Here’s an interesting story about why many companies struggle applying agile methodologies – the roots of anti-agile. Last month, I did the performance appraisal of Ellaine, a trainee hired from college 6 months ago. She graduated from a prestigious, traditional, all-girls school run by Nuns who values academic excellence, etc. The discussion…
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“Definition of Done” is a common term used in agile development. It is a simple phrase, yet very powerful. Many of us ignore this, until we understand and realize that it is happening all around us. What is your definition of done? When do you say something is “done”?
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How can you ensure that during development, all developers works on the latest database schema to reduce code conflicts? And during production roll-out, how can you ensure that applications on different servers are compatible and consistent with their respective database schema?
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After experiencing a number of production roll-outs, on both blade and rack mounted servers, I began to think about the advantages of one over the other. In general, blade servers sounded like a better approach, but it appears to be more of a marketing hype than reality.
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With the growing projects, we’ve decided to upgrade our test servers to a production grade server and setup virtual machines within the server. This move really makes sense because instead of allocating a workstation for each project as test machine, we are cutting it down into one server with multiple test VMs.
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We’ve seen effective use of dashboards with various applications. Dashboard shows the summary of the entire system operations in just one page. In addition, they make your application look cool and more interactive with use of graphs and charts. So now its your turn to create a dashboard for your killer app, here are some tips to make it more effective.
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It’s been 2 weeks since I installed Karmic Koala, the latest version of Ubuntu. After having to use Windows Vista and Mac Leopard for quite some time, here are some of my reviews and opinions on Karmic Koala in terms of system installation, speed performance, interface usability, software application and product reliability/security.
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While there are a number of resources on the net talking about converting images to tiff in Java using JAI, I wasn’t able to come across one that works on a Mac. JAI is a separate download from the JDK and unfortunately, there are no mac version of JAI that can be downloaded from the Sun site. Upon reviewing the jar files included in OSX, I found…
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