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		<title>Speaking in Brazil</title>
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As many reading this might know, I&#8217;ve moved from London back to São Paulo about a month ago. The timing worked out wonderfully: right before a bunch of really interesting conferences happening over here. Among them, I&#8217;m speaking at:
Encontro Ágil, 10-11 October: a quick talk about the spirit of continuous integration and how important [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lixo.org/archives/2009/09/21/speaking-in-brazil/</link>
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		<title>The Tracer Bullet Application</title>
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In most projects I have been on as a consultant, getting the right environments together was an incredibly consuming task on several people with too much to worry about already: project management, senior techies and the ones responsible for keeping the legacy environments running.
Recently, the idea of getting an example minimal application deployed as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lixo.org/archives/2009/08/25/the-tracer-bullet-application/</link>
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		<title>Testing is&#8230;</title>
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This works for me: testing is about sustainability. If your tests
don&#8217;t let you be sustainable (for whatever value of &#8220;sustainable&#8221; is
important to you) then you&#8217;re probably doing something wrong.
The interesting thing here is that you can define sustainability as &#8220;if we don&#8217;t have this live tomorrow morning, there company will fold&#8221; and then proceed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lixo.org/archives/2009/02/05/testing-is/</link>
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		<title>2008 in Numbers</title>
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Git commits: 1688
Xbox 360s bought: 1
Projects created or started: 14
Guitar Hero levels completed with 5 stars: 98 (on medium)
Burglaries: 2
Full-time projects: 3
kiva.org loans made: 7
Languages learned: 2 (Erlang, LOLcode)
Presentations given: 3
Family Guy episodes watched: 116
Presentations attended: 12
Interviews given: 2 (akitaonrails.com and MTV)
Tweets: 979
Flats: 1 bought, 1 lived in
Arduinos: 4 bought, 2 destroyed
Non-fatal incidents with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lixo.org/archives/2008/12/25/2008-in-numbers/</link>
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		<title>Balances between agile and usability</title>
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Jakob Nielsen on the use of Agile methods:
Agile&#8217;s biggest threat to system quality stems from the fact that it&#8217;s a method proposed by programmers and mainly addresses the implementation side of system development. As a result, it often overlooks interaction design and usability, which are left to happen as a side effect of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lixo.org/archives/2008/11/27/balances-between-agile-and-usability/</link>
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		<title>Announcing lotsofwords.com</title>
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Lots of Words is a new experiment to mash up a Wikipedia based lexicon with images from Flickr and whatever else I can get my hands on, in the context of building a representative and informative source of translations for any particular word, in any particular language. I&#8217;m trying to keep things as machine-readable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lixo.org/archives/2008/11/02/announcing-lotsofwordscom/</link>
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		<title>60 years of the UDHR</title>
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It&#8217;s been nearly 60 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been ratified, and Seth Brau has created a amazing typographical interpretation of its text:

While you&#8217;re watching it, please take a moment to reflect about the ways in which your human rights have been challenged over the powers-that-be over your lifetime, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lixo.org/archives/2008/10/13/60-years-of-the-udhr/</link>
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		<title>Opportunity makes the thief</title>
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Applying the agent nouns are code smells rationale, nicely worded by my colleague Peter Gillard-Moss, controllers are code smells. The more I look at REST and the more I look at how MVC gets typically mapped to it, the more I think the C in MVC is doing the wrong thing, even when it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lixo.org/archives/2008/09/12/opportunity-makes-the-thief/</link>
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		<title>About the Death of the Working Hours</title>
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I fundamentally disagree with the idea that a software development team should be constrained to working 9 to 5. Most software developers don&#8217;t even have that luxury, working overtime to compensate for all the mistakes people like Fred Brooks told us about some decades ago. In this post, I&#8217;d like to pretend more of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lixo.org/archives/2008/08/08/about-the-death-of-the-working-hours/</link>
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		<title>Forms on the Web and the Missing Stubs</title>
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I have changed my mind a lot over the years about web development. I think I have reached another one of those points of inflection, thanks to incredibly bright folks like Simon Stewart, Dan Worthington-Bodart, Jim Webber and George Malamidis. Unfortunately, it took me a lot longer than they did to figure this out, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lixo.org/archives/2008/07/31/forms-on-the-web-and-the-missing-stubs/</link>
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