Was great to present to the University of Canberra today in studying Software Development. Great turnout and if any of the students want to fire me any questions from todays session – happy to answer them – comments on this post are fine .
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Awesome TED talk on happiness
I’d classify/tag this as off-topic but the reality over the quarter of a century in my professional life in IT, I’ve worked out one thing – you are working/coding better when you are happy. This is about the best video I’ve come across on the subject. I actually found it on c-sharpcorner.com for the record.
7DRL dates for 2018 (3-11 March)
Great news – once of the best game jams is back – so if you want to build a roguelike in 7 days – this is a great great jam to have a go:
http://7drl.org/2018/01/08/7drl-2018-dates-announced-for-3-11-march/
Great Developer Networking event in Canberra next week @Xero
For any developers in Canberra interested : https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/canberra-local-developers-networking-event-tickets-42449531692
Jan 24 Canberra Junior Dev Meetup
7DRL 2018 dates announced
[Off Topic] The Ultimate Nightwatchman
I love cricket. So the following post is about Cricket but also has a lot to do with leadership.
This week there was an interesting cricket event in Australia. Late on the first day of the 5th test David Bairstow was sent in to bat with only a few balls remaining. This decision seemed unusual given the general practice of a team to send in a “Nightwatchman” late on a day of cricket.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwatchman_(cricket)
This practice in four-five day cricket encourages a less talented batsman to occupy the crease while the more The Nightwatchman’s job is simple: survive as long as possible to prevent one of the more talented batsman from coming in to bat late on a day when all that can really happen is score a few runs at best or get out. Even if the Nightwatchman is removed on the very first ball he/she faces they will have soaked up between 5-10 minutes simply by the change of batsman taking. Towards the end of days cricket this can often be enough to end the day and have the “real” batsman come back fresh on the next day.
So Bairstow comes in to bat and everyone is surprised. He’s decide to bat by himself.
In this case he knew what would happen if . Against the failing light of the late day and fearsome pace of Mitchell Starc even a good batsman would struggle. The chance of being hit on the body is quite likely given previous games. He took the responsibility for his team – he took ownership for being a batsman.
Bairstow got out. End of the day – stumps were called.
Bairstow’s team knows what he did. The Media thinks Bairstow made a mistake.
The ashes were over!!!
Bairstow’s team knows what he did, what he will do again.
Great list of dev conferences in Australia
https://github.com/Readify/DevEvents
Massive thanks to Alex Mackey for sending this on 🙂
Awesome article on Mentors
Just an outstanding article on how to use and manage mentors 🙂
Nice short summary on SCRUM
good, concise overview on scrum – really useful for junior devs who have not seen it before
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/scrum-framework-5-events-in-scrum-framework/