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Running the activity:

1.   Start by introducing hte Future Facebook Posts activity

Please assume everyone on the team would be posting at Facebook, and imagine you will travel in time and will be able to look at our team timeline (with all posts).

2.      Ask participants to write down future Facebook posts (individually)

You can say something like: Please write down…

When I joined our employee web portal team as a quality analyst in mid-Jan, I was tasked to “automate ASAP and As Much As Possible”. Sounds familiar?

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My last delivery gig was a great reminder about keeping the principles and values of the Agile Manifesto in mind. It was unlike any agile method that you would probably recognise.

We were building a prototype system to demonstrate the capabilities of a technical standard and the data that it contained. Our main stakeholders, both relatively non-technical knew the type of audience the prototype was intended to influence and making a technical standard come to life with an interactive prototype was our remit. We had free reign of how we worked, the technology we used but our approach consistently…

We were trying to template google analytics and make it part of our requirejs setup. When we did what we thought was obvious to wrap it in a module and declare a dependency on it, it seemed to fail quite miserably.

The trick was that we missed that you needed to export a global variable. This means in the javascript file initialising google analytics we had to add the following code block

var registerGoogleAnalytics = function(accountId) {
  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  if (window) {
    window._gaq = _gaq; // export as global
  }
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', accountId]);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

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You can read the title as “How to make your recently created android app’s file visible”.

I am recetly playing around with Android Platform and around goods and bads this is just annoying. Android has an complex user mode mecanism to segregate application namespace. It is based on linux user mode and each application has its own, well, user. It is OK and brings up a good security policy but has some trade offs as well.

Going specific to what I want to say about files: You do have many ways to write a file with…