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MasterChef - The Professionals
Started by twokids+1more , Jan 12 2013 08:50 PM
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Posted 12 January 2013 - 08:50 PM
I keep seeing the ad for MasterChef professionals and it was filmed in Melbourne. Anyone know where the filiming was done? Where was the MasterChef kitchen? Anyone know?
Posted 12 January 2013 - 08:53 PM
I think at the showgrounds
Posted 12 January 2013 - 10:06 PM
Yep at the show grounds in the Chicken pavillion! lol
I read an article in the paper the other day that the chicken judging has to find new digs while the filming is going on.
Posted 13 January 2013 - 05:27 PM
Can hardly wait for this to start.
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 09:19 AM
I'm looking forward to this!
Posted 19 January 2013 - 11:08 AM
I love the English masterchef professionals so I hope this is jut as good.
Posted 20 January 2013 - 10:23 PM
Not loving it at all. In fact Mr Marco Pierre White is putting me off. The whole repeating himself 3 or 4 times - annoying.
When he kept saying 2 "X', 2 "Y" three times over, well any normal Chef would think he was asking for 6 of each item not hassling them for 2 of them. And saying it over and over is not going to get it cooked any quicker.
It was obvious Matty was going home, and he deserved to, why say you know how to do something when you obviously don't?
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 10:26 PM
I'm quite fond of MPW ever since I had a sex dream about him. It's okay so far but I agree I don't understand why Matty would take on something he's never done.
Posted 20 January 2013 - 10:30 PM
I don't mind Marco, ask me again at the end of the series!
Posted 21 January 2013 - 07:47 AM
QUOTE (Chocolate Addict @ 20/01/2013, 11:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Not loving it at all. In fact Mr Marco Pierre White is putting me off. The whole repeating himself 3 or 4 times - annoying.
When he kept saying 2 "X', 2 "Y" three times over, well any normal Chef would think he was asking for 6 of each item not hassling them for 2 of them. And saying it over and over is not going to get it cooked any quicker.
I think Marco is doing what I've read recommended for doing with kids - say it over and over until you get some kind of acknowledgement you've been heard. He stops when they say "Yes Marco!" or "Yes chef!" because he knows they heard him and should have added it into their workload. It's something I've seen before in cooking shows but not usually as machine-gun-like as Marco does it. And it definitely works with my kids, either repeating myself until they say they heard me or saying it then saying "Yes mum I heard you mum" so they realise I was after a response.
Posted 21 January 2013 - 07:49 AM
I don't mind Marco either, but I thought the first episode was ordinary, to say the least. Professional chefs being given someone elses creation and told to replicate it? C'mon, shouldn't they be creating their own?
What I found amusing was at the start when they were looking at the photos and commenting on the styles and they were all curious about one in particular, and some of them were saying how it stood out from the others.
It was shredded veges in a glass. It looked like rabbit food served Michelin star style.
Posted 21 January 2013 - 07:52 AM
QUOTE (Chicky whicky @ 19/01/2013, 12:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I love the English masterchef professionals so I hope this is jut as good.
I doubt it, they managed to ruin the other versions so I suspect it will be the same this time. Plus Marco Pierre White is so annoying where as Michel Roux is awesome!
Posted 21 January 2013 - 07:54 AM
How the hell can you forget a main part of a dish?
Posted 21 January 2013 - 08:09 AM
QUOTE (~sydblue~ @ 21/01/2013, 08:54 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
How the hell can you forget a main part of a dish?
Yeah, i thought that that a little weird too considering they are all meant to be professionals. Shouldn't they be used to performing under time pressures?
Also I thought it was a little lame of channel 10 to have the intro music go blurry when the shot of the deaf girl's (I think her name is Bonny) hearing aid was shown.
Posted 21 January 2013 - 09:09 AM
I liked it but I love reality cooking shows...
Has anyone read this? It made me lol...
I also wondered about missing the duck, isn't MPW job to "approve" all dishes that go out? I thought that was the head chefs role. If it is, why did a dish with a missing part go out??
Posted 21 January 2013 - 09:33 AM
QUOTE (asdf89 @ 21/01/2013, 09:09 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yeah, i thought that that a little weird too considering they are all meant to be professionals. Shouldn't they be used to performing under time pressures?
Also I thought it was a little lame of channel 10 to have the intro music go blurry when the shot of the deaf girl's (I think her name is Bonny) hearing aid was shown.
I thought it was a little tacky also...but reminded me of other reality shows where they focus on a few contestants to get public support for them.
This being said I did enjoy the show and I will watch it again tonight.
Posted 21 January 2013 - 09:44 AM
QUOTE (Bluenomi @ 21/01/2013, 08:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Michel Roux is awesome!
Michel Roux ate breakfast at my regular breakfast place a few years ago (back when I lived there) and claimed it as the best breakfast he'd ever eaten!
The best bit was that the awesome people who run it had no idea who he was - so no special treatment, and no nerves either!
Posted 21 January 2013 - 09:47 AM
Are there any WA contestants ?
Posted 21 January 2013 - 09:57 AM
QUOTE (cameo @ 21/01/2013, 10:09 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I liked it but I love reality cooking shows...
Has anyone read this? It made me lol...
I also wondered about missing the duck, isn't MPW job to "approve" all dishes that go out? I thought that was the head chefs role. If it is, why did a dish with a missing part go out??
I'd taped it last night but probably wasn't going to bother watching it. Think I will now, just to see this in action!
Posted 21 January 2013 - 12:42 PM
I missed it
But I'm SURE they'll do an 'encore' screening at least once this week.
