Archive for the 'Agility' Category

Seattle Java User Group: Introducing Agile Development to Your Organization

Introducing Agile Development to Your Organization October 16th (evening): Seattle Java User Group In this presentation, James Shore will discuss the patterns and trends he’s seen in over seven years of helping teams adopt agile methods. Learn about the three basic approaches to agile adoption (whole-hog, structure-first, and technology-first) [...]

Law of Demeter, MVC views, and the Presenter pattern

Over on Pivotal Blabs there is an interesting post Lovely Demerter, Meter Maid commenting on the last section of Misunderstanding Law of Demeter by Dan Manges. I’m a big fan of making views (the V in MVC) compliant with LoD by using the Presenter Pattern in Rails, go have a read and let us [...]

Stalk me if you love to W rite T ests F irst!

Thanks to Google Maps new feature, Street View, if you’d like a free coffee come stalk me! You can see the door to the apartment I’m staying in while being in San Francisco by clicking here . Be the first (or one of the first before I run out of coffee money) and I’ll [...]

Boarding Airplanes: A study of queues

I am a certified dork because papers about boarding airplanes interest me.

Analog Concurrency: Boarding a Plane Linked from the above in the comments is this paper: Novel Approaches to Airplane Boarding (PDF Link)

Who’s going to make the extra tutorials and better docs?

Answer: your user community. User Community and ROI

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