It looks like several people are actively trying to pin down the much-bandied term “cloud computing”, and in particular, to define what it is not.
A thoughtful article about the failings of on-line advertising and some consideration of how to address these problems.
Why Traditional Advertising Formats Fail On The Web
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A nice little post about the irritating way that bug priorities seem to creep upward as a project progresses. I’m sure we have all seen this in action.
Software, abstract strategy games & other stories: Raising the bar on bug priorities
It’s generally considered as tough to recruit the best, most committed and most passionate people. One approach is to offer good pay in an attempt to tempt potential new hires. Another, radical, approach is instead to offer to pay people to quit. If this sounds unlikely, you need to read this article:
Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too – Harvard Business Online’s Bill Taylor
We have been running daily stand-up meetings for well over a year now, with generally good results. Occasionally we hit some speed-bumps (at the moment, one problem seems to be that the group of participants is a bit too large, but splitting the group does not seem useful either). Such meetings are obviously personal and vary between teams and situations, but it was good to read an article (and comments) about effective stand-up meetings.
many developers intuitively understand the benefits of working in small tightly-focussed teams. Apparently, one way of determining whether your team is an appropriate size is using Pizza as a measure. Seems an interesting idea, although I have yet to find any definition of what sort (and crucially, size) of pizza should be used.
fuzzylizard » Two-Pizza Teams
The same author later returned to the topic to point out some potential problems with this approach
One fairly familiar way of writing requirement stories is “as a … I want … so that …”. Elizabeth Keough reckons this is not quite right.
Almost (but not quite) as barking mad as Guitar Hero mobile. Sigh.
Rowin’s blog » Blog Archive » Second Life on a mobile phone – part 2
For years Frank Carver has been paying attention to the strange world of convergent technology. During that time he has discussed and researched broad subject areas, come to some surprising conclusions, produced and distributed digital media, scattered ideas and opinions like sparks from a firework, and above all consulted for businesses both large and small to help develop and deploy successful systems, services, and products in this highly complex arena.
