Personal kaizen

Personal Kaizen

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Tuesday, October 25, 11

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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


• 改 “kai” = change/make better

• 善 "zen" = good

改善


• 改 “kai” = change/make better

• 善 "zen" = good

改善

• 改善 “kaizen” = (continuous) improvement


Need to understand bits & bytes and ourselves!Tuesday, October 25, 11

Dreyfus Model

Competent

Proficient

Expert

Advanced Beginner

Novice


Dreyfus Model

Competent

Proficient

Expert

Advanced Beginner

Novice

10 years


Practice Practice Practice


Know your basic tools


Resurrect deleted files



$ git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- foo.txt




b193eecf895e45b4f875eb4e6030f2c2e9fac897




$ git checkout b193eecf895e45^ -- foo.txt

b193eecf895e45b4f875eb4e6030f2c2e9fac897



http://localhost:8082/sonar



Know your bash ;-)


Find all jar files in your JBoss installation containing a given class

Problem


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


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}


Keep solutions log!


Know your resources

•refcardz.dzone.com•stackoverflow.com


http://refcardz.dzone.com/

http://refcardz.dzone.com/

http://stackoverflow.com/

http://stackoverflow.com/

From Novice to Expert

Competent

Proficient

Expert

Advanced Beginner

Novice

Relevant Focus

Considers Everything

Intuition

Rules

Part of System

Detached Observer


L + R modes

CPU #1

linear, slow non-linear, fast

shared bus


L and R characteristics

• Verbal• Analytic• Symbolic• Abstract• Rational• Logical

L


L and R characteristics

• Verbal• Analytic• Symbolic• Abstract• Rational• Logical

L

• Non-verbal• Synthetic • Concrete• Analogic• Non-rational• Intuitive

R


• Remember the Milk• Mindmaps• Pen and notepad

Capture insight 24x7


https://www.rememberthemilk.com

https://www.rememberthemilk.com

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!


Friedrich August Kekule

Benzene


Thomas Edison


Wrapup

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Q + A


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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http://www.rememberthemilk.com

http://www.rememberthemilk.com

http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar



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