Daniel Spiewak has a nice post on comparing JRuby with Scala for a simple script. Some minor errors, and discussion about how to write them best in the comments. But overall a pretty good comparison.
At least for a Java guy like me, I think Scala will be much easier to pick up. And I even get to keep my strong typing. 😉
Michael Bolton won an award for his talk on two futures of software testing. The message of it is in essence for testers to focus on the needs of the business instead of the plan. Even though it’s a presentation it has lots of notes and a lot of nice stuff there that turns testers to being more agile. Check it out.
Mattias Skarin has a post on Agile for support and operations in 5 min. A bit thin on information, but it has some interesting concepts like kanban boards and visualization of cycle time.