You have put a lot of time and effort into implementing Agile Software Development methodology in your team or company; but are you using Agile to its fullest extent and making the best use of it? In the following presentation, I go over the things that teams often...
This is a review of Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g Programming Techniques and Solutions, Second Edition by Tom Kyte. Overall, I highly recommend this book to the target audience. The target audience is not a new programmer or...
I haven’t read a more poignant, thoughtful, and truthful E-mail to a CEO than this one. RIM has been on a downward spiral for years now and this Research in Motion employee really nails why it is happening to RIM. Although it addresses the problems at RIM, the...
Microsoft has released an SDK for the Kinect. If you were waiting to check out programming with the Kinect, now is the time. There is good documentation and better yet, a video quickstart. It was much easier than trudging through countless forums to figure things out....
One of my favorite Simpsons episodes has a scene where Mr. Burns brings Homer to his mansion (YouTube Video). One of his rooms has a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters. One of the monkeys writes a slightly incorrect line from Charles Dickens ‘It was the...
One of the members of Google’s Wave team left Google and explained why in a blog post. One of most curious statements he makes is “Google’s vaunted scalable software infrastructure is obsolete.” He doesn’t say why or give any proof as to...
