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Backlogs considered harmful

There are somethings we do under the pretense of being useful that are actually harmful. Unscheduled stories and bug reports in your ticket tracking system are an example. Creating a ticket is easy when you are in the moment. However, once produced these artifacts have to be read and understood multiple times in the future. [...]

Negative results matter! http://www.arjournals.com

Javascript

From the coffeescript homepage: Underneath all of those embarrassing braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. That sums up my feelings about javascript almost exactly.

Any one know of a good javascript bbd/spec framework that works on rhino? So far i am underwhelmed.

How do you teach a 7 year old to stop snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?

Tabarrok’s Wager: http://mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/Pascal%27sWager.pdf (h/t Marginal Revolution)

white snow on green grass; joy and anticipation; winter arrives soon

rspec-mode.el and shoulda-mode.el now support RVM.

Saml SP announce

Saml-sp provides support for being a SAML 2.0 service provider in an HTTP artifact binding SSO conversation. Synopsis This library provides parsing of SAML 2.0 artifacts. For example. artifact = Saml2::Type4Artifact.new_from_string(params['SAMLart']) # => #<Saml2::Type4Artifact …> artifact.source_id # => 'a314Xc8KaSd4fEJAd8R' artifact.type_code # => 4 Once you have an artifact you can resolve it into it’s associated [...]

Interesting, and scary, facts: http://www.worldometers.info/