Archive for January, 2008

Light Hearted Approach to Some Common Problems

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Henrik Kniberg posted slides for a presentation called 10 ways to screw up With Scrum and XP.  If you have been involved with Scrum teams, these slides will immediately ring true.
One change I might suggest for the team work one is maybe get a graphic of people in a sinking rowboat and a message bubble [...]

Insightful Podcast on Ajax Security

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I listened to Phil Windley’s podcast, Technometria, where he had a great discussion with Billy Hoffman on Ajax Security exploits. This is a great listen if you are a developer that is moving to the wonderful world of Rich client Web Applications.
One thing that reinforced ideas of why GWT might be a good idea [...]

Getting The Team to Use Planning Poker

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

This week turned out to be a turning point for one of the projects I interact with.  After constant nagging to the project leaders that we needed to get some indication of size for the backlog items that was determined by the teams, they finally made the bold step of educating the teams and requesting [...]

links for 2008-01-23

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Ruby QuickRef
Single page reference of Ruby stuff
(tags: reference ruby)

links for 2008-01-21

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Dandelife.com : A Social Biography Network.
AN interesting tool to investigate for cataloging things.
(tags: timeline web2.0 social biography blog socialsoftware community aggregator)

links for 2008-01-18

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Pandora.com Profile for hoshposh
Profile page for the Pandora.com streaming music service.
(tags: music streaming social artists radio)

links for 2008-01-16

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

How To Solve a Rubik’s Cube | How To Do Things.com
Nice animated examples that might help the kids with their toys.
(tags: howto rubik cube games puzzle)

links for 2008-01-10

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Jazz
Fun software development collaboration environment built on top of the Eclipse platform. Promoted by Erich gamma in a recent podcast interview on SE-Radio.net
(tags: eclipse collaboration jazz ibm development ide software)

Great Interview on SE-Radio with Erich Gamma

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

I downloaded an interview on Software Engineering Radio with Erich Gamma.  It was a very good listen.

Erich Gamma Interview

One thing that intrigued me from the interview was a reference to a project/product that provides collaborative software development”, called Jazz.  The only disappointment was the fact that it will be a commercial product, though there will [...]

Picasa 2.7 Beta for Linux

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Not sure where I found this, but Google have release a newer version of Picasa for Linux.  This is 2.7 beta and runs on wine (all prepackaged).
All I need is Web Album support from Google Apps and life will get a little easier with the account juggling
Technorati Tags: picasa, linux