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	<title>Not Waving But ...</title>
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	<description>Does any of it make any sense?</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>An Erlang Stock Exchange</title>
		<link>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2007/11/11/an-erlang-stock-exchange/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Software Development</category>
	<category>erlang</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well this is very interesting.  A highly concurrent, safely distributed, dynamically updateable, highly reliable platform is just what is needed for a stock exchange or ECN (which is really just a less regulated exchange for other assets anyway).
Of course it will not help in a lot of areas.  One of the irritating problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A basic mutable state in an Erlang process</title>
		<link>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2007/08/20/a-basic-mutable-state-in-an-erlang-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		
	<category>erlang</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been feeling a bit dense and struggling with a problem of how to change the state  of a running process in Erlang.  The problem was that Erlang is a Functional language that  only allows single assignment.  The solution to holding state in Functional languages is (apparently, to keep the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raven and JRake merging</title>
		<link>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2007/02/04/raven-and-jrake-merging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Software Development</category>
	<category>Technology</category>
	<category>Ruby</category>
	<category>Java</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been following Matthiou Rieu&#8217;s Raven project using Rake and Gems to improve the Java build experience.  Now he and Matthew Foemmel  have got together to merge Raven and JRake.
I have high hopes for this and will be watching developments with interest.

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		<title>Test your Logging - Another &#8220;Doh!!&#8221; moment</title>
		<link>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2007/02/04/test-your-logging-another-doh-moment/</link>
		<comments>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2007/02/04/test-your-logging-another-doh-moment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Software Development</category>
	<category>Process</category>
	<category>Java</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do hate it when I&#8217;ve been dense.  I hate it even more when I have been smugly dense.
I have always had a thing about applications producing to much logging.  Generally a production log line should only be produced if it is needed.  That is if someone is going to look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Continous Improvement Meta-process</title>
		<link>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2007/01/03/the-continous-improvement-meta-process/</link>
		<comments>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2007/01/03/the-continous-improvement-meta-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Process</category>
	<category>People</category>
	<category>Technology</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just read  this  article about Toyota&#8217;s continuous improvement culture.  The article is very inspiring, I recommend it.  The conclusion highlights a crucial point; one that is, I believe, the source of many of the problems introducing agile approaches.
&#8220;People who join Toyota from other companies, it&#8217;s a big shift for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agile Practices can undermine agile principles</title>
		<link>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2006/11/18/agile-practices-can-undermine-agile-principles/</link>
		<comments>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2006/11/18/agile-practices-can-undermine-agile-principles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Process</category>
	<category>People</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a post about context switching Dmitri Zimine inadvertently shows  how a strong commitment to specific Agile Practices can undermine the agile principles.
The story is how a development iteration was screwed up by the organisation&#8217;s attempts to expedite an unexpected request from Sales.  The story is hypothetical and is there to make a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asking for the wrong things</title>
		<link>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2006/11/06/asking-for-the-wrong-things/</link>
		<comments>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2006/11/06/asking-for-the-wrong-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Process</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people ask for repeatable and efficient development processes.  One of the biggest arguments against many of the agile practices is that they introduce inefficiencies:
&#8220;Refactor the codebase? But it is more efficient to just do it right the first time.
&#8220;Write tests while I code? But its more efficient to write them afterwards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operational Tools and Habits</title>
		<link>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2006/11/05/operational-tools-and-habits/</link>
		<comments>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2006/11/05/operational-tools-and-habits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 15:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Uncategorized</category>
	<category>Software Development</category>
	<category>Process</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a (partial) list of operational tools and habits that I have found extremely useful in the past:

One Click deployment:  Each component of the system must be deployable in a fully automated fashion.  There must be NO manual steps, a checklist is not good enough.  If you can transparently audit it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Estimates (why the Map is not the territory)</title>
		<link>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2006/11/05/locking-down-uncertainty/</link>
		<comments>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2006/11/05/locking-down-uncertainty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Software Development</category>
	<category>Process</category>
	<category>People</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been following JP&#8217;s musings on Project Management and Communication focusing on estimation and reporting.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. : Richard Feynman
In my last entry I discussed the social reasons why I felt that a lot of projects miss their deadlines. Here is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth?! You can&#8217;t handle the Truth!</title>
		<link>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2006/10/15/truth-you-cant-handle-the-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://notwaving.net/wordpress/2006/10/15/truth-you-cant-handle-the-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Software Development</category>
	<category>Process</category>
	<category>People</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Reflections beyond technology Stephen points out that in projects
&#8220;denial  trumps rationality with alarming frequency!&#8221;.  This is undoubtably the case. Reality is cold, hard and obdurate. Once it arrives you have to deal with it.
Some people have a habit of leaving bills unopened (or just throwing them away), why do they do that? [...]]]></description>
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