Posted 21 January 2013 - 12:49 PM
I'm watching it on the channel ten website now. So much better, no ads!!!
Posted 21 January 2013 - 12:51 PM
QUOTE (countrymel @ 21/01/2013, 10:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Michel Roux ate breakfast at my regular breakfast place a few years ago (back when I lived there) and claimed it as the best breakfast he'd ever eaten!
The best bit was that the awesome people who run it had no idea who he was - so no special treatment, and no nerves either!
And now he's even more awesome
Posted 21 January 2013 - 01:09 PM
They did an encore screening this morning.
I didnt mind it, I thought definitely it would be Matty (hat guy) going home as he stuffed up way too much.
I dont usually watch these, but I didnt mind this one, but will see how I go.
Very funny piece
Posted 21 January 2013 - 01:30 PM
QUOTE (cameo @ 21/01/2013, 07:09 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Has anyone read this? It made me lol...
This was pure gold. Love it! Thanks for sharing.
Posted 21 January 2013 - 03:11 PM
That Age piece was the funniest thing I have read in a long time.
Matty's hat - yuck!!!!!
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Harlequins Director of Rugby Conor O'Shea praised his side's self-belief after they came from 18 points down to beat Exeter 30-29 on Sunday and so keep their English Premiership play-off hopes alive.
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Harlequins book Challenge Cup Semi-final
Saturday 5 April 2014
English Rugby club Harlequins booked a place in the Amlin Challenge Cup Sem-finals when they beat Stade Francais 6-29 at Stade Jean Bouin.
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England prop Marler commits to Harlequins
Harlequins down London Irish and stay alive
Harlequins edge out Worcester Warriors
Robshaw calls for Harlequins to make fast start
Mike Brown wins Premiership player of the year
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O'Shea praises Harlequins self-belief
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Today is the first time we have seen the sun for a long time. It has been pouring rain around Vagabond Lodge for about the past week. And that means snow at the top. Here are some webcam shots from the top of the mountain this morning. A few days ago they were reporting about 80cms and I am sure there has been another 20cm or so since. Now it is just a matter of moving on down the mountain which should begin soon. The temperatures are expected to drop below freezing in the next few days.
Kicking Horse opens on December 12 for the season but if we get some good dumps in the next couple weeks they will open for a sneak preview weekend on December 6th weekend.
Vagabond Lodge is completely booked for New Years but we still have some availability before and after. Give us a call toll free in Canada 1 866 944 2622 or international 250 344 2622 or you can email me at email@example.com.
A lot of New Snow
Snowing at Top
Closed Until Ski Season
Sad Day
Another Summer at Kicking Horse has come to an end and it was a great one. Awesome weather and great guests. We finished it off with another beautiful ridge hike with some friends and then ended up at the Eagle's Eye Restaurant for lunch. We have a group of Aussies with us for a couple days(25) and then Vagabond Lodge closes until ski season. Reminder we have a Early Bird Savings if you book before November 1. Give us a call at 250 344 2622 or toll free in Canada at 1 866 944 2622 or email email@example.com
Here are some photos of today's Hike.
Fantastic Job
I have been talking to Kicking Horse Resort for years about improving their hikes on the ridges. The views are amazing but some of the trails were a major challenge and access was limited to only a few.
My favourite has been to the top of T2 which is south of the Gondola. It used to involve a few places where you had to scramble up a pretty steep slope, and a few places on the way down where it was best to go backwards at times.
Well that is now over. The resort has built an awesome trail to the top of T2 for summer hiking. There are rock steps built into the steep sections which makes for an easy hike to one of the most majestic views you will see anywhere. I went up for the first time on Sunday to check it out and the best review was the fact there were hikers everywhere of all ages on the trail. This trail cannot take a back seat to anything in the National Parks.
You can go from the top of the gondola to the top of T2 now in 30 minutes or even less. There is a trail that you can continue the hike for at least another 30 minutes if not more continuing south along the ridge. Hopefully this is just the start.
Congrats to the resort for this.
Summer Winding Down
Yes, it is hard to believe the summer is almost done. We have even had some snow already although it has since melted. The gondola and grizzly bear is open for the weekends only until September 28th weekend which is a treat for us here. We have been taking advantage of going to the top for some ridge hikes which are fabulous. We had a great group last weekend from around the world stay with us. It was a reunion of friends who get together every 2 years somewhere different. We put together a great weekend event for them including catered dinners at Vagabond Lodge, along with a trip to Columbia Wetlands Adventures which is one of our favourite spots. It is located on the Columbia River about 20 minutes south of Golden. They all went for a canoe or raft trip, some went swimming and we had a catered picnic on the side of the river. It was a perfect day.
Vagabond Lodge will shut down after September 28th for a well deserved break and reopen for ski season.
Kicking Horse Hike
I did this hike the other day for the first time at Kicking Horse. Actually it was a lot better than I thought and it took less than 2 hours with a lot of stops to pick huckleberries. The views once you start back up through the bowl are not great but still very interesting. It is a good work-out because there is a lot of elevation gain in a short distance.
This is the description from the Kicking Horse website.
Bowl Over Loop:
Rating: Intermediate
Return Time: 2.5 Hours
Description: The Bowl Over Loop starts at the top of the Golden Eagle Express Gondola and makes its way down CPR Ridge dropping in elevation until you reach Tower 15 of the Gondola line. Views along the ridgeline are magnificent with vistas of the Dogtooth Range, Blaeberry Valley, Golden, Rocky Mountains, and Columbia Valley. Truly magnificent. From tower 15 you start your heart pumping assent up through the natural beauty of Bowl Over. Gaining elevation with every step, you will be taken in with the scope of the size of Bowl Over itself. The trail heads up through large rocks, alpine meadows and along natural moraine features before its steep final leg that finishes you back up at the summit of Kicking Horse.
