Great teams are rare
I read this really interesting article on ‘Da Q‘ that talked about ’The Secret Sauce of Highly Productive Software Development‘ being learning. Basically, if you don’t make time to learn, agile (or non agile) teams will always be just-average teams and never reach the dizzy heights of being a high performing team.
This got me thinking. I’ve been fortunate enough [...]
And another one…
…from atomfilms :)
What an Online Ad?
I don’t normally blog about online ads, but always give credit where credit is due, and ‘Le Duel‘ definitely deserves credit…
BitKeeper, Git and Mercurial
I had heard about the Git, a distributed resource control software configuration management project created by Linus Torvalds. However, I had not dug deeper to find out that it was a result of a flamewar and is a sad fallout created by the whole BitKeeper affair. It makes for very interesting reading…
…also, I had not [...]
Availability & Consistency
I’ve started to listen to some of the InfoQ presentations recently and I found this one on availability and consistency, given by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels to be an absolute gem. A great talk!
Also, after a number of weeks off I started running again. I’ve decided to take it real easy this time. 3 miles, [...]
Atlassian and Cenqua
Okay, so Atlassian has bought Cenqua. This was a no brainer really. Between the two Australian companies, they have a majority of the paid-for applications that we (Cognifide) tend to need on the software projects we deliver. Now we can manage the account through a single company instead of two. Sweet!
Alfresco
I attended the Alfresco Seminar this Thursday in Victoria Plaza Hotel in London. I was expecting around 20 or so geeks in a corner talking about cool technology. This was not the case. The event was oversubscribed. I don’t know exact numbers but it felt like over 120 people where there. Not bad for a [...]
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