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The day started curiously as I was waiting for the 57, where I came across a quaint wannabe bus driver from Somalia. Naturally, I asked him why he had opted for life over here in Canada. “Here the supermarkets don’t sell bullets side by side with the vegetables”, was his honest reply. I never did [...]
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Autumnal Equinox
It seems that just a breath ago you hung, suspended sideways on the playground swing, in weightless sun, to peer across the bar to distant shady green.
And now, blood-draining rush, too fast, too soon, the skin drags down your face in hurtle past the ground toward that shadowed gloom.
This moment marks the midpoint, just, between [...]
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Revisiting to get it right
When you’re on the stage and the curtain rises, it is easy to appreciate the value of getting it right the first time. If you’re well-prepared and on your game, you can be a star, if not, you’re a soon-forgotten nobody.
Early software development embraced the “get it right the first time” approach, following general engineering [...]
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Latte art
Check out the art from the “2007 World Latte Art Champion, Jack Hanna”
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We can aspire to greatness
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2Paths 1,2 at Gibsons regatta
It was a busy week for 2Paths adventurers. Leaving directly from the team-building whitewater rafting trip on Friday, several 2Pathians sailed to the little town of Gibsons to take part in a regatta that is part of the towns annual festivities. This meant a 1am arrival for the more party hearty of the two participating [...]
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The Outer Limits of the Java Time Zone
Recently I was irritated with some major headaches caused by Java’s date/time functionality. I spent a couple days debugging my code, and stepping through every possibility until coming to the realization, my code worked. So what was causing the discrepancy with my local machine, and the staging server?
Apparently java uses /etc/localtime on linux, and the [...]
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A solid foundation for Agile
When experiencing an agile event, we naturally focus on nimble changes of direction, the grace and efficiency of execution, that make our own lives seem heavy and inert in comparison. This is true whether seeing an athlete in motion or participating in an Agile software development project. However, there is a necessary counterpart to the [...]
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Eclipse WebTools 2.0 Released, time to update your IDE
The Eclipse WebTools team has released version 2.0 of the WebTools Platform along with the rest of the Europa release. From the release announcement:
Eclipse developers will be particularly pleased with the debut of major features and/or specification [...]
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And the seasons they go round and round
“And the seasons they go round and round”
Solstice again
The spreading flood of light once more crests
About to fold back on itself
Narrowing to the tiny pool of damp and bitter Winter
But though the light has spent its gasp
The heat will spread a little longer
And those of us with lightness in our hearts
Can frolic for a season [...]
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Vanjug!
We’ve been working with Darren Gibbons (Openroad) and Cameron MacDonald (HSBC) to kick off vanjug again. The first meeting we’ve planned out will be a lightening session:
* Nick Grabovac’s discussion on Tequila, a revolutionary new Java framework from 2Paths
* Mik Lernout on real world experiences using [...]
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