Great Hiking Weather
One of my favourite hikes in the area is Iceline trail in Yoho National Park. It is about a 45 minute drive to the trailhead at Takakkaww Falls. I have always made it a 2 day hike with a night in Little Yoho at the campground. Some stay at the Alpine Club Cabin at the same area. But you can certainly do it in one day and takes about 8 hours or so. It is such a beautiful hike, it is one to savour. This video was done by son Kori. I think this is the best in the Rockies. After about a 45 minute climb, it is all over moraines with glaciers and small creeks and lakes. You are pretty exposed so pick a nice day with no chance of rain.
Best Time of the Summer
Balu Pass
One of the busiest weekends of the summer is coming up. And that means the hiking trails will be busy. Lake Louise, Banff, Jasper will be full. Why not get off the beaten track a bit and head to Glacier National Park?? It is just 45 minutes or so west of Golden and Vagabond Lodge. The hikes there are outstanding. They are all pretty tough but the payback is worth it. It will be busy no doubt but at least you won't be "bumper to bumper "so to speak as you will be in Banff.
One of my favourite in the area is Balu Pass which starts just behind the information centre at the top of Rogers Pass. Along with some friends, we did it a couple summers ago. It is about 6 hours return and winds its way through a beautiful valley with all sorts of waterfalls and wildlife. Balu means Grizzly Bear and we did spot one across the valley. He saw us and wandered away into the trees. It is a hike you usually have to do with at least 4 people. Amazing views from the top especially.
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Call for 9th December 2014 Lightning Talks
Its an Agile Yorkshire Xmas tradition to look within our members for the December meetup content and stage an evening of fun and Lightning Talks.
CLOSING FRIDAY 28th NOVEMBER
Even if you only have the vaguest of ideas, now is the time to start your career as a speaker. If you're not sure what you're letting your self in for this may help. A ten minute Lightning Talk for Agile Yorkshire's December 2014 meetup should:
Even if all you have is the vaguest idea, sign up now and we'll help you bring it to life. If you have multiple ideas and aren't sure which to use, that's fine we'll help you pick the right one.
Also did we mention there will be significant speaker prizes on the night.
Incitement to murderous deeds and the throttling of flow
The much abused term DevOps was the theme of the main presentation of the evening. Like Agile, DevOps seems to be an overloaded term appropriated to mean, variously, automation, system administration, build & deploy. Mathew, sporting a fantastic self made t-shirt emblazoned with the rallying cry "Death To The DevOps Team" proposed a more useful definition along the lines of "Highly effective, daily collaboration between software developers and IT operations people to produce relevant, working systems". He would also aspire to spread the collaboration net wider than just software developers to include QA/Testing, IT Service Desk, Programme Management, Commercial, Marketing. Tools were recognised as an an important facilitator (and sometime inhibitor) for collaboration. For example, Mathew proposed that the primary benefit of git was improved collaboration and, as such, all the artefacts of build and deployment should be made transparent using version control systems. Much of the presentation was taken up with descriptions of patterns and anti-patterns which emerge when organisation aim to achieve the hoped for benefits of the DevOps movement. From the "DevOps Team" anti-pattern of the title to the sublime "Smooth Collaboration" pattern via the "we don't need no ops team" anti-pattern dead end. There was also an interesting description of a variation of the ball point game popular with agile teams which had been adapted to show the effects of multiple teams on delivery of value.
The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald Reinertsen. After a high level view of the main concepts of flow (variability, queues, utilisation, batch size, WIP, feedback and cross-functional synchronisation) Steve gave an entertaining run through of the things which Big Dumb Organisation's (BDO's) do to break the principles of flow which underpin agile practices. For example, making the product backlog a big queue (which is bad in flow) by committing to everything in the backlog. Steve's slides and transcript are available here and are well worth a read.
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As always our thanks go to the helpers and sponsors without whom the evenings would not be possible. After meeting beers were kindly provided by Matthew Wood of ISourceIT.
The great photos are courtesy of @relentlessdev
Open spaces open minds
dot voting it was clear what people most wanted to talk about. Some of the winning topics were (roughly): 'Do we need managers?', 'Are all company cultures the same?' and 'Does agile work for predicting project costs/time-scales?'
The discussions were held in three sessions running concurrently in three rooms, with participants free to move about the rooms at will. Each session was hosted by the person who had proposed the talk, which elicited a few sad faces as the hosts realised they might not be able to join in with all the other conversations that they had been interested in.
Whilst the plan had been to run nine sessions in total (one at a time in each of the three rooms) we only ended up having time for two sessions per room, such was the level of lively discussion. There were some passionate voices to be heard and not everyone was always in agreement. Nonetheless, common threads were noted down in an attempt to address the issues at hand, and everyone seemed to enjoy the process.
We came back together at the end to reflect on the conversations that had been had and give everyone a chance to hear what had gone on in the sessions that they had been unable to attend. It was definitely interesting and informative to see what our community thought on different subjects -- a successful Open Spaces event for Agile Yorkshire.
Write up by Eleanor Chambers and Krystan Honour
Pair presentation on pairing in software delivery teams plus the pared down framework - Nancy
New Years Day desk restructuring.
Rather than simply encouraging team members to pair when they could they adopted a 3 month period where nearly all activities across the software delivery team were carried out by pairs. There was plenty of discussion during the presentation about the various permutations and strategies adopted to ensure success. Although traditional XP pairing (two people working together with a single computer to solve a problem) was tried, so too were other techniques such as side by side pairing (two people working alongside each other to solve a problem by partition, XP style pairing and frequent close communication) and mob programming (single room, big screen, shared computers with representatives from several disciplines working closely to solve a problem).
