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[ 18 Jan 2009 | No Comment ]
Distributed Scrum: lessons learnt

A presentation about the lessons learnt while doing distributed Scrum. As we have done distributed Scrum in my previous company, this really interests me. Distributed Scrum has some pitfalls, depending on how you organize your projects and teams.


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Video »

[ 6 Jan 2009 | No Comment ]
The new Macbook!

I love this new Apple Macbook! Just ordered the Macbook Pro which has a larger wheel for more accurate scrolling and selecting.
Click for a video!


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Java »

[ 30 Dec 2008 | 3 Comments ]
76 Events: statistics about Hibernate 3.2.2

Frameworks are growing with every release. Classes are changed, removed and added. In this series I zoom in on some well known projects and analyze their class names with completely meaningless statistics. This is the analysis of Hibernate 3.2.2.


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Java »

[ 29 Dec 2008 | 4 Comments ]
37 Factories: statistics about Tomcat 6

Frameworks are growing with every release. Classes are changed, removed and added. In this series I zoom in on some well known projects and analyze their class names with completely meaningless statistics. This is the analysis of Tomcat 6.

To get these statistics, I wrote a script that analyzed all classes. They get chopped up on word boundaries, so for ContextAwareFactoryBean the words Context, Aware, Factory and Bean are counted. From the