QUOTATION: Release Management
Proper version management, automated build and release management are just as important or even more important for success than program design Zero Investment SOA – Eric Jan Malotaux
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Quotation: System Integration Points
Integration points are the number-one killer of systems. Every single one of those feeds presents a stability risk. Every socket, process, pipe or remote procedure call can and will hang. Even database calls can hang, in ways obvious and subtle. Every feed into the system can hang it, crash it or generate other impulses at … Continue reading Quotation: System Integration Points
TIP: Time-box your tasks
Don’t ever start working on something without defining a deadline! Not defining a time to finish the task or at least to decide on the next step/action is definitely counter productive. Not setting a deadline, puts the task in the control seat! It controls the situation and you keep following it. At best the task … Continue reading TIP: Time-box your tasks
REVIEW: Delivering Happiness
The book structure is not clear and the flow is not really smooth. The book keeps going as an endless story, with a lot of deviations from the main stream. Also I felt that most of the reflections – especially the Poker and the parties – are artificial. Honestly, I did not enjoy reading the … Continue reading REVIEW: Delivering Happiness
GUIDE: Sphinx with Django
The purpose of this tutorial is to integrate Django-Sphinx inside your Django application to make use of the powerful Sphinx search engine. This guide assumes the following: Python already installed Linux Ubuntu operating system Django already installed Eclipse — with Pydev — is the IDE You already have Djnago application to integrate Djnago-Sphinx with The … Continue reading GUIDE: Sphinx with Django
QUOTATION: Effectiveness
Don’t water messaging to appeal to everyone — It will end up appealing to no one. From 4 Hours Workweek
QUOTATION: Perceptions
Manage perceptions after a major incident. It’s as important as managing the incident itself From Release it: Design and Deploy Production Ready Software
QUOTATION: Realization
If you’re confused about life, you’re not a lone. There are almost seven billion. of us. This isn’t a problem of course, once you realize that life in neither a problem to be solved nor a game to be won. From 4 Hours Workweek
ANNOUNCEMENT: Seapine Mixing Methodologies eBook
Seapine1 has quoted from my “FDD VS SCRUM” blog post in their “Mixing Methodologies” eBook. They quoted: At Bayt.com, we had opted to use FDD. While I believe that SCRUM, as all other agile methodologies is excellent in supporting human-oriented software development environment, I continue to believe that it lacks well defined control points (milestones) … Continue reading ANNOUNCEMENT: Seapine Mixing Methodologies eBook
QUOTATION: Realization
Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple-many are just emotionally difficult to act upon From 4 Hours Workweek
Ala' Yasin Abuhijleh 