The benefits of shorter feedback loops and better quality collaboration were stressed over email ping-pong or large meetings. The business benefit of the experiment was improved knowledge transfer in an environment with a high proportion of contractor staff. There was discussion of an interesting metric in the form of a matrix of skills and knowledge levels by team member and a drive to use pairing to reduce 'skill silo' risks. The experience levels of the participants making up a pair was felt to give different benefits; from exploration in novice-novice pairs through "up-skilling" in expert-average pairs through to crackling productivity in expert-expert pairs. The diversity of perspective was felt to be a particular benefit when pairing across disciplines with the cost of hand-offs between activities reduced.
Write-up by Neil McLaughlin
As always thanks to our sponsors and helpers for their support - the evenings would not be possible without them.
An antipodean evening with David Evans and Gwen Diagram
In a nice slide (full slides available here) which neatly summarised for me how SBE artefacts are more than just tests - they are specifications, tests and living documentation. It also gave a way of thinking about their evolution over their lifetime: SBE artefacts should provide specifications now, regression tests soon and documentation later. He also contrasted the long lived nature of specifications versus the short lived (burn it!) nature of a user story.
Working through a number of examples of bad examples (see what I did there!) David brought out the desired qualities for artefacts of Focus, Balance and Contrast and why we should aim for hour-glass shaped scenarios with consistent levels of abstraction. Interestingly these are desirable qualities in all tests not just those of SBE.
In an interesting segment on the often debated topic of whether tests slow down development David made the pithy observation that tests slow down development in the same way that passengers slow down a bus. The speed of the bus (along with the speed of development) is not the point!
The final related segment addressed what will move organisations towards investing more in building a body of tests to support software making comparisons to with the costs of oil exploration. At this point in time the cost of tests is perceived to be high but as organisations start to realise additional value from tests either earlier in the software delivery life-cycle in the form of specifications or later in the form of live documentation then the value of the artefacts to an organisation increases and makes it more likely that time will be invested in building them.
The other half of the antipodean (dynamic) duo presenting on the evening was Gwen Diagram who gave a passionate presentation describing her journey to enlightenment from behind the waterfall into the world of multifunctional teams, close collaboration across the software delivery disciplines and high levels of tester autonomy. She stressed the need for testers to be able to chose their own tools and to not be afraid to ditch tools when they are no longer adding value. There was a lively debate on the issue of whether the testers in a team should all be technical and the need for developers to draw on testers experience and testers to pull in developers to help with test automation.
The lively discussions carried on afterwards in the pub (beers kindly sponsored by Sean Addy of iSourceIT) with both speakers present and actively engaged in the debates
Thanks as always to all our volunteer team who make the event happen and finally thanks to main sponsors Callcredit, Piksel & NewRedo and also to our prize sponsors O'Reilly, JetBRAINS, Manning, Wrox and PluralSight.
See you in August
The Agile Yorkshire Team
Nick McKenna disputes the existence of Agile and Craig Norton live codes in AngularJS
Focusing on Scrum in particular, Nick questions the value of sprints. The fact that a team may only evaluate their productivity once every couple weeks can be very limiting and result in sizeable chunks of work that gets scrapped, which in turn could lead to an unhappy team -- another thing Nick has been saddened to see. To combat team malaise, Nick recommends TINYpulse, a system for collecting anonymous feedback on the mood of a team via short, snappy surveys.
As a long term observation, Nick has also noticed that the velocity of Agile teams is generally on a downward trend. Another side-effect of time-boxed work, perhaps? An Agile regime can be relentless and draining, with few diversions and little opportunity to branch out and be creative. Nick's cure? Football stickers. Or whatever works for your team, but Nick reckons that a successful Agile team takes time out from work to celebrate their successes as well as regularly considering their shortcomings.
Angular-Seed project. A complaint often made about JavaScript projects in relation to their codebases is a lack of structure, with code that is difficult to read and difficult to maintain. Craig gave us a tour of some of the constructs Angular presents that are designed to add some of this desirable code structure. One such construct is a 'directive', which allows particular behaviours to be applied to a given DOM element. Whilst the behaviour of making the elements of your web page repeatedly appear and disappear (as jokingly shown by Craig) may not be the most useful application of this, it was a powerful demonstration of the speed with which one can develop a reusable function of this sort in Angular, and how cleanly it fits into the page markup, with its intention clear to developers and designers alike.
The concept of dependency injection pervades the framework's structure, which was designed with testability in mind. Craig showed us how he could run Jasmine tests against different components of his Angular application through Karma, the JavaScript test runner, which is a setup that comes as part of the Angular-Seed project itself. The decoupled nature of the different components of an Angular application that makes them so testable also eases the parallelisation of development work, which is a clear draw for bigger JavaScript projects.
Write-up by Eleanor Chambers
Thanks again must go to Matthew Wood from iSource, who sponsored the "after-drinks". Thanks to all our volunteer team who make the event happen and finally thanks to main sponsors Callcredit, Piksel & NewRedo and also to our prize sponsors O'Reilly, JetBRAINS, Manning, Wrox and PluralSight.
See you in July
The Agile Yorkshire Team
Geoff Watts on Servant Leadership & Stew Able on Architecture and Agile
Geoff highlighted areas often overlooked in considering why a team is failing to meet its targets -- the targets themselves, for example. Too short a sprint and the team can end up too focused on that short-term goal, killing potential creativity and longer-term success. Then again, short sprints can provide a lot of feedback, building a more resilient, responsive team. Geoff's talk showed that there's a lot to consider in building a good Scrum team, and a good servant-leader should help teams to solve their own problems, getting them to figure out what works best for themselves.
