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Google & Spring Collaborate To Advance Cloud Java Development
VMware and Google today announced an early November 2010 'general availability' of their collaborative projects to move Java-based cloud development forward by bringing the Google Web Toolkit to Spring Roo, integrating Spring Insight with Google Speed Tracer, and incorporating Google Plugin for Eclipse into the Eclipse-based SpringSource Tool Suite.
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Big Changes at Scrum Alliance
The Scrum Alliance has a new Managing Director, Donna Farmer. She issued an introductory email to Scrum Alliance members on Wednesday, soliciting feedback on the organization, and providing her email and phone number. Earlier, former creative director of the Scrum Alliance Tobias Mayer summarily quit his role in the organization, later making mention of the Scrum Alliance in a volatile blog post.
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The Future of WCF Is RESTful [Updated]
Glenn Block, a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Program Manager, said during an online webinar entitled “WCF, Evolving for the Web” that Microsoft’s framework for building service-oriented applications is going to be refactored radically, the new architecture being centered around HTTP.
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Apple Deprecates Java
As well as yesterday's back to the Mac presentation, Apple released a number of updates, including Java for 10.6 update 3, which brings the Java version to 1.6.0_22 and fixes numerous security holes. Significantly, though, in the release notes Apple signs its exit to the Java licensee space by making Java deprecated and hinting at its removal from 10.7 OSX Lion.
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Tips for Release Planning with Distributed Scrum
With teams in the US and India, how does one make release planning work? What if the team isn't even able to do their planning at the same time because of the time difference?
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Maven Central mirror in Europe
Sonatype have created a mirror of Maven Central in Europe. If you use Maven, and you're based in Europe, you should update your maven settings to point to it for faster asset acquisition.
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Scrum Does Not Have a ProductMaster Role
A common question across multiple forums is about the acceptability of combining the ScrumMaster and Product Owner role. While most Agilists believe that these roles are like oil and water, there are situations where combining them might be inevitable.
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Ray Ozzie Steps Down as Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, has stepped down and will retire from Microsoft after five years as strategist pushing the idea of online services and cloud computing.
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Constantine on combining Agile and User Experience
Usability and Teamwork author and consultant Larry Constantine recently wrote two articles about the “Interfaith Marriage” between experience design and agile development. He examines the inherent conflict between the agile and UX perspectives and provides some concrete advice on how to integrate the two into a creative and productive union.
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QCon San Francisco in 3 Weeks; Conference Highlights
The 4th annual QCon San Francisco is taking place just 3 weeks from now, the chance to register is quickly approaching. The program includes three conference days with over 80 speakers in 15 tracks covering a wide variety of relevant and exciting topics in software development today. Attendance has increased 15% over last year, we hope you'll be able to join us!
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Does Agile Promote Perpetual Beta?
Agile software development promotes teamwork, collaboration, and process adaptability throughout the life-cycle of the project. More often than not, this also leads to a lower time to market with a minimum marketable feature set. New features are slipped in every iteration and often the product remains in perpetual beta.
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Membase Server publicly available from Membase Inc.
Enterprise and Community Edition of Membase Server are publicly available from today from Membase Inc. (formerly NorthScale Inc.) the provider of the widely used Memcached Caching infrastructure.
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Maven 3.0 Released
Sonatype today announced the release of Maven 3, the biggest change since Maven 2 was released in 2005. The release of Maven 3 has been backed up by significant automated testing using open-source projects in the field to try and prevent backward incompatibilities. As a result, Maven 3 should just be a drop-in replacement for Maven 2, with an increase in performance.
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Sociology and Scrum
The Scrum Master job requires skills in diplomacy-- and effective communication. Team members must also communicate effectively. Tools for accomplishing these "soft-skill" tasks are now freely available. A detailed book about one of these useful tools entitled SOFTWARE FOR YOUR HEAD, is over 400 pages in total, and is now available-- free to the world in PDF format.
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Selling Scrum to Your Manager?
Trying to Sell Scrum to Management? Failing and wondering why? This often happens in the days after someone returns from a CSM course ready to help change the world.