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SCNA 2013 in memes

What was SCNA 2013 about? Well...the following memes kept coming up.
  • 10 thousand hours
  • Dreyfus model
  • Reasoning by analogy (chess, film making, agriculture)
  • TDD
  • Clojure
  • Code katas
  • Autonomy, purpose and mastery
  • Agile
  • Craftsmanship
  • Design Patterns
  • Javascript
  • Apple Macs
  • Apprenticeship
  • Rails
  • Professionalism
  • Quality
  • Community
  • Family
I also did a little lightning talk in which I tried to get people to change their minds about the Singleton pattern.
 Ceci n'est pas une Singleton

Syndicated 2013-11-13 23:54:00 (Updated 2013-11-13 23:54:48) from Ade Oshineye

The screens in our future

Through historical accident, television has come to be seen as the first screen with our mobile devices as the second screen. This implies a mental model that's usually driven by television people who really mean that television is the primary screen whilst all others are merely secondary screens. When these devices are viewed from the perspective of the programme makers that is correct. But things change if we look at them from the perspective of the user.
The first screen is the one in your pocket. All others are secondary.
— Adewale Oshineye (@ade_oshineye) May 26, 2013

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