Stew posits that architecture is everyone's responsibility, and that team members of all levels of ability should be able to make valuable contributions. Questioning why certain patterns exist in the code base can lead to a better end result and shared understanding of the system amongst more people. Different views of the architecture should exist for the different parties involved, to enable as much contribution and understanding of it as possible. Its documentation should be lean and up to date so it is as inviting to read and as relevant as it can be. Stew's talk made it clear that Agile development at its best has architecture as part of the process, as a system's architecture will certainly affect the work taken on by any Agile team. Stew's slides are available here.
Eleanor Chambers
Thanks to all in the volunteer team who make the event happen, to our main sponsors Callcredit and Piksel and, finally, to our prize sponsors O'Reilly, JetBRAINS, Manning, Wrox and PluralSight.
Announcing Piksel as a Sponsor
Agile Yorkshire has a new sponsor. Piksel have stepped forward to support the Agile Yorkshire community and hence the agile movement in are region. Agile Yorkshire is only able to run in the way it does, attracting some of the best speakers and developing local industry leadership, through the help of sponsors like Piksel. Here's what Piksel have said...
"Piksel is proud to sponsor Agile Yorkshire - to support their mission to champion software development in the region and build a centre of excellence. Piksel has an extensive track record in the delivery of OTT Solutions to some of the world's largest broadcasters and has been involved in some of the earliest pioneering implementations. Customers include; BSkyB, Liberty Global, OSN and 4oD. Delivering the best in OTT solutions, with the expertise to manage even the most complex integrations, Piksel stands with those redefining the frontiers of viewing.
Piksel's headquartered in New York with offices worldwide. Established in 2001 the UK Head Office is based in York Science Park. With circa 200 involved in software development and managed services, Piksel is an environment where technical people thrive, where they can be hands on and find variety from the breadth of high profile clients. The company continuously invests in new approaches and strives to improve its delivery processes. Piksel looks to Agile Yorkshire as one source of inspiration in a pragmatic approach to project delivery."
8th April - Jose Casal and Richard Tasker
The number of people arriving early for the great networking opportunity at the start of the evening seems to be increasing and there was already a substantial buzz in the room at 6:30.
The main speaker for the evening was Jose Casal (@jose_casal) who, whilst being based in the south east, is a frequent visitor to Yorkshire for engagements with large and medium sized organisations. These organisation typically want some of the kool-aid associated with progressive software development processes but are often typified by islands of agility in more traditional organisational structures.
Jose asserted that, compared to the industrial revolution, the information revolution has barely started and is currently at the "Model T" stage. He posed the hypothesis that in order for organisations to transform to hyperproductivity then the low levels of efficiency of software delivery teams (given as between 1% and 5%) needs to be addressed. Jose emphasised the impact of people and culture in the transformation process which itself should be evolutionary not revolutionary. There was a lively debate in the Q&A session around the theme of "slack" and how organisations might best build that into their software delivery process. This debate carried on enthusiastically into the pub where the beers were kindly sponsored by iSourceIT.
The support slot for the evening was taken up by Richard Tasker (@ritasker) - an exile from across the Pennines who is now resident in Yorkshire. Richard gave a tour of the different flavours of tools available in .NET for driving software development from examples (aka BDD - Behaviour Driven Development ). In the process he also gave a useful overview of the difference between TDD and BDD, the strengths of each and where BDD adds value to software delivery by clarifying requirements through examples which, in turn, can act as living documentation.
Thanks to all in the volunteer team who make the event happen and finally thanks to our other main sponsors Callcredit and NewRedo and to our prize sponsors O'Reilly, JetBRAINS, Manning, Wrox and PluralSight.
See you next month,
Neil McLaughlin
Rachel Davies on XP @ Unruly and Ray Edgar talks about Implementing Agile/Lean Software Delivery at Enterprise Level
If the audience at this month's Agile Yorkshire is taken to be a reasonable representation of the development community at large, it would seem that most organisations have not roamed far beyond Scrum or Kanban in their approach to Agile. So it was with great interest that many listened to Rachel Davies' experiences as an Agile Coach doing XP (eXtreme Programming) at Unruly. We were warned up front that XP is 'not like Scrum', despite the familiar looking whiteboards and Post-it notes. Unlike Scrum, XP dictates that pair programming is a non-negotiable part of the development process. At Unruly, only a pair of developers working together may make changes to production code, even going to the 'eXtreme' (!) of limiting the number of workstations to fewer than one per person in order to ensure this collaboration takes place. We were assured, thankfully, that their developers do at least get their own chair.
It has not all been without its problems, however. As an exercise in demonstrating that people don't always know what's good for them, a successful change Rachel has been involved with at Unruly has been to break their development teams into smaller units. Though it initially met with some resistance, people soon saw the advantages to working in smaller groups in the form of much more streamlined meetings and the consequent time savings and improvement in communication. With small teams working in relative isolation, Rachel told us that it sometimes became hard to maintain consistency as different development teams began to work in slightly different ways, making it difficult for developers outside of a given team to quickly engage in that team's work. To combat this developers are offered the chance to move between teams on a quarterly basis, sharing knowledge and encouraging consistent cross-team practice along the way.
