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Agile Development: why it rocks, who it helps, and why it's failing

The Agile method was the best thing that happened to me in my career as a developer. Before I came across Agile, one of my biggest frustrations was the...

1 replies - 638 views - 08/27/08 by sarajo in News

Lean Software Development

While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to deliver...

0 replies - 1875 views - 08/26/08 by Jay Fields in News

Incremental Migration

Like any profession, software development has it's share of oft-forgotten activities that are usually ignored but have a habit of biting back at just the...

0 replies - 149 views - 08/22/08 by martinfowler in News

Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea

Microsoft recently released SP1 for .NET.

0 replies - 3824 views - 08/18/08 by arnonrgo in News

Evolving Architectures - Architecture Retrospective

Retrospectives, every "agile" team does retrospectives.What are retrospectives anyway?A retrospective is a meeting where the team takes a look and...

1 replies - 1415 views - 08/13/08 by arnonrgo in News

BPMN to BPEL: Going to Battle With One Hand Tied?

I have been looking at business process modeling and I am a bit puzzled about the connections between the different goals (strategy support, process...

2 replies - 1131 views - 08/11/08 by vambenepe in News

Animoto.com is no infrastructure flexibility benchmark

I have nothing against Animoto. From what I know about them (mostly from John’s podcast with Brad Jefferson) they built their system, using EC2, in a very...

1 replies - 1303 views - 07/22/08 by vambenepe in News

Running mod_rails on Leopard (OSX 10.5)

From the command line:gem install passengersudo passenger-install-apache2-moduleThe Apache 2 module was successfully installed. Please edit your Apache...

2 replies - 826 views - 07/04/08 by danielwanja in News

Java and Mocking

I've just spent my first three days on a project in Leeds. It's a pretty common Java project, RESTful services and some MVC screens. We have been using Mockito...

4 replies - 3497 views - 07/04/08 by olabini in News

BBC Dumps Microsoft For Adobe AIR

The BBC has been using Microsoft technologies for widgets that are used by "hundreds of thousands of users". And they have just publicly stated that...

0 replies - 861 views - 07/02/08 by BenForta in News

Flash Content Is Now Searchable

Adobe has announced new technologies that will allow SWF content to be indexed and searchable, not just text in the SWF, but also data...

0 replies - 929 views - 07/01/08 by BenForta in News

SWF is Searchable

Adobe SWF files that run in the flash player will now be searchable. Adobe published SWF searchability FAQ earlier this morning explaining the details of what...

0 replies - 782 views - 07/01/08 by Shashank Tiwari in News

Saving Twitter in Three Easy Steps

I don’t think I’m alone in seeing Twitter’s service deteriorate to the point where euthanasia seems like the only humane option.Without any obvious...

0 replies - 524 views - 06/30/08 by peterelst in News

TheServerSide Java Symposium Europe is Over

Well, I'm home from Prague, from another edition of TheServerSide Java Symposium. This year was definitely a few notches up from last year in Barcelona in my...

0 replies - 1776 views - 06/26/08 by olabini in News

MAX 2008 Sessions Posted

The MAX USA 2008 site is now up, and the schedule is now online too complete with the session list. Register now! Oh, and the site background is...

0 replies - 455 views - 06/26/08 by BenForta in News