Software As She’s Developed

Here’s the second of four podcasts on agile software development. The first is available here. This 42 minute podcast is a survey of six methodologies and the men (yes, they are) behind them. The methodologies discussed are (with creators or prominent proponents parenthesised). Scrum (Ken Schwaber) Crystal. (Alistair Cockburn) And here’s a link to Alistair Cockburn’s thesis that […]

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A Tech Podcasters group - perhaps something like a tech version of the Podsquad- is in the making. I needed a break during a longer-than-desirable Audacity session yesterday (yes, it will eventually crash on you, save often). Triggered by some comments in an In The Trenches podcast, I remembered this callout by Todd of GeekNewsCentral. […]

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The B&H Photo Video Pro Audio Checkout Page lets you bypass the registration process if you want, and just buy the damn product. Brilliant! Registration is a big barrier to E-Commerce transactions. It’s time-consuming, error-prone, and forces people to remember yet another password - or reduce security by reusing an existing password. I recall studies showing […]

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Wow! It’s actually possible to give a concise, hype-free, overview of Prevalence - an in-memory Java persistence framework - in 500 words or less. Trust Cameron Purdy to do it. In this response to an interview with Prevalence lead, Klaus Wuesterfeld.

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With ubiquitous mobile phone usage, ipod accessories galore, and tiny devices, maybe wearable is starting to happen

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Here are some terms from my universe over the past twelve months:

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Amazon, with all their inventory and knowledge, is well placed to create a substantial book rental market

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Congratulations to google for proving it’s still possible to innovate in simple but powerful ways. Google Suggest brings auto-completion to the world of search. Simple idea, albeit technically challenge to scale, and amazing that none of the Google wannabees can’t come up with something like this first. Slashdot posters have noticed some interesting trivia: Since […]

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Fascinating panel (Joho) with e-campaign managers Michale Turk - for Bush - and Joe Trippi - for Dean). Except … where’s the podcasting? If one thing is certain about US Election 2008, it’s time-shifted speeches and discussions.

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Update: Podcast missing * Enclosed is a podcast on interfaces as services. Agile Business Coach, Chris Matts, blogged a couple of times this week about how interfaces should emerge by looking at the objects that use them. I agree, and wanted to give my own thoughts. Important concept, as it’s driving many trends in architecture: dependency […]

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