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Juggernaut: Real-time communication for your Rails views
Alex MacCaw Ruby on Rails releases Juggernaut, a Rails plugin that provides a real-time socket connection between Rails views and a message bus / data server.
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Studies Concur, Small Teams Are Best
Knowledge@Wharton asks: Is Your Team Too Big? Too Small? What's the Right Number? Decades of research suggest the sweetspot may be between 4 and 6, though corrections to team size are unlikely to resolve all of a team's problems.
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InfoQ Book Review: Collaboration Explained
David Spann introduces Jean Tabaka's book: "Collaboration Explained" in which she shares stories and facilitation techniques to make groups more effective, and provides templates to get them started.
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Buildix: Agile Java Toolset on a Disk
Buildix version 1.1, released today, provides teams with rapid and straightforward setup of a complete Agile Java development environment, including Continuous Integration, Source Control, a Wiki and a Bug-Tracker. The Thoughtworks developers who created it call it "an Agile development platform on a disk".
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Collaboration Tools Free - But Vulnerable
For the classic XP team, developers and their customer all work daily in the same room. But other methodologies are less stringent, and even XP teams sometimes need to find compromises. Enter collaborative technologies - where they are allowed. But take note: Bit9, Inc. has compiled a list of the top applications with known security vulnerabilities, including Skype and 4 messenger programs.
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CodePlex comes out of beta
Microsoft's shared source project repository, CodePlex has emerged from its public beta, as announced yesterday at the Open Source Business Conference in London. Similar in concept to SourceForge, and Microsoft's earlier .NET community effort GotDotNet, CodePlex is based on Microsoft's Team Foundation Server.
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"Agile Practice" Patterns Wiki is Up
At XP2006, Amr Elssamadisy announced a new wiki site for collecting Agile Practice Patterns. Well, it's up and ready to go, already loaded with patterns from ChiliPlop 2006 and XP 2006 conferences.
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Upcoming Features in Team Foundation Server SP1
Brian Harry, Product Unit Manager for Visual Studio Team Foundation, wrote about upcoming features for Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1 today. No specific timeframe has been announced, but a beta should be coming shortly.
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Tagging for Knowledge Management
Some dismiss Web 2.0 as a new trend, not yet ready for prime time, but we should not lose sight of the fact that Ward Cunningham's WikiWikiWeb, an early Web 2.0 technology, has been an important tool for many Agile teams since 1995. Is "tagging" another opportunity to enhance enterprise collaboration through emergent knowledge categorization?
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Visual Studio Team Edition For Database Professionals
Microsoft has announced the upcoming availability of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. This product is intended to close the communication gap that all too often exists between database professionals and the rest of the development team.
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Distributed Teams Can be Effective...Enough
Scrum, being an Agile approach to teamwork, emphasises team co-location. So why is Esther Derby, ScrumMaster, writing about distributed teams? They pose real communication challenges, but are a reality in many organisations adopting Agile, and Esther notes "you can't just hope that communication will work." In this article, she offers Five Tactics to Compensate for Distance on Distributed Teams.
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Microsoft Launches CodePlex Online Development Environment
Microsoft has launched the Beta of CodePlex, an online software development environment for open and shared source developers to create, host and manage projects throughout the project lifecycle. Codeplex was developed from scratch using C# 2.0 with Team Foundation Server as the backend.
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"If you can't say something nice..."
David Anderson reflected recently on one simple tool for building trust in the workplace. What a difference a few words can make.
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SOA Meets Web 2.0 at SOA Executive Forum
InfoWorld is holding an SOA Executive today at which an expert panel discussed Web 2.0 in the context of SOA, how businesses can develop composite apps outside the firewall using technologies typically considered Web 2.0.