Red Squirrel Reflections Dave Hoover explores the psychology of software development

This is completely off topic but something happened to me tonight that will probably never happen to me again. Tonight was my first time playing tournament-style no limit Texas hold 'em. Four of my fellow ThoughtWorkers and I ordered some pizza to our hotel, grabbed some beer (and beef jerky) and played hold 'em for hours on end. About an hour before the game was finally over, I came up with this glorious hand, a royal flush!

Thanks to Obie for teaching us the rules and taking the photo.

Update: Maybe a royal flush is not once in a lifetime thing. I just got another one this week. Oh well.

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RtP is already proving its worth on our current project. I brought the book along with me this week to leave in plain view of my teammates and to see what happened. It was picked up by a number of people and we identified two refactorings (Inline Singleton and Replace Conditional Dispatcher with Command) that we were currently executing. These two refactorings were second nature to our senior developers and having these refactorings in the RtP catalog facilitates the learning of these refactorings for the rest of us.

That is what a pattern book should aspire to be: Distilling the common knowledge of expert practitioners.

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