Richard Peck

Today's job, new CPU & heatsink, unfortunately it means taking everything out including the motherboard! :(

https://plus.google.com/photos/100532543467297454697/albums/6552831970373527409?authkey=CK-45uWm-JufogE

* C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\

Very handy article - "BCD and Drysuit Inflators are pretty simple valves that most divers can figure out but not all valves are the same or universal"

https://www.simplyscuba.com/blogs/blog/which-inflator-hose-do-i-need

This resonates very strongly with me.

Well worth a read by everyone regardless whether you consider yourself introvert or extrovert.

(more of a sliding scale really rather than one or the other)

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/working-with-introverts

Critics be damned, I really enjoyed #Bright on Netflix​

www.netflix.com/title/80119234?source=android

http://www.netflix.com/title/80119234?source=android

Good explanation of Ethereum Gas & Gwai.

Interesting to find the Unit Map scale for Ether:

var unitMap = {

'wei': '1',

'kwei': '1000',

'ada': '1000',

'femtoether': '1000',

'mwei': '1000000',

'babbage': '1000000',

'picoether': '1000000',

'gwei': '1000000000',

'shannon': '1000000000',

'nanoether': '1000000000',

'nano': '1000000000',

'szabo': '1000000000000',

'microether': '1000000000000',

'micro': '1000000000000',

'finney': '1000000000000000',

'milliether': '1000000000000000',

'milli': '1000000000000000',

'ether': '1000000000000000000',

'kether': '1000000000000000000000',

'grand': '1000000000000000000000',

'einstein': '1000000000000000000000',

'mether': '1000000000000000000000000',

'gether': '1000000000000000000000000000',

'tether': '1000000000000000000000000000000'

};

from https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js/blob/0.15.0/lib/utils/utils.js#L40

https://steemit.com/ethereum/@tomshwom/ethereum-gas-how-it-works

Last July I went to a http://www.MeetUp.com/Agile-North-East event where Clarke Ching (http://www.rolls.rocks/) spoke about applying the Theory of Constraints (TOC) to software development and how it leads to a more naturally agile way of working.

During the talk he promoted his book ‘Rolling Rocks Downhill’ (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25460979-rolling-rocks-downhill) with discount codes and signed physical copies – I ended up getting an #Audible version of the book (https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Non-fiction/Rolling-Rocks-Downhill-Audiobook/B01DYS9V22) and I’ve finally got around to listening to it (I have Audible hooked up to the Amazon #Echo; in the mornings when I’m getting ready for work I just ask “#Alexa, continue reading the book from Audible”).

I’m only 10 chapters in so far (& it’ll take a while to finish it at only 15 minutes or so per day) but already I can heartily recommend it.

For a book about agile development it’s surprisingly engaging. It’s written in the form of a fictional story, rather than a non-fiction reference manual.

The setting is a financial services organisation who are dealing with a huge legacy core platform that touches everything and is difficult to update. They are working on an extremely high profile do-or-die project that will affect the business fundamentally and it’s already running late… which suddenly has to launch on an impossible deadline.

#Finally a SmartThings Device Handler from NodOn to get their remote control buttons to work!

Wall Switch - CWS-3-1-0x

OCTAN Remote - CRC-3-1-0x

Soft Remote - CRC-3-6-0x

https://blog.nodon.fr/en/2017/11/adding-a-nodon-remote-controller-to-smartthings/

#Scrum Artifact - Sprint Backlog -

We've been missing the "at least one [...] process improvement":

"The Sprint Backlog makes visible all the work that the Development Team identifies as necessary

to meet the Sprint Goal. To ensure continuous improvement, it includes at least one high

priority process improvement identified in the previous Retrospective meeting."

Retrospectives quickly stopped because they were just forums of unrest and dissatisfaction which repeatedly highlighted areas of frustration that never changed.

http://scrumguides.org/

I found out last night that the co-creators of Scrum have just released an update to the official guide/definition last week (7th November):

http://www.scrumguides.org/

Info about change:

* https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/scrum-guide-update-november-2017

* https://www.scruminc.com/scrum-guide-revision-webinar/

and as it says in the guide it’s self:

“Scrum’s roles, events, artifacts, and rules are immutable and although implementing only parts of Scrum is possible, the result is not Scrum.”

i.e. if you don’t do it by the book, whatever it is that you are doing, it’s not Scrum!

http://www.scrumguides.org/

Great decorations at work today!

https://plus.google.com/photos/100532543467297454697/albums/6478529050384908289?authkey=CNyP6_ySx8KUNw

Handy if you're using #JIRA ...

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/jql-secrets-and-shortcuts?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rss&jobid=102764977&subscriberid=1287852310

#AVRant a Fantastic Podcast that deserves a listen if you've not heard them yet & your support if you like what you hear!

https://patreon.com/avrantpodcast?utm_medium=social&utm_source=googleplus&utm_campaign=creatorshare