Set Up a Virtualhost for Your Rails App on Localhost on OSX

You can map http://myapp.dev:80 to http://localhost:3000 easily.

Patrick Lencioni's The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

According to the book, the five dysfunctions are:

• Absence of trust—unwilling to be vulnerable within the group
• Fear of conflict—seeking artificial harmony over constructive passionate debate
• Lack of commitment—feigning buy-in for group decisions creates ambiguity throughout the organization
• Avoidance of accountability—ducking the responsibility to call peers on counterproductive behavior which sets low standards
• Inattention to results—focusing on personal success, status and ego before team success

Patrick Lencioni's The Three Signs of a Miserable Job

There are three areas in addressing job misery.

• People must feel that what they do is relevant and important. ("irrelevance")
• People must feel that they are known and cared about. ("anonymity")
• People thrive in an environment where they are given feedback. ("immeasurement")

"Managers who take the time to get to know their people on a personal basis and help them connect what they do with why it is important, go a long way toward engaging the heart, mind and soul of their team. To keep the "what and why" top-of-mind with employees, successful managers use performance measures to provide feedback to each individual so each one can self manage toward better outcomes."

"You don’t grow companies, you grow people and people grow companies"

Git Grep with Git Blame

If you ever wished you could run git blame on the results of git grep then have a look at this

How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub

I finally got to see Zach Holman's talk on 'How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub', it was great.

He describes a process based on a simple branching strategy; branching master to a feature branch, when finished merged back or thrown away, also open a pull request to welcome discussion around the code/feature/strategy and guarantee quality.

Master is always deployable and passes CI, so everyone can push to master and everyone can deploy, which let people have responsibility over their code and frees up time from micromanaging someone else's code.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

It is an important book on introverts (a vast proportion of the reading public) to tell them how awesome and undervalued they are.

Jon Ronson interviewing Susan Cain

Susan Cain's TED talk

Git checkout an earlier state of master