Measuring a blog's success: focus on conversations, not page views

The Complete GitHub Logging Research: How the World’s Top Companies Choose How and What to Log
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Tools and resources for naming things.

Practical guide for the most powerful editor for DevOps

Das Kleinschneiden von Anforderungen in User Stories die innerhalb eines Sprints umgesetzt werden können kann sehr erklärbedürftig sein. Selbst erfahrene Product Owner kommen immer wieder an eine Stelle an der sie Schwierigkeiten bekommen. Für die von mir gecoachten POs habe ich irgendwann begonnen eine Übersicht zu erstellen nach welchen Kriterien man das Messer ansetzen kann. Sie ist sicher noch nicht vollständig, hat aber einigen Teams weiterhelfen können.

Over my years with agile, I’ve discovered nine patterns for splitting user stories into good, smaller stories.

Why do we sleep? We spend a third of our lives in slumber, but science has yet to determine exactly why we have do it. Here’s a look at how sleep works, why we’re not getting enough sleep, what happens if you DON’T sleep, and an idea about where sleep came from in the first place.

This video is all about using incremental search to navigate through your emacs buffers.

My mantra to keep the head above the info water is: PACMAN. Or rather PACMan: Plan-Act-Capture-Manage. PACMan helps you eat information nuggets all along the way and keep going happily, while fixing filter failures letting phantoms through. It has a lot to do with personal knowledge management (PKM) so perhaps it should be called PaKMan 😉

(Work in progress.) Tools for monitoring systems and applications, especially in the Java EE environment. Monitoring needs Metric collection – collection of metrics from different machines, s…

We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response.

The new Java release train means that there will be a new release of Java every six months. And when the next release comes out, the previous release is obsolete.

Writing performance reviews with positive constructive feedback

At Affectv we use a wide range of editors: Sublime, Atom, Emacs, Pycharm, IntelliJ... Actually only two people use the same editor! As suc...

Devops, Scrum, Kanban, Pair-Programming – diese Methoden sind bei Startups längst fest etabliert. Was aber, wenn ein deutscher Traditionskonzern wie Volkswagen auf agile Methoden setzt? Wir haben uns vor Ort angeschaut, wie gut das funktioniert.