Running around in the maze
Sep 18 2008
So JavaZone 2008 is over. Had a blast, and saw lots of cool stuff. It was a bit crowded some times, and a bit too many talks was full, but all in all good. Just a short summary for on the good stuff:
Heidi Arnesen Austlid on Open Source in the public sector – The government [...]
Sep 15 2008
Geoff Watts was in Oslo a while back giving a talk on how British Telecom introduced Scrum to the organisation. Important elements in his talk was how to motivate, and how to let experience gained in some teams propagate to other teams. To summarize in short it was by stating the goal instead of how [...]
Sep 06 2008
It seems like Facebok is pretty agile in how it handles new features and roll outs. According to an article on the High Scalability site they actually do major releases every week. One of the things that struck me was this:
Be Innovative, Not Safe. Fear of failure often shuts down the organizational brain and makes [...]
Sep 01 2008
I’m still out on if the database as a service is a good or bad idea. I am leaning towards the latter though.
One of the scary things most developers do today is refactoring the database. I actually think a lot of good refactorings just isn’t done because it becomes a large and daunting task when [...]
Sep 01 2008
A quote of a quote in a InfoQ article on the release of GWT 1.5:
Key point: GWT gives you a lot of leverage, but it isn’t intended to be a “walled garden” in any way. Abstractions always leak, so it’s better to embrace that fact. We intentionally make it easy for you to punch through [...]