My current reading list is loaded with some highly recommended books on Lean System thinking and the theory of constraints. There are a lot of cross-concepts between these two areas and its been good to compare the ideas together.

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Over the last few years I have learnt a number of techniques that introduce lean system thinking into running development projects. This is a summary of the techniques I have found useful and examples of how I have applied them.

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A lot of source code is written using mono-spaced fonts which seems odd when you consider most other published text you read uses a proportional font (eg. this blog post).

When reading a coding book, all of the text is in a nice proportional font so you can quickly read thorough the book, yet any source code included is often written in mono type just to make it lined up or to distinguish it from the rest of the text.

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It is not uncommon in IT projects that you are required to learn something on the fly or you see an opportunity to introduce a new technique or tool that would bring great benefits to a project.

How do you manage the learning curve required for something new without major impact to the project?

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Having an inquisitive minds is a great thing but there can be a tenancy to be interested in too many things that you never learn something deeply enough. How do you stop the inquisitive monster in you mind and get on with just one thing?

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When I started thinking about cloud computing, I asked myself some questions:

• Is cloud something new?
• Do we know what cloud is?
• Is cloud just the sum of all the services available on the Internet?
• Are we really moving towards something new (the cloud) or away from something current/legacy (the local data centre)?

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I’ve added a new task to my personal kanban to look into how the Drizzle project would provide a high performance database system for the cloud.

As the project is still in alpha phase it will be interesting to see what concepts and features are discussed through the projects growth. I hope studying Drizzle will give me another perspective on the transition of computing to the cloud.

I’m also adding Planet Drizzle to my Google Reader account to keep up with the Drizzle project news.

Thank you.
@jr0cket

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If you find your browsing a little slow or find that some sites are blocked by your ISP, then you can try using the Google Public DNS as an alternative (full set up details). Here is the how and why of setting up your Internet connection via Google DNS on Ubuntu.

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