Let’s take a look at the agile manifesto. It starts with: “We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware” Next are the values. I’m not going to bother with the “right” side, which is of course the “dark side”. On the left we have: Individuals and interactions Working software Customer collaboration Responding to change All this
The answer is yes. Microsoft is killing off Silverlight. Don’t underestimate the truth said in the PDC keynote: Microsoft is going the HTML5 way. But this is not a review of the he said/she said MS is playing for the last week. It’s about the risks associated with selecting a technology, or making an architecture
Some people think that by blaming Microsoft, I’ve removed the responsibility of self development from the developers themselves. These are two separate things.Developers who want to expand their horizon, enhance their craftsmanship, will find ways to do that. And because there are so many sources, they will probably not get it just from Microsoft.But we
Running the panel at the Typemock Academy was a great experience for me. (Read: I’ve got loads to learn about running a panel). We wanted to make things interesting, and picked a topic that at its heart not so controversial. But when you dig in, it really exposes a problem: If unit testing has been
Guy Kawasaki, of former Apple fame and currently a VC person, who is very famous, raised a website called Truemors. This site get people to post and discuss rumors about everything. But that’s not important. The important stuff is how he did it. And how much it cost – 12K$. With all the difference of