Train yourself or perish: Archive

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Leading vs. Managing in a Scrum Environment →

Transforming a traditional work environment to SCRUM is not an easy task. There are a lot of perils, a lot of ego and a lot of misunderstandings. Overall this article reflects what I always tell people: To balance out responsibilities and powers and trust people to do their best, not to try and tell them what and how to do. Worth reading!

Mar 24th

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The startup owners manual at SXSW 2012. Slides in the movie

Mar 12th

Mar 1st

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Apple's product development process →

It gives me a certain ambivalent feeling whenever anybody talks about how Apple does things, what is the key to their success. Most of the time they take the path seldom taken. It’s hard to judge whether or not it would work for you or just an abomination because, well because the path they take is so radically different. But in this case I think there are certain lessons we can take home...

Mar 1st

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How To Get People To Do What You Want →

Until I was only the “managed” side of things I saw things very differently. When I landed on the “managing” side, I quickly started to realize it is much harder than you think. Here are great tips I learned the hard way but shared by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan.

Feb 28th

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InSync: A tool to Dropbox-ify your GDocs account →

Are you working with Googe Docs? Have a lot of shared document? Or maybe you just want to (or have to) store your documents in GDocs? Try InSync! This nifty tool basically synchronises your GDocs to your hard drive, just like Dropbox does. Go grab it!

Feb 12th

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Outsourcing is tricky; five tips to ease the pain →

If you ever worked in an outsource environment (either as outsourcer or outsourcee), you know how difficult it is and even considered giving up doing it ever again. Starters think this is as easy as working in an office setting face to face. But soon the problems they never even expect, like misunderstandings, less trust, sometimes cultural and language barrier, start creeping in. So here are...

Jan 24th

VC money you're after? Read this then! →

This article on TechCrunch explain some basics nicely in the world of VC money. Although this is not a how-to, gives a glimpse into the setting from the entrepreneur’s perspective.

Jan 18th

Easy user testing done cheap →

At one point you need to test how people really getting along on your web property or service, even if you’re a genius in user experience design. This is where YouEye comes handy, letting you connect with willing testers who - with the tools from YouEye - can give you surprising results.

Dec 14th

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A/B testing done smart and easy →

I just started using this, but so far, no problem with it and it was a breeze to set it up. Just a JS file added to the landing pages you want to A/B test and you are ready to create the variations!

Dec 13th

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Real-time web analytics →

This tool looks good for simple, real time analytics (for most of us, it’s enough).

Dec 12th

Project confidence; It's not that you can't learn... →

Often to achieve something you need to go out and convince people that what you want is what they want. One of the must have tool in everybody’s belt should be confident and calm behavior. This great article helps you learn how to act like that, event if you’re not James Bond.

Nov 30th

SCRUM? Kanban? You don't get it. →

Recently there a “revolution” led by people who barely understand what they are against nor do they know what exactly they are advocating for in software development. Here’s an article I found collecting a lot of good thoughts on what’s what.

Nov 25th

Those who live in the US, please consider joining this if you love services like @YouTube and @Ustream. http://t.co/lgLupjIS #StopSOPA

Nov 17th

Extending developer teams →

A great short article on what problems we face if we want to increase the size of a developer team.

Nov 11th

Aug 22nd

Handling a team member who “talks too much” →

I’m pretty sure we all know somebody who talks too much and interrupts others, or just downright chokes other colleagues’ thoughts. Hell I even was once such a person. So here are a couple of tricks you can use to avoid the unfortunate situation of hurting somebody while stopping the fervent talker of the group.

Aug 1st

How can I push the software development team to go... →

Some great ways to understand your team and bring out the best they have never even know they can do.

Aug 1st

Jul 24th

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Jul 24th

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zzz-folder: No talkin’ while I’m shoppin’ that’s the #1 rule!

Jul 24th

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Jul 23rd

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Jul 23rd

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I became a Premium Member on Ustream.tv! http://t.co/3kwvpzU via @ustream

May 26th

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Surprising usability and social psychology facts →

A couple of these facts are really astounding. This just further reinforce me that people usually don’t know what they really want or how they work.

May 24th

Rapid UI prototyping application with actions and... →

Feb 19th

How To Use Windows as a TimeCapsule for Mac's Time... →

Feb 16th

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world:...”

– Tom Bodett

Feb 9th

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How To Pay Down Technical Debt in SCRUM →

Dec 16th

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JIRA 3 plugin development environment howto

It’s quite hard to set up a JIRA 3 plugin development environment now, after JIRA 4 has been released. But the maven-based JIRA 4 PDK can be used to bootstrap such an environment. Here’s how! 1) Download the JIRA 4 PDK and unzip. 2) Set up the path as it’s described on the PDK page 3) Run the jira plugin skeleton creator in a fresh directory: atlassian-create-jira-plugin 4)...

Dec 13th

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Apple Developer Connection: Monitoring File... →

Sep 3rd

This office is a lipreader’s paradise…

Aug 31st

(HU) Qpakoli: a Schönherz - Fővárosi blog →

Mátrix és egyáb fényjátékok

Aug 15th

Okado AS - How to use itunes music visualizers in... →

Aug 1st

http://bit.ly/az6GEY A magyar médiát félti a Washington Post. - Én meg a saját bőrömet kezdem el félteni…

Jul 20th

Jul 15th

jQuery Fundamentals →

Jun 28th

HTML5 Vuvuzela http://people.opera.com/danield/html5/vuvuzela/

Jun 26th

http://is.gd/d4uCr Kid: “We are just watching some porn” Dad: “Hope you’re not doing java and open source” #awesome (via @chx1975)

Jun 26th

Court Says It’s Okay To Remove Content From The Public Domain And Put It Back Under Copyright http://ur1.ca/0bd65 (via @alexboly)

Jun 23rd

What you get for making a baby: http://droid242.soup.io/post/61757605/image (via @vsbmeza)

Jun 23rd

Now I know what rap (in music) means: (R)etards (A)ttempting (P)oetry!

Jun 22nd

HYDRA vs. Pandemic Legion going to be the final match! http://bit.ly/97g9bv #eve #at8 #tweetfleet

Jun 20th

EVE Alliance Tournament 8 semi-finals are live! http://bit.ly/97g9bv #eve #at8 #tweetfleet

Jun 19th

RT @Under30CEO: What to do after going to a networking event http://bit.ly/c8hdF3 (via @RaduTiciu)

Jun 17th

RT @JerryWeinberg: When managers don’t understand the work, they tend to reward the appearance of work.(via @alexboly)

Jun 17th

RT @god: Dear followers, I am deeply sorry for creating Justin Bieber. What started as a joke between me & Moses has gone too far.

Jun 17th

Vuvuzela article on Wikipedia http://i.imgur.com/CGbjS.png #fun #soccer #worldcup

Jun 16th