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Personal Kaizen
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About me
• Hibernate team member w/ focus on Validator and Search• +10 years experience in software development➡ Worked for small (10), medium (100) and big (3000+) companies ➡ Everything from Team Lead to System Administrator ➡ Developed in C++, Perl, Ruby, ... and of course Java
• Want to be a Software Craftsman
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• 改 “kai” = change/make better
• 善 "zen" = good
改善
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• 改 “kai” = change/make better
• 善 "zen" = good
改善
• 改 善 “kaizen” = (continuous) improvement
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Need to understand bits & bytes and ourselves!Tuesday, October 25, 11
Dreyfus Model
Competent
Proficient
Expert
Advanced Beginner
Novice
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Dreyfus Model
Competent
Proficient
Expert
Advanced Beginner
Novice
10 years
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Dreyfus Model
Competent
Proficient
Expert
Advanced Beginner
Novice
10 years
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Dreyfus Model
Competent
Proficient
Expert
Advanced Beginner
Novice
10 years
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Practice Practice Practice
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Know your basic tools
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Resurrect deleted files
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Resurrect deleted files
$ git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- foo.txt
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Resurrect deleted files
$ git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- foo.txt
b193eecf895e45b4f875eb4e6030f2c2e9fac897
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Resurrect deleted files
$ git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- foo.txt
$ git checkout b193eecf895e45^ -- foo.txt
b193eecf895e45b4f875eb4e6030f2c2e9fac897
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Know your bash ;-)
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Find all jar files in your JBoss installation containing a given class
Problem
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for i in `find . -name "*.jar"`; do count=$(jar -tvf $i | grep -c "MyClass") ; if [ "$count" -gt "0" ]; then echo "Match in $i" ; fi; done
Possible solution
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Possible solution
function findClass() { for i in `find $1 -name "*.jar"`; do count=$(jar -tvf $i | grep -c "$2") ; if [ "$count" -gt "0" ]; then echo "Match in $i" ; fi; done}
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Keep solutions log!
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Know your resources
•refcardz.dzone.com•stackoverflow.com
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From Novice to Expert
Competent
Proficient
Expert
Advanced Beginner
Novice
Relevant Focus
Considers Everything
Intuition
Rules
Part of System
Detached Observer
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L + R modes
CPU #1
linear, slow non-linear, fast
shared bus
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L and R characteristics
• Verbal• Analytic• Symbolic• Abstract• Rational• Logical
L
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L and R characteristics
• Verbal• Analytic• Symbolic• Abstract• Rational• Logical
L
• Non-verbal• Synthetic • Concrete• Analogic• Non-rational• Intuitive
R
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• Remember the Milk• Mindmaps• Pen and notepad
Capture insight 24x7
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Feed the R mode • Try to find and use metaphors • Free-Form Journaling➡ Write Drunk, Revise Sober➡ Morning Pages Technique➡ Fieldstone method
• Change your routines➡ Change your neural wiring
• Go for a walk!
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Feed the R mode • Try to find and use metaphors • Free-Form Journaling➡ Write Drunk, Revise Sober➡ Morning Pages Technique➡ Fieldstone method
• Change your routines➡ Change your neural wiring
• Go for a walk!
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Tuesday, October 25, 11
Friedrich August Kekule
Benzene
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Thomas Edison
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Thomas Edison
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Q + A
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Want to know more?
• Pragmatic Thinking & Learning, Andy Hunt• Practices of an Agile Developer, Venkat Subramaniam • My Job Went to India, Chad Fowler• Software Craftsmanship, Pete McBreen
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Links
• http://refcardz.dzone.com• http://stackoverflow.com• http://www.javaspecialists.eu• http://www.rememberthemilk.com• http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar
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