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Bookmarks for April 28th through May 8th

by Ron Bieber on Friday, May 8, 2009

  • Git for beginners: The definitive practical guide – Stack Overflow – The beginnings of a "Practical Guide to Git" being authored on stackoverflow.com.
  • Highest Voted "git" Questions – Stack Overflow – Quesions tagged with Git on StackOverflow.com
  • InfoQ: How Many Chickens Are Too Many? – "The daily scrum is an important meeting within the Agile team. During this 15 minute session, the team members share their commitments along with the impediments blocking them from moving forward. According to Scrum, only the committed team members (pigs) are allowed to speak during these meetings. Other interested people (chickens) can join in, but they should just listen. Is there a limit on the maximum number of chickens, who could attend the daily scrums? An interesting discussion on the Scrum Development group tries to answer this question."
  • Producing Open Source Software – Free book describing the Open Source development methodology and how to run an open source project. One of my favorite books on development process.
  • Agile Alliance: Agile Alliance Home – Home page of the Agile Alliance.
  • saplink – Google Code – "SAPlink is an open source project that aims to make it easier to share ABAP developments between programmers. It provides the ability to easily distribute and package custom objects."
  • Cocoa Samurai: Distributed Version Control & Git [Part 1] – "When you start using Distributed Version Control you tend to start making a lot of branches and do many more merges, it becomes you do commits and merges when you want to vs doing them in some regularity because you fear your version control system might make things harder if you don't commit or merge now."
  • Understanding Git Conceptually – "This tutorial [takes] a conceptual approach to Git. My goal will be, first and foremost, to explain the Git universe and its objectives, and secondarily to illustrate how to use Git commands to manipulate that universe."
  • Compromising Quality for Schedule | Musings of a Software Development Manager – "I found myself silently cheering for Uncle Bob as he described a recent presentation where the speaker had just about given up on ever getting better code quality, because businesses didn’t value it."
  • Tuning IE7 for Better Performance
  • Facebook Developers | Facebook Open Platform – "Facebook Open Platform is a snapshot of the infrastructure that runs Facebook Platform. It includes the API infrastructure, the FBML parser, the FQL parser, and FBJS, as well as implementations of many common methods and tags."

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Bookmarks for November 10th through November 11th

November 11, 2008

Cutting I.T. Costs – And We Do That How? - Phurnace Software – With already limited staff and expectations on IT going up – how do you continue to cut costs? Automate.
InfoQ: Presentation: Reaching Hyper-Productivity with Outsourced Development Teams – "In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, and Guido Schoonheim, [...]

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Bookmarks for November 3rd through November 4th

November 4, 2008

Prawn – prawn – "Prawn is a fast and nimble PDF generator written in pure Ruby. "
The Role of the Core Development Team in an Agile Project – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership – "This excerpt from the upcoming book, Becoming Agile, discusses a necessity in ensuring corporate buy-in for Agile development: creating a collaborative [...]

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The Physics of Startups – Shai Agassi

May 2, 2007

One podcast I listen to pretty religiously is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leadership podcast from Stanford University. Recently, Shai Agassi, formerly of SAP gave a talk called The Physics of Startups, which was very interesting.
There were a couple of things that stuck with me out of this talk:

Money for a startup [...]

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Agassi: MySQL will support SAP this year

April 11, 2006

In this article, Shai Agassi predicts that the open source database MySQL will be certified to run SAP by the end of the year.

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