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Striking a Balance: Let Scrum Die

I live in Cape Town, South Africa.  Apart from the great beaches, a mountain in the middle of the city, good food, and good wine there is a great enthusiasm...

2 replies - 24555 views - 01/25/11 by Aslam Khan in Articles

Daily Dose - Cassandra 0.7 Complete

A new version of Apache Cassandra is available today.  New features include large row support (up to two billion columns per row), secondary indexes, and...

0 replies - 17998 views - 01/11/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Let's Kill Productivity!

Yes, let's kill productivity! Okay, not productivity but all attempts to measure the productivity of software engineers. It is a flawed, pointless, futile...

2 replies - 4050 views - 12/14/10 by Dan Pritchett in News

Daily Dose - Red Hat Acquires Makara

With their Apache-licensed DeltaCloud project and now with today's acquisition of a Cloud tech startup called Makara, RedHat is building a broad foundation for...

0 replies - 21475 views - 12/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

rPath and CollabNet Partner to Unify Dev and Ops for Continuous Delivery

rPath, the service factory for on-demand IT, and CollabNet®, the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (Agile ALM) in the Cloud, today announced a...

0 replies - 3633 views - 11/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Announcements

Conway's Law

How many of you have heard of Conway's Law? Melvin Conway postulated in 1968 that: ...organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce...

1 replies - 4069 views - 11/29/10 by Dan Pritchett in News

Maintainability, Code Size & Code Complexity

The most maintainable codebase that I worked with grew at a rate of about ~10 KLoC per month, every month. There wasn’t a large team there, it ranged fro...

3 replies - 7798 views - 11/26/10 by Ayende Rahien in News

“Pushbutton” Deployment of Windows/.NET Apps - Videos and Resources

rPath extends its Linux release automation strength to Windows applicationsDeploying .NET and other Windows Applications is complex, time-consuming and...

0 replies - 4586 views - 11/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Announcements

Daily Dose - GWT 2.1 RC1 Adds 2.2 Features

Developers are getting GWT (Google Web Toolkit) features that were originally planned for version 2.2 by downloading the 2.1 RC1 version, which was just...

0 replies - 23908 views - 10/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

What Innovation Looks Like

Check out "End User 2.0: When Employees Have All The Answers" in InformationWeek. This is about adoption of non-approved technology. Think...

0 replies - 2032 views - 09/17/10 by Steven Lott in News

The Importance of Human Dynamics in Software Development

Have you ever been on a team of aces – the best of the best – and failed?  Have you ever been on a team that consisted of average people, found your...

0 replies - 7316 views - 08/12/10 by Amr Elssamadisy in Articles

Daily Dose - Spring Ignites GemFire 1.0

Several months after the acquisition of GemStone, Spring has officially released a project integrating the company's technology.  The first milestone of...

1 replies - 17884 views - 08/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Check Out the EJB on That JBoss AS

The fourth JBoss Application Server 6.0 milestone was released this week.  It is the first to include support for EJB 3.1 Timer Service and EJB 3.1...

1 replies - 14166 views - 07/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Rails 3 Arrives at First RC Station

Since the last beta, Ruby on Rails 3.0 has had over 842 commits by 125 developers.  That's the level of polish you can expect when you download the first...

0 replies - 15479 views - 07/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Get Started with NoSQL and Data Scalability!

Download your free copy of our newest Refcard on Getting Started with NoSQL and Data Scalability now! This DZone Refcard demystifies NoSQL and data...

0 replies - 16593 views - 07/06/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Announcements