This week I got to have someone from another team who has been taking part in our “retrospective facilitators” group facilitate my team’s retrospective. He had started out using the framework from the Agile Retrospectives book and with a little help from me, but this week I got to see how he had evolved the [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Dynamic Goodness: JRuby + Spring + Struts 2
September 9th, 2008
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Recently I’ve completed an ideas swimming in my head for awhile now… using ruby within the java world. And it couldn’t be easier thanks to Struts 2, Spring, and JRuby. All you need is to use Spring’s Scripted Beans, define an interface for your action so it translates well to java, and just reference the [...]
Retrospective Patterns
September 4th, 2008
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Tonight I have more stories and thoughts to share from the trenches of facilitating Agile Retrospectives. As we’ve continued a few more iterations of participating in better organized retrospectives, I’ve noticed that there are a few interesting patterns that have emerged that a lot of retrospectives seem to follow. I’ll kind of avoid the Wrap [...]
Hey PHP Haters…
September 4th, 2008
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Recently I’ve gotten back into PHP development with some personal projects and I came to a realization… php is not as bad as people consistently make it out to be. Whenever I mention php with other developers, the responses are mixed but fall regularly along the following lines: “I hate PHP… it’s awful!!!” “PHP Sucks.” [...]