With no staging environments or test team, Rachel feels that good Test Driven Development is an important part of Unruly's success with XP. Software developers at Unruly are expected to have knowledge of the full development stack, with many of the traditional roles in a development team eschewed in favour of a team of generalists. Requirements are written by developers talking directly to stakeholders within the business, often facilitated by an Embedded Project Manager who can provide direction as to where the knowledge on a particular subject lies in the company. In terms of the organisation of projects -- well, apparently Unruly don't actually have projects. Instead the developers manage a constant stream of imminent potential work, where development time is estimated and stories composed then eventually prioritised in a Story Prioritization meeting with other members of the business.
Ray Edgar, who presented observations of the use of Agile Development in enterprise businesses. Ray has recently been studying to become a BCS Agile Practitioner, giving him an opportunity to reflect on the value of Agile Software Development to the enterprise business. He has found that there is often a discrepancy between 'doing' Agile and working in a way that provides the benefits that Agile Development should. Ask most people what Agile Development is and typically they'll respond with a list of fancy sounding acronyms (SAFe) and initialisms (XP!). What it's really about, Ray argues, is focussing on the business value of development and doing it in a way that provides quick feedback. To some organisations, adopting Agile has amounted to a reshuffling of the business processes that were already in place; losing sight of the benefits a more thorough implementation could bring, they stick to the comfort of the familiar. For this reason, some companies remain unaware that their confused implementation limits the potential advantage they hoped to gain by engaging in Agile Development in the first place. Finally, Ray encouraged the audience to promote some risk-taking in their workplaces, as a failure to make sufficiently drastic changes can leave a business miles behind the competition.
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Days after West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg got publicly called out for his Rastafarian "Snoop Lion" rap alias, the hip-hop veteran has now received the ultimate co-sign from late Jamaican Bob Marley's son.
Rather than feed into the controversy, Rohan Marley said people should embrace Snoop's love for Rastafarian culture.
Snoop Lion just got the MARLEY FAMILY SEAL OF APPROVAL … because Bob's son Rohan tells TMZ the reggae legend would've totally supported Snoop's Rastafarian rebirth. Rohan says he's well aware that an original member of the Wailers — along with the Rastafari Millennium Council — attacked Snoop … claiming the rapper is nothing more than a Rasta Imposta. But Rohan says those guys have it all wrong — telling us, "Our father's name should not even be mentioned in this issue because like a true Rasta, he would have embraced Snoop's reincarnation and welcomed the positivity."He continues, "Why condemn a man for his love of Rastafari and Bob Marley?" "We have been cool with Snoop before his transformation and he will continue to have our blessings and support." (TMZ)
Rohan even hopped onto his Twitter page this week to back up Snoop.
"RASTA RESPECT for your #Reincarnation @SnoopDogghttp://t.co/AnpOCXXi," he tweeted January 23rd. (Rohan Marley's Twitter)
Earlier in the week, a former Bob Marley associate called Snoop out about his transformation.
Bunny Wailer has voiced his concerns about Snoop's Rastafarian transformation and told TMZ he thinks the rapper's new persona is an "outright fraudulent use of Rastafari Community's personalities and symbolism."Bunny's sentiment has been echoed by the Ethio-Africa Diaspora Union Millennium Council, which also calls itself the Rastafari Millennium Council, and the organization has put together a 7-page letter explaining their opposition to the rapper's use of Rastafari symbolism. (The Versed)
Last summer, the West Coast rap vet revealed Dr. Dre's initial reaction to his new alias.
"He would see me come to rehearsals with all of my Rastafari, my gear, my hair, my look. He was just peeping me out, and I let him know I was doing a reggae project and working on the album and whatnot, but he didn't really understand it until 'La La La' came out," Snoop told MTV News. "La La La," the first single from Reincarnated, which Snoop released July 20, marked a new chapter in his musical career, though he has always infused reggae lingo in tracks like the 1992 Dr. Dre track "The Day the N—az Took Over" and his 1993 album cut "Pump Pump." (MTV)


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David Warner is hopeful that Australia will press for a win on the final day at Old Trafford despite rain and bad light playing spoilsport in the final session of the penultimate day and forcing play to be called off much ahead of the scheduled close. However, he was candid enough to admit that he was unaware when the declaration would come. Warner, who was promoted to open the innings in search of some quick runs for Australia, told Sky Sports: "We'd have liked to put more runs on the board and then have a crack tonight but at some stage tomorrow we'll do that." Australia skipper, Michael Clarke was furious when the umpires brought play to an end because of bad light. The umpires later confirmed that they could have continued had the England skipper, Alastair Cook agreed to operate with his spinners. "That's what happens these days, the umpires make the (bad light) decision and (Alastair Cook) clearly didn't want to bowl the spinners any more," Warner said. "I think we would've kept batting, Michael (Clarke, captain) was out there so he would decide what to do," added Warner. The moment of the day came when Warner was caught for 41 in the outfield by Joe Root. The southpaw's jab at the young England batsman in a Birmingham bar has made him the 'bad guy' at Old Trafford with the crowd booing and jeering him, but Warner admits he enjoys playing the part. "I'm copping a little bit on the (boundary) fence but you've just got to keep smiling, enjoy the crowd and embrace it," he said. The crowd have been very vocal - they've been a bit quiet in the morning though, probably hung over from the day before," stated Warner on a lighter note.
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I love macarons. They are so beautiful, so tasty and just awesome in general.
I love macarons. They are so beautiful, so tasty and just awesome in general.
Today I received some adorable gifts in the mail from my dear friend Nicole. So many adorable gifts that I love. I have been a bit spoilt with gifts lately, but I am going to be good and send some in return. I promise.
1. Owl tee, 2. 2015 Diary, 3. Owl Journal, 4. Sun & Moon friendship necklace, 5. Owl noodle head cute thing, 6. Hello Kitty reindeer, 7. Hilarious card, 8. Stickers, 9. 2014 Diary and 10. Special message from an adorable boy.
