Posted by Aman Arora just before lunchtime: September 30th, 2009
Nowadays paired programming concept is getting more and more common in the IT industry because of its benefits like design quality, overcoming difficult problems and better time management etc. Similarly a new concept of Paired Testing is getting famous now among the testers who are working in an agile environment. This concept of testing is similar to paired programming approach. In this approach the person doing the testing is called the driver while the other suggests ideas or tests, pays attention and takes notes, listens, asks questions, grabs reference material, observes or reviews etc.
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Posted by ShriKant Vashishtha in the early morning: September 30th, 2009
Recently for our project we started using Kettle for ETL purposes. Pentaho Kettle provides UI based tool. Initially it takes quite some time to get used to Kettle UI as it becomes difficult to visualize how to orchestrate available Kettle Steps to solve a business problem. As you know how to use it, it’s all about drag and drop a step and configuring it with available UI. With our experience we observed that it’s pretty easy to design 90% stuff easily but rest 10% involves a lot of research and at the end involved some hacks which we never liked.
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Posted by Kris Geusebroek in the early morning: September 28th, 2009
Using Spring JMS in our application which needs to be running on WebSphere proved to be somewhat of a challenge. And since googling provided a lot of information but just a small ‘easy to miss’ piece of text to put the pieces together, i decided to write up this blog.
Posted by Erwin van der Koogh mid-afternoon: September 25th, 2009
Recently someone asked me how I came to be so good in debugging things. I was a bit startled by the question as I was not aware of it being something you could be good at. But some people are better at finding problems then others, so I guess it must be true. This is my attempt at trying to figure out what debugging is and how you can get better at it.
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Posted by Serge Beaumont in the wee hours: September 12th, 2009
In my previous posts about the definition of READY and Flow to Ready, Iterate to Done I have tried to shed some light on the Big Black Hole of Scrum: the Product Owner. This is number three in the series.
In my previous blog post I presented the stages that a backlog item flows through before it gets to Ready. But those were the ideas behind it: in this blog post I’ll show how I’ve implemented them in practice. I’ll show you two interesting examples.
Posted by Jan Vermeir around lunchtime: September 7th, 2009
In this post I will describe the proof of concept I’ve done for one of our customers in the Netherlands. The assignment was to implement Single Sign On using Weblogic Platform 10.2 infrastructure. I will explain the options available to pass security information around and describe the solution we’ve implemented.
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Posted by Wilfred Springer in the early evening: September 6th, 2009
At Xebia, we work quite a lot with teams distributed across the globe. In the true spirit of extreme programming, that means your pair programming buddy might very well be in a completely other timezone. In my team, Mikogo is quite a popular solution in situations like these. However, it is not always the most efficient solution. Especially if you and your team mate are working together remotely on a system neither yours nor your buddy’s. Which is exactly what we are doing if we are working on our EC2 based deployments. (That basically means someone from our Dutch team working with someone in our Indian team on a system in the US.)
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Posted by Jeroen van Erp terribly early in the morning: September 4th, 2009
Aliens sending messages, Water flowing over a map and finding the hidden Welcome message in a String… Yes, Google Code Jam has returned for the 2009 edition! I participated in the Qualification Round and managed to solve all but 1 input set….
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Posted by Maarten Winkels in the late evening: September 2nd, 2009