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GNU Moe Tutorial/Review

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Yesterday I was looking at a listing of updates for free software projects. I commented that the package GNU Moe could be used as a replacement for nano or zile , that is, when you need to quickly edit files from the command-line. So today I’m giving it a go. I downloaded moe via the GNU project’s FTP server and installed it. The compilation was insanely fast, I think it took less than 10 seconds to get it all built and installed.

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Traffic Travis SEO Tool

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For the last few months, I have been checking out the Traffic Travis SEO tool. Researching and investigating tools like this is part of my work as a software development project expert because I want to make sure my clients are on top of the state-of-the-art when it comes to web design, development and internet marketing. Traffic Travis comes in a free and a pro version.

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Django filter versus get for single object?

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Django get versus filter for single object? While working on a project, we use a particular pattern in Django for getting a single object. We first filter the queryset by the id or slug and then check if the queryset exists. If so, then we return the object otherwise we return none. Here is an example of how this looks in Python: models = MyModel.objects.filter(id=24) if len(models) > 0: return models[0] else: return 'could not find model'.

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Agile and user expectations

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FiFrom this article on IT World, “Why your users hate agile (and what you can do about it)” , come some answers and strategies for dealing with user/customer/client expectations : 7 tips for making Agile more palatable to users. Find ways to give users some sense of predictability. Earn trust incrementally. Explain how updates will become more accurate as the project progresses.

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Alternatives to Acceptance Testing

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James Shore, author of the book “The Art of Agile”, wrote an article that covers the alternatives to acceptance testing. The way you write an acceptance test is to take a user story and then write code that tests the end result of a software process. For instance, a user story where “an ecommerce website owner can create a product” may use an acceptance test where server requests are made to the website to login, create the product, and then check that the product appears

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Leadership Influence Techniques From The Army

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The United States Army has a field manual on leadership and leadership influence. In it, they describe multiple techniques for influencing your team/squad to accomplish tasks and fulfill mission objectives. Leadership Influence Techniques. It has a great list of leadership influence techniques that would benefit managers or team leaders in office settings: Pressure.

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Effective Technical Leadership

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Some notes from the Effective Technical Leadership talk given by David Byttow. Attributes of an effective technical lead. Knowledge: “A strong tech lead’s knowledge is broad and deep…A tech lead should be a master of several technologies.” Speed: “be ultra-responsive and capable of making instant decisions, always kicking the ball forward” Awareness: “You should be able to keep the current state of the entire project in your head at all times.” Activitie