Thank you so so so so so so so so much Nicole not only for sending me these gifts that I love and cherish, but also sending gifts for my mum and dad that they love too. <3 You rock suck forever.
Today I received a very wonderful surprise in the mail. Some lovely gifts from my friend Silver. It was a true delight to open the parcel and find so many adorable notebooks, tidbits and a cuddly owl plushie. Thank you Silver, times a trillion billion cupcakes.
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Facebook Adds Spotify Integration, Spotify Returns The Favor: Requires Facebook Login
Last week's Thursday saw Mark Zuckerberg present a ton of new things at the Facebook developer conference f8 that will hit Facebook in the coming months. One of the additions, that was immediately enabled was the deep partnership with Spotify. For those who love to listen to music in a social way, this is heaven. You're able to dive into your friends' music habits whenever you're in Facebook. There are a couple of downsides to this and the most important one isn't the fact that your Facebook stream is a flush of Spotify updates. It's actually the fact that with the integration - Spotify has disabled any other sign-in method and now requires new users to have Facebook accounts. This is a huge gamble for the Sweden based music company that could backfire on it.
Endomondo Raises $2.3M And Reaches 5M Downloads
Endomondo, the company developing a mobile sports tracker application by the same name, has announced its $2.3 million financing round from Denmark based SEED Capital. Endomondo was launched in September 2008. The company's mobile app has gained substantial traction since February, when we reported it reached a previous significant milestone of 2 million downloads.
Just-Eat Expands To South America
Just-Eat, a Danish originated, world's largest online takeaway ordering service has expanded to South America through a partnership with RestauranteWeb. The partnership in practice means that Restaurante Web will become part of the Just-Eat Group. The partnership will give Just-Eat a pool of over 1000 restaurants in Brazil initially.
RestauranteWeb was founded in 2004 by Luiz Jares and Marco Corradini. Jares commented "We've always known the huge potential online takeaway has in Brazil, and as the leading provider of food ordering services we are in a prime position to capitalise. Being part of the Just-Eat Group means that we will be able to offer both existing and new restaurant partners an enhanced service that will allow them to serve more customers than ever before."
Rovio And Uplause Premiered Angry Birds Crowd Game At Formula1 GP Singapore
Last weekend Rovio and Uplause, two Finnish companies, premiered the Angry Birds Crowd Game at the Formula 1 race in Singapore. Uplause is a company creating differnent kinds of massive multiplayer games - the kind that you play in large stadiums and outdoor events, for example, together with thousands of players simultaneously. More than 2.5 million people have participated in the games so far, according to Uplause.
Mancx, Graduateland Win At Arctic15
Close to 400 startup enthusiasts from all over the region came together in Helsinki to witness 15 stellar pitches from companies on stage at Arctic15 yesterday. The day was all about winning and despite the hard choice of the jury to pick one winner - all the companies already won, by getting tons of coverage and visibility on stage for their products and services. In addition to this, Amazon Web Services decided to give a substantial amount of credit to all the 15 finalists (we'll contact you directly regarding the details on this).
No Coverage Today - Everyone's At Arctic15
We'll be resuming our coverage tomorrow as today everyone is at Arctic15!
Arctic15 Mobile App Now Available
The Arctic15 mobile app has now been made available. The mobile app is, bowing to web based applications, all HTML5 and it's been put together by the wonderful team at Webcrumbz. Their team will also be at Arctic15, so go say hi to them! The app is your digital guide to the event and through that you can check the schedule, speakers, sponsors and also send questions to our speakers. Furthermore - it's up to the audience to decide on the audience favorite, who will win 5000€ of sponsorship from ArcticStartup. All this is available in the mobile app.
Head over to http://m.arctic15.com on your mobile to check it out - voting will be enabled tomorrow morning!
Alexander Stubb To Patron Arctic15
pa·tron - One that supports, protects, or champions someone or something, such as an institution, event, or cause; a sponsor or benefactor.
We're extremely proud to announce that Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade of Finland, Mr. Alexander Stubb, will act as the patron of Arctic15. This is very exciting as our efforts seem to resonate well in the top end of the Finnish politics. Even though Arctic15 has no political affiliations and we strive to keep it that way, having Alexander Stubb, one of the most international and active stars of the Finnish political scene supporting our event is simply put - fantastic!
Just as a reminder to everyone coming to Arctic15, we're fully sold out so come early - registrations will open 8.00. We've had no last minute changes, so everything is in order for a blow out event!
Tekes Launches Tempo - Puts Feedback Into Practice
Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, has launched a new financing program to support growth companies developing mobile services and applications - Tempo. Having followed Tekes for quite some time and knowing how they operate, one could easily argue that Tempo is a sign of the organisation changing tracks fundamentally and putting most of its feedback into practice. I'll go through a few examples below.
First and foremost, "as agility and customer development are essential in mobile service development, companies must be able to launch a minimum viable product to find out whether there is a customer need for it". This comes in fact from the Tempo pitch itself. They're promoting MVPs as a way to find out if there is demand for services the companies are offering.
The Mobile App Juggernaut Is Only Just Beginning
Editorial note: This is a guest post by Aman Ghei, an early/growth stage Investor at Accel Partners. You can follow him on twitter with @amanghei.
There's a lot of noise lately about whether or not mobile apps are sustainable, or have any future. But so far, and despite some real challenges and issues, mobile apps have been nothing short of success.
