Mark Booth

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I'm a geek, a role-player and a biker.

I work for Diamond Light Source, developing open source scientific software for the UK national synchrotron facility. In the past I have worked in the robotics, mechatronics and laser micro-machining industries.

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87	What is the Best Way to Incentivize a Team of Developers?
70	Is micro-optimisation important when coding?
62	Why is 80 characters the 'standard' limit for code width?
44	Preparing to release code as open-source
40	When is unit testing inappropriate or unnecessary?

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+70	Why is 80 characters the 'standard' limit for code width?
+10	Why is the “kill” command called so?
+10	Using git correctly in a small team
+10	Does the LGPL allow me to do this?

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6	Can I use the test suite from an open source project to verify that my own 'compatible library' is compatible?

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75 open-source × 13	38 mercurial × 11
62 coding-standards	38 terminology × 4
51 licensing × 15	36 java × 7
45 git × 11	35 programming-languages × 10