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| The Latest from Handwaving | MORE | | Distributed Performance Tracing Nevertheless, this is very useful stuff and I wouldn’t want to run a production system without these profile traces. I stumbled on this paper from Google describing Dapper, a distributed performance monitoring system (aka profiler) for their entire infrastructure. For any distributed system, even simple client/server systems, it is useful to measure performance across services & tiers. For example, in a distributed system service A may call B and C, B calls D and E, C calls F. All these calls form an acyclic graph. The basic idea is quite simple. Technology Handwaving - Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Housekeeping Productivity Cleaning services charge $120 to clean my 1300 sq.ft. apartment in 3 hours. However, they strike me as unproductive because they don’t provide their employees with the right equipment. There are many tasks which can’t be optimized, e.g. clearing clutter, making beds, folding and putting away clothes. But there are some tasks which can be sped up if they invest in the right equipment. For example, something like the Shark steamers could be used to quickly clean floors, bathtubs, counters, windows and other flat surfaces. All the cleaners I’ve hired so far have done these manually. Business Handwaving - Tuesday, February 15, 2011 McAfee screws me again Today’s lesson: uninstall all McAfee products and never install their crappy software again. After suffering terrible problems with McAfee I replaced it a year ago with Microsoft Security Essentials. All was well. Recently I upgraded Flash, where it by default included McAfee Security Scan Plus. thought this was a one time security scan, which seemed OK to me. later noticed that MS Security Essentials was stuck in “Search” mode while downloading an update. Also, VMware’s Unity mode no longer seemed to work. Some searching yielded the default advice to remove conflicting virus scanner. Handwaving - Saturday, October 23, 2010 | | The Best from Handwaving | MORE | | Distributed Performance Tracing Nevertheless, this is very useful stuff and I wouldn’t want to run a production system without these profile traces. I stumbled on this paper from Google describing Dapper, a distributed performance monitoring system (aka profiler) for their entire infrastructure. For any distributed system, even simple client/server systems, it is useful to measure performance across services & tiers. For example, in a distributed system service A may call B and C, B calls D and E, C calls F. All these calls form an acyclic graph. The basic idea is quite simple. Technology Handwaving - Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Housekeeping Productivity Cleaning services charge $120 to clean my 1300 sq.ft. apartment in 3 hours. However, they strike me as unproductive because they don’t provide their employees with the right equipment. There are many tasks which can’t be optimized, e.g. clearing clutter, making beds, folding and putting away clothes. But there are some tasks which can be sped up if they invest in the right equipment. For example, something like the Shark steamers could be used to quickly clean floors, bathtubs, counters, windows and other flat surfaces. All the cleaners I’ve hired so far have done these manually. Business Handwaving - Tuesday, February 15, 2011 McAfee screws me again Today’s lesson: uninstall all McAfee products and never install their crappy software again. After suffering terrible problems with McAfee I replaced it a year ago with Microsoft Security Essentials. All was well. Recently I upgraded Flash, where it by default included McAfee Security Scan Plus. thought this was a one time security scan, which seemed OK to me. later noticed that MS Security Essentials was stuck in “Search” mode while downloading an update. Also, VMware’s Unity mode no longer seemed to work. Some searching yielded the default advice to remove conflicting virus scanner. Handwaving - Saturday, October 23, 2010 | - Employment is a lagging indicator
More importantly, productivity has improved strongly year over year and corporate profits are up enormously. The newspapers and talking heads are obsessed with unemployment numbers, yet they fail to grasp that this is the last thing that will improve after a recession. If and when people believe the economy will improve, businesses will have a stockpile of cash to spend and hire people. There are still lots of problems with the economy, but this obsession with unemployment is looking at the wrong thing. Handwaving - Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - Is Twitter worth $1?
If people are using Twitter to promote themselves and their products, then they should pay for that privilege. I don’t get Twitter. like their original idea of broadcasting text messages to a group of friends, but their current incarnation is to blast vapid celebrity comments to thousands of sheeple. My metric for a useful business is, “Would you buy it for a dollar ?” If Pandora or GMail or Yahoo Finance forced me to cough up $1/month, I would definitely pay. When Jott removed their free plans, 30% of their customers were willing to pay $4/month (not me). Handwaving - Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - Second Mover Advantage
The problem with being a first mover is (1) you have to create everything yourself and (2) you have to convince customers to take a chance on your crazy new product. This article (and this one) pokes a hole in the idea that there’s a sustainable first-mover advantage for businesses. That is, being the first search engine or social networking service did not give those innovators any advantage in the market; in fact, most of those first generation companies are gone (Excite & SixDegrees). This strikes me as obvious, yet VCs insist that being first to market is critically important. Handwaving - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - NYTimes to erect paywall
At this stage, our plan is to introduce the metered model as a stand-alone product. The NYTimes has finally decided to move to a subscription model for their website, modeled on the Financial Times. This article does not mention an interesting nugget that was in the memo to the NYTimes staff: “There has also been much speculation in the media and elsewhere about whether The Times will join a consortium as part of the metered model implementation plan. As I suggested earlier , more sites should join a potential NYTimes consortium. Handwaving - Sunday, January 24, 2010 - Product ratings should be high
It reminded me of this article , which says the average rating for products and movies, at lots of different sites, is around 4.3 Same goes for books and products and restaurants. buy electronic products after reading the reviews on Newegg and studying the specs. Most people use a similar suite of filters to pick a movie, book, or product; therefore, they will generally be pleased with what they get. I recently signed up for a Netflix trial account and rated around 300 movies. out of 5. Here’s a post from Youtube showing that most ratings are 5s. Another from Yelp. Handwaving - Monday, January 11, 2010 - Scientific Evaluation of Programming Languages
Unfortunately, the entire conference rests on a single problem: how to measure programmer productivity. Except for pointy-haired bosses , most software professionals believe productivity can not be accurately measured. A new workshop at OOPSLA is aimed at finding ways to evaluate the effectiveness of programming languages and tools. This workshop will likely be yet another outlet for HCI research with awful methodologies. Handwaving - Thursday, August 13, 2009 - Pigovian Tax on Meat
There is finally a growing recognition that the industrialized production of meat is bad for people and the planet. pollution) a Pigovian tax is used to add the social costs to that product’s price. The negative externalities include production of greenhouse gases and undermining our security interests by sending too much money to unfriendly countries. By adding a tax and/or removing agricultural subsidies for meat production, it raises the price to match the real total cost of a double cheeseburger. When something has a significant negative externality (e.g. Handwaving - Friday, March 27, 2009 %>
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | Agile Clinic: Dear Allan, we have a little problem with Agile. Could it be that the Product Owners are not sufficiently flexible in what they are asking for and are therefore setting the team up to fail each sprint? 'Consider this blog an Agile Clinic. On Friday an e-mail dropped into my mailbox asking if I could help. The sender has graciously agreed to let me share the mail and my advice with you, all anonymously of course… The sender is new to the team, new to the company, they are developing a custom web app for a client, i.e. they are an ESP or consultancy. the Developers work in sprints, estimating tasks in JIRA as they go. And yo have Jira? Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, April 28, 2013 A Roundup of MongoDB Management Tools The data is a great asset when optimizing applications during development and potentially invaluable when diagnosing production issues. 'I’ve been working with MongoDB for a long time now. Back in the early days, there really were no management tools analogous to RDBMS tools (e.g. SQL Server Management Studio ). Since then, things have changed significantly. It’s time to look around and see what management / monitoring tooling is around these days for MongoDB. The news is good. There are many different options to choose depending on your platform and use-cases. link]. link]. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Monday, April 22, 2013 Requirements and Specifications 'As I was saying in my last blog, I’m preparing for a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” So now I turned to a standard textbook on requirements: Discovering Requirements: How to Specify Products and Services by Alexander and Beus-Dukis. which I should just have entitled it “Requirements: Whose job are they anyway?” and so I’ve been giving a lot of thought to requirements. Bear with me, I’ll come back to this point at the end.) So I turned to my bookshelves…. turned to the index and…. nothing. Which bring us back to BDD. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 | -
| The Best from DevelopMentor | MORE | - Product Management an open secret, a differenciator
At the Skills Matter Agile Lean Kanban exchange the other week someone - sorry I missed you name - told me about a report from the BBC on Product Management. It turns out the report is from a branch of the BBC I didn’t know about, “BBC Academy” and it entitled “The State of Product Management 2010.” Its well worth reading if you have an interest in Product Management or the UK software development scene. Although I’ve not blogged about it for a while Product Management is one of my passions. In Silicon Valley there is a well developed role called the Product Manager. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - Minimal Viable Team to create a Minimally Viable Product
Despite being a bit of a mouthful to say “Minimal Viable Product” and the even more difficult to say “Minimally Marketable Feature” (also known as a “Quantum of Value” or “Business Value Increment”) are very useful concepts. What makes gives them killer power is that they speak to a secret belief held by many people (not just managers) that teams gold-plate development and create products with more than is needed. The same applies to product development: saying Yes to a feature is easy, saying No is hard, but unless you say No a lot more than Yes you won’t have a MVP. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, October 8, 2012 - Productivity Power Tools 2012 – February 2012
A new update to Productivity Power Tools 2012! This update includes a couple of bug fixes including a crashing bug in the Custom Document Tab Well on debug. Download now! Link: [link]. Download: ProPowerTools.vsix. Visual Studio 2012 DevelopMentor Courses - Monday, February 25, 2013 - Query composition with the ASP.NET Web API
12: public Product Get( int id). Loading the products with the original URL returns exactly the same result as before. This request “ [link] ” returns only product 11 to 15 ordered by the product name. Having the ASP.NET Web API as a REST service returning data is kind of nice but to be efficient on the wire we don’t want to return more data that required only to discard it in the client. As we have seen in a previous post just returning a collection data was real easy. As it turns out changing the service so the client can filter data is almost just as easy. 13: {. The Problem Solver - Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - EF4 compared to NHibernate
On the other side, NH is a much a more mature ORM product than EF and has better batching capabilities. It is also more extensible, especially as an open-source product. The end result will be greater parity between the two products going forward, making the choice even more challenging and determined mostly by philosophical and strategic factors. Last week while teaching my new LINQ and Entity Framework course I got a question asking me to compare EF4 with NHibernate. Not having worked extensively with NHibernate, I wasn’t in a position to address the question. Tony and Zuzana's World - Wednesday, January 13, 2010 %>
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