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Daily Dose: First Beta of Adobe AIR 2.7 Available On Labs

Developers can now take the Adobe AIR 2.7 for a test drive!  Currently, the beta is only available for desktops.  Acoustic Echo Cancellation allows the user...

0 replies - 9427 views - 04/04/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Delegation Poker (Game Description)

The Delegation Poker game was first played at the Scrum Gathering in Amsterdam. Since then I had people play it in a number of workshops, and I...

1 replies - 3515 views - 03/18/11 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Daily Dose: Introducing Drizzle: A New, Lightweight Version of MySQL

Drizzle is the latest lightweight fork originating from Oracle's MySQL database.  The Drizzle development team has eliminated all of the features they...

2 replies - 23250 views - 03/17/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Top 15 Systems Thinking Books

I know. I have not been very kind to systems thinking in my recent “Complexity vs. Lean” presentation. But most systems thinkers are nice and smart...

3 replies - 5282 views - 03/15/11 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Daily Dose: Mozilla Opens Up App Shop!

After a long wait, Mozilla is finally getting into the app game. Interested developers can access Mozilla's JavaScript API here. Several apps are ready for...

0 replies - 17851 views - 03/06/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

ALM Development Practices Part 1: An Introduction

As part of my many assignments, I’m compiling a bunch of Application Lifecycle Management practices into a set of development guidelines for...

0 replies - 5444 views - 03/01/11 by Dennis Doomen in News

Pomodoro: Observations from giving it a go

I learnt about the pomodoro technique a couple of years ago and while I did try it out sporadically back then, it’s only recently that I thought I’d...

0 replies - 4522 views - 02/21/11 by Mark Needham in Articles

Daily Dose: Infamous Java Floating Point Bug Finally Fixed!

Users of Java SE and Java for Business can now code in a  less error-prone environment. Update 24 for Java 6 spells the end of the floating point bug reported...

0 replies - 30495 views - 02/17/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Multiple asserts – done right

If you’ve been writing unit tests for some time or seen a good presentation on how to write unit tests you probably heard the “One assert per test” ...

0 replies - 2362 views - 02/17/11 by Dror Helper in News

Where Enterprise Architecture and Project Management Intersect

My long-term readers know that I function as an enterprise architect and project manager (but not both simultaneously) and that I have taught (and continue...

1 replies - 3858 views - 02/08/11 by Robert McIlree in News

Agile Chronicles #3: Branch Workflow

The Agile Chronicles is a set of articles documenting my experiences using an Agile process (Scrum) in software development on my current Flex...

1 replies - 1732 views - 02/04/11 by Jesse Warden in News

WebDriver: now at Sauce Labs

WebDriver now runs against Sauce Labs‘ testing service – using many different browsers.  And you can pay by the hour.  This is awesome: Selenium was a...

0 replies - 3225 views - 02/03/11 by Julian Simpson in News

Don’t avoid difficult tasks

I was late to work yesterday. Everything was going well – I had my year old daughter, her bag, my bag, my car keys and was ready to leave I got to the door...

0 replies - 6393 views - 02/01/11 by Dror Helper in News

Can You Go From Zero to Hero by using SaaS?

I was reading through some updates on a few social networking sites.  When I came across a link posted by one of my friends, Josh Minton,  who posted an...

1 replies - 3402 views - 01/31/11 by Steve Ciske in News

A Pattern Worth Repeating

Someone once told me that if you wish to curse a company then give them your code but not the people who wrote it. I can attest to the truth of this from...

0 replies - 720 views - 01/26/11 by Dele Sikuade in News