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53 - Infusion

I have had a blast today, working on my “Introduction to Music Production” assignment and had planned to write something about the learning process. However, I am drinking “infusion” (rose hip tea with lemon). Anybody knowing me will know that I tend to drink real tea (Camellia sinensis). This can only mean one thing: I’m starting to get sick. No elaboration on learning today, but here’s the video I made Comping Audio Tracks with Reaper ...

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55 - book sprints

While surfing the Interwebs (looking at private cloud solutions - I plan to give a talk about that later in the year), I also looked at OpenStack. On their blog I stumbled upon the Zero to Book in five days post. A team of people had managed to write a 50'000 word book in just 5 days. As some of you may know, I have written a book too, but it took me 13 months to do so. Naturally I was intrigued and tried to find out more. The people used a process called BookSprints, a facilitated, structured process that takes the group from idea to finished book. ...

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56 - pair programming

Much has been spoken about the pros and cons of pair programming. I have had the good fortune to pair program with some great programmers (Flöre and Kaspar come to mind) but it has always been difficult in the settings I worked in to actually do regular pair programming. I facilitated a couple of coding dojos (I know, I know - should do more…) I’m not going to rehash all the pros and cons of pair programming, and this entry is not going to be a learned discussion of it - just my experiences. ...

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