Last year I was lucky enough to watch Ivar Jacobson presenting his current work on software development processes. This work is summarized in the 3-parts article Ivar published in Dr. Dobbs magazine named “Enough of Processes: Let’s Do Practices”. In the first part, Jacobson describes a series of problems with processes and concludes:
What Do These […]
Some days ago ABC released their Internet TV project. The website tries to bring an experience similar to the Apple TV/Windows Media Centre, with fully featured menus and metadata on the video clips. The default behaviour for the video player is to be in full-screen, a clue that maybe ABC is interested in people that […]
Disclaimer: I’ve never read the book but I love the title.
Reading this I have to ask (once more):
Mashup server?! WTF? How long until we see something like JSR-666: Mashuplets?
I was just reading Better Software’s latest edition. In a fantastic article Clinton Keith and Mike Cohn describe guidelines on how to fail an agile project (with style!). Based on earlier posts it is quite obvious that my favourite is #9:
Merrilynn was able to use this guideline to kill her company’s pilot agile project. […]
Another […]
Ajaxian.com published an article on Ojay, an interesting JavaScript library that rests on top of Yahoo!’s YUI. The library has a DSLish way of expressing form validation rules, like in these snippets from their website:
form(’signup’)
.requires(’username’).toHaveLength({minimum: 6})
.requires(’email’).toMatch(EMAIL_FORMAT, ‘must be a valid email address’)
.expects(’email_conf’).toConfirm(’email’)
.expects(’title’).toBeOneOf([’Mr’, ‘Mrs’, ‘Miss’])
.requires(’dob’, ‘Birth […]
Dan North just blogged about how the DRY may not apply to stories/tests/specs:
But then I saw a pattern beginning to emerge. The test code was starting to read like a story. He would introduce these little methods and classes just before their one walk-on line in the narrative. It was quite an eye-opener for me […]
May 2008’s edition of Harvard Business Review has an article titled ‘Rebuilding the R&D Engine in BigPharma’. In this article Jean-Pierre Garnier -CEO of GlaxoSmithKline- talks about the changes that BigPharma’s R&D process has to face to stay competitive in the new market.
See if you find anything familiar in these quotes:
The most significant [of the […]
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