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JSF 2.0 New Feature Preview Series (Part 4) Resource Re-location

This is the sixth entry in the JSF 2.0 New Feature Preview Series. The last entry covered the new event system. For this entry,...

2 replies - 1780 views - 10/15/08 by Ryan Lubke in News

Startup School 08

Startup School is one of the most enjoyable hangouts for the folks who want to code their way to successful startups fame. A few 08 sessions are avilable...

0 replies - 1827 views - 09/15/08 by Shashank Tiwari in News

Secretaries Make the Best ScrumMasters

Okay... so my writing is slowing down again.

0 replies - 2761 views - 09/07/08 by mcottmeyer in News

Agile Project Status Reporting

A little while ago I wrote about agile project management and how agile

0 replies - 1625 views - 09/02/08 by Kelly Waters in News

Using REST along other architecture styles

Following my latest post on evolving the architecture Dru asked me for more details on our RESTful control channels. For one you can take a look at slide...

0 replies - 1415 views - 09/01/08 by arnonrgo in News

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...

2 replies - 1896 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 - 3641 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 - 960 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 - 5514 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 - 2493 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 - 2249 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 - 2003 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 - 1478 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 - 4409 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 - 1535 views - 07/02/08 by BenForta in News