A friend of mine is working with scrum.org and was asking questions about product ownership. This got me thinking. So, I threw together this quick list of things that, I think, make a great Product Owner.
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January 14, 2011
August 16, 2010
Going Nowhere
In Notepad++, Control+G pops up:
Cracks me up.
February 02, 2010
SOA, May You REST in Pieces.
Save your valuable time and don't watch this attempt to pump blood into a cadaver: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Reincarnation-SOA-Anne-Thomas-Manes. This presentation was so staggeringly ineffective and useless that I felt moved to write yet another SOA epitaph.
August 11, 2009
March 06, 2009
March 04, 2009
Google Mail Down
Lately, no matter where you look, the unthinkable is being thought of.
Google Mail has been down for last 40 minutes. Sitting here at downtown Reston's Panera, I have connectivity to any other site to which whim takes me. Just not Google Mail.
Sites like this don't have scheduled outages. At least this used to be the case.
Generally, I recommend Google. This most recent email outage is starting to put dents in my trust. After their Feb 09 outage, you'd think they would've pulled out all the stops to make sure mail service wouldn't die only a few days later.
August 23, 2008
RIAs - The New Web UI
SproutCore is slick; has a RoR + Apple pedigree & leverages Javascript very nicely. MobileMe integrates it. Apple contributes heavily to the project. Silverlight, AIR, and Google Gears compete. Silverlight and GG require browser plug-ins. Only GGs is open-source. Here's a good overview: http://rapidappsgroup.com/content/desktop-web-applications-using-sproutcore/
July 31, 2008
Groovy 1.5: No Private for You!
Considering Groovy for your next big project? We did. All things considered, it figured to be a safe choice given its Java pedigree. From the limited exposure I'd had to Groovy up until that point, it looked and felt remarkably familiar to Ruby (a good thing). I had even heard you could cut & paste any amount of Java into a .groovy file and it would just work. Depending on what 'work' actually means, this is mostly true.
One of the small untruths about Groovy behaving 'just like Java' is worth serious consideration - especially if you want your .groovy code to become API-ready.
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