The challenges for developers working on mobile apps range from visibility and pick up rates to loyalty and monetization. The majority of revenue generated by app stores today still comes from the top 100 apps and the "long tail" is often ignored. As the demand for smartphone real estate increases, the cost of acquiring new mobile customers is rising rapidly as well. Seamless payment and customer acquisition methods are other big challenges that apps are struggling to solve. Not to mention how inhomogeneous the two leading platforms - iOS and Android- are.
While South Korea Named As Top Tech Market, Nordics Remain The Land Of Promise For Startups
While none of the Nordic or Baltic countries have made it to the very top, despite our wishes, we are proud to see Sweden, Iceland, Denmark and Finland in the top 10 of the latest ICT Development Index (IDI). These global rankings come from the Measuring the Information Society 2011 report, published by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). ITU is the UN agency for information and telecommunications technologies.
The top spot belongs to South Korea. The country has been termed as the most advanced Internet economy in the world and this is the second consecutive year that it has been ranked number one. This is by no means surprising given the fact that South Korea has:
Arctic15 Exclusive: Derek Sivers - Uncommon Sense (7/8)
In the seventh and second last video of the series, Derek Sivers talks about Ideas vs Execution. He goes to talk about the fact that ideas aren't valuable by themselves, but it's the execution that matters. Sivers explains all this through a pretty wacky real-life example. We'll be posting the last bit of the series on Wednesday, just before Arctic15.
Angry Birds: 1 Million Plush Toys And 1 Million T-Shirts Sold Each Month. The Game Isn't All They Have
Angry Birds is phenomenal. It's great, it's growing and it sounds pretty clichéd and something that is apparently obvious to almost everyone. The brand has amassed over 350 million downloads of its game on numerous devices ranging from the iPhone, Android to PCs and PlayStation 3 and that's just the software side. What is also worth mentioning is how they have grown out of the gaming world on consoles to board games, Hollywood movie; RIO to stuffed toys. Calling it the Pac Man of our generation will by no means be wrong, though the comparison may not be totally justified.
The Angry Birds brand has made leaps outside the digital world, especially with their plush toys that they launched back last year. While that only garnered 2 million sales in the first quarter or so, the sales have rocketed to one million each month thereon. That's not it, the plush toys are just half the story and the Angry Birds T-shirts are selling 1 million pieces a month as well.
Xbox Live On Windows 8 Promises Asynchronous Cross Platform Games
We've covered Microsoft's new Windows 8 quite extensively this week on ArcticStartup from the Build conference, but the truth is - all this will have a lot of implications in the different ecosystems regarding mobile operating systems, app stores and what not. Furthermore, enabling Xbox Live to run as an application on Windows 8 OS will have huge possibilities for gaming companies.
Arctic15 Exclusive: Derek Sivers - Uncommon Sense (6/8)
As the series with Derek Sivers is turning to its end, the sixth video is titled "0.1". In this video Derek Sivers shares his thoughts on shipping early and getting traction for your MVP (even though he doesn't really mention the concept in the video). The last two videos, coming out next week will be titled "Ideas vs. Execution" and "CD Baby". The videos will be published on Monday and Wednesday, just before Arctic15.
Facebook Integration Comes With Skype 5.4 Beta For Mac
Skype seems to have speeded up its release of the version for the Mac and the latest update of Skype brings the much needed Facebook integration with Skype 5.4 Beta for Mac. This is similar to the Skype for Windows, and the news is definitely a big plus for Facebook users who own a Mac. Pretty much completes the Skype, Facebook and Mac triangle.
The update will enable Skype users to send instant messages and connect with their Facebook friends, right from their Skype client, giving them the true experience of one stop communication. The update lets users:
Enreach Gives New Powerful Tools For Advertisers And Media
Enreach is a new Finnish startup that has been founded by Kimmo Kiviluoto and Brian Jacobs. Kimmo Kiviluoto is the former CEO and co-founder of another data crunching startup X-tract. Enreach has a good amount of talent and understanding of the online behavior of consumers and the media business. They're also putting this into use in their offering. Enreach in short is giving premium publishers a way to better understand their audiences and then use this to target ads for better monetisation.
When Everything Can Go Wrong – Issues To Be Agreed On In Employment Agreements
I once had a start-up with my dear ex-friends. At the beginning we had great plans for the company's opportunities. In our most enthusiastic moments, we could almost feel the fortunes that were about to change our lives forever. The only issue that we really did not pay enough attention to was that we were about to enter into foreign markets without any practical management knowledge, local managers or even employees.
So what we did was that two of the founding partners (not me) moved to this foreign country, and started to manage the business and work for the company. Everything went well at the beginning and very soon we needed to hire three new employees that we considered at that time to be the most talented ones in the respective business and have the best contacts to safeguard our growth plans.
Ballmer On Microsoft Moving Forward And Nokia
Yesterday at the Build conference Microsot CEO Steve Ballmer made a surprise visit on stage to talk more about how the company views new technologies and what this means for developers. He came out to further promote the importance of Windows 8 for Microsoft and what it also means for the whole company, looking forward. In addition to this, he also mentioned Nokia in his talk, but not in an extensive fashion. According to Ballmer, not only does Windows 8 change the approach to pretty much everything Microsoft works with, but it also changes the way how Microsoft views technology - the release itself will make Microsoft pivot and look at new technologies in a Windows centered fashion.
Arctic15 Exclusive: Derek Sivers - Uncommon Sense (5/8)
In the fifth video of the Derek Sivers - Uncommon Sense -series, Derek Sivers talks about switching your idea if it does not work. Wondering why we're sharing these videos? Check out the first post with Derek Sivers for more information. There are three more videos in the series and we'll release them this coming Friday, Monday and Wednesday - just before Arctic15.


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