InfoQ: How Socrates Would Design [Experiences]

InfoQ: How Socrates Would Design [Experiences]: Alişan Atvur shares methods for productively critiquing and improving UX designs, techniques for client buy-in for user research, and how to inspire others on the value of UX.

The Next 6 Months Worth Of Features Are In Facebook's Code Right Now (But We Can't See) | TechCrunch

The Next 6 Months Worth Of Features Are In Facebook's Code Right Now (But We Can't See) | TechCrunch: "A few days ago, Facebook held a tech talk at their headquarters. The topic of the talk was pushing changes — bug fixes, new features, product improvements, etc. Every day, Facebook engineers push hundreds of these; some big, some little. Most of the 600 million-plus users never notice a thing. And apparently, we’re even less likely to notice changes due to a special feature Facebook has. The “Everyone But TechCrunch Can See This” feature."

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Continuous Delivery

Eventer: "Businesses rely on getting valuable new software into the hands of usersas fast as possible, while making sure that they keep their production environments stable. Continuous Delivery is a revolutionary and scalableagile methodology that enables any team, including teams within enterprise IT organizations, to achieve rapid, reliable releases throughbetter collaboration between developers, testers, DBAs and operations, and automation of the build, deploy, test and release process. We'll start by discussing the value of CD to the business, inspired by the lean startup movement. "

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InfoQ: A Dash of Kanban Anyone?

InfoQ: A Dash of Kanban Anyone?: "Joel Semeniuk shares some of the lessons he learned managing development teams, how he got into Kanban and why its principles are helpful. "

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Take a break for productivity's sake | TechRepublic

Take a break for productivity's sake | TechRepublic: " Independent consultant Chip Camden explains why taking a walk outside is his ideal break when he’s stuck on a problem. He also reveals potential pitfalls with this practice."

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How to Get Children to Voluntarily Eat Food (not Phood) - Jodi Kasten - Open Salon

How to Get Children to Voluntarily Eat Food (not Phood) - Jodi Kasten - Open Salon: "The last thing any parent needs is another lecture about childhood obesity and vitamin D deficiency. I’m not here to tell you that you’re a bad parent because your kid refuses to eat anything but pizza and gummy bears. I’m here to tell you how to change it."

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Staff Lists: The Top 50 Albums of 2011 | Features | Pitchfork

Staff Lists: The Top 50 Albums of 2011 | Features | Pitchfork:
"We count down our favorite records of the year."