- Lanyrd no longer requires write access to your Twitter account | The Lanyrd Blog
Improving trust with Lanyrd users: "Today we've changed the way we handle Twitter permissions. We now ask for read-only permission the first time you sign in, and only ask to upgrade to write access later on when you do something that needs it; for example following someone on Twitter from the our attendee directory." (trust security lanyrd twitter )
- Why I won’t be using Menshn, and you shouldn’t either — European technology news
"When Menshn — a new “topical chat” service intended to rival Twitter, started by U.K. politician Louise Mensch — launched on Tuesday, I went to take a look. And almost immediately the site, which effectively allows to engage in Twitter-like conversations about pre-determined political topics, had me grinding my teeth." (twitter politics launch startup louise_mensch menshn )
- Real World Academia: Unit testing isn’t enough. You need static typing too.
"For [my] research I wanted to test the frequently cited claim by proponents of dynamically typed programming languages that static typing was not needed for detecting bugs in programs. [...] The results of this experiment indicate that unit testing is not an adequate replacement for static typing for defect detection." (programming research dopost testing unit_testing )
- Business Model Canvas – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Business Model Canvas is a strategic management template for developing new or documenting existing business models. It is a visual chart with elements describing a firm's value proposition, infrastructure, customers, and finances[1]. It assists firms in aligning their activities by illustrating potential trade-offs." (tool business_models )
- Riding the Paradigm – where agile meets programme | Government Digital Service
"[At the Cabinet Office and GDS] we have a pretty established and successful agile software delivery engine. Whilst it is relatively new it has become a firmly established way of working beyond the core delivery teams, and lean/agile methods are used across GDS in a variety of teams. However, we interact with other programmes and projects and need to be accountable when we spend public money. That gives us a challenge in terms of needing heavier processes and being able to articulate what we do in good old milestone, cost and risk ways." (dopost agile gds programme_management )
- Daring Fireball: Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place
"Microsoft Surface is not fundamentally about Microsoft needing to control the entire integrated product in order to compete with the iPad on design. It’s about Microsoft needing to sell the whole thing to sustain its current profitability." (business_strategy dopost analysis tablets apple microsoft_surface microsoft )
- Salesman (film) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The documentary follows four salesmen as they travel across New England and southeast Florida trying to sell expensive Bibles door-to-door in low-income neighborhoods and attend a meeting in Chicago. The film focuses in particular on the struggles of salesman Paul Brennan, a middle-aged Irish-American Catholic from Jamaica Plain, Boston, who struggles to maintain his sales." (religion sales documentary film )
- ‘Gone Fishing’ – An Agile Game – Are you a zero sum thinker? | Value, Flow, Quality
Fun for all the (corporate) family: "As part of the VFQ Education product, we get to design hundreds of activities and challenges for our courses. One of the most controversial has always been the 'Gone Fishing' game. We have had to rewrite it a few times, to improve the instructions, but also to get across its subtle learning points." (emergn game competition dopost agile )
- 10 ways to avoid penalty fares on trains – News – Evening Standard
"But what most people do not know – and what the train companies are understandably reluctant for us to find out – is that more than a few demands for penalty fares are arguably illegal. [...] Because you do, in fact, have quite extensive rights not to be charged penalty fares, many of them set out in law." (advice trains legal )
- Concepts in Objective-C Programming: About the Basic Programming Concepts for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch
(reference programming_language objective_c ios apple )
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