Running around in the maze
Oct 23 2008
Toyota is the ever recurring example of lean success. It is the basis of most things lean, and deserves all the credit. We should however find new examples and stories, grinding the Toyota story to convince people can get a bit old.
Having said that, I ran across the points called Toyotaism on Mike Wroblewski’s blog. [...]
Oct 22 2008
James Shore has a post explaining kanban, the reason for doing it and some tips on when he thinks the technique works best. A good read.
Which reminds me that I have his book on my bookshelf screaming to be read. Got to find time to read it soon.
Oct 19 2008
The US National Security Agency has released a case study showing how to develop zero-defect code in a cost-effective manner. Diomidis D. Spinellis has taken a closer look at the claims and the code released for this project. At first when I read through the article I agree with most his points, but it gets [...]
Oct 15 2008
It’s been a little while since they were put online, but if you havn’t seen it check it out. These are my recommendations:
Guerrilla SOA with Jim Webber: Great talk that removes the bullshit from SOA.
Qi4j – a new approach to old problems with Rickard Öberg: A mind boggling way to look at solving our problems.
The [...]
Oct 12 2008
I’ve looked into some of the regexp plug-ins for Eclipse today, and QuickREx is, in my opinion, the best one out there.
If you have other favourites, please inform me:-)
The contributors to this project has also implemented a plug-in for developing XPath expressions.