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It would appear that SOA is coming down off the hype cycle after a few years as the preminent buzzword. CIO magazine has a cover story on The Truth About SOA. CIOs need to pursue an SOA strategy carefully because the service development and architecture planning pieces of SOA are distinct but not independent—they need [...] Rands in Repose has done a great series on Deconstructing Managers recently where he touches on one-on-ones. Managers who don’t have a plan to regularly talk to everyone on their team are deluded. They believe they are going to learn what is going on in their group through some magical organizational osmosis and they won’t. [...] About a week ago I signed up with our local Java Users Group to do a talk on Fitnesse, since they hadn’t been able to line up any speakers. The talk went fairly well and there were quite a few questions which is always a good sign. It did force me to bone up on [...] OK, I admit it I’m a simpleton when it comes to scoping things in Java. Out of all four possible keywords for scoping access I manage to use two: public private I realize there’s probably a good reason where I’d want to use protected or default scope, but I just haven’t run across one. I [...] My personal recharging battery techniques, for those times when you just can’t stomach another article on the newest web framework. Disconnect where reasonable. Sometimes on vacation this is pretty easy, but since you’re a bit burned out and still probably at work, concentrate on some of the non-technical aspects of your job that don’t get [...] I got a pleasant surprise recently when I checked out the Fitnesse.org site and found a fleshed out Hunt The Wumpus example. Up until now the basic examples on the Fitnesse site were really too simple. The examples in the FIT book are more elaborate, but I found the book itself to be one of [...] I’ve held off using a tool for our code reviews because I didn’t see one that was available that supported a fairly lightweight process. One exception to this was the Eclipse Jupiter code review plugin which we can now use because almost all of our developers have migrated to RAD. (Also suggested by Tim Shadel [...] On at least one of our Scrum projects the daily Scrums aren’t popular with the developers on the team. My best guess is that they need to adjust their format a bit. Typically the developers just read off the spreadsheet numbers on their tasks: 1OK, I did 34 and 36, and take 2 hours off [...] I’ve finally gotten around to reading The World is Flat since I’ve had some downtime recovering from a nasty flu. It’s one of those talked about business books that you sort of need to read so you know when people are referring to it. Very simple synopsis is that everything in the world can now [...] The Braidy Tester reports on how he tried to institute Agile on a team in short order. After presenting a bunch of practices including pairing, mini-milestones, and people working on fewer features at time he waited for management to respond. Management’s response: In case you hadn’t guessed, none of my suggestions were enacted. I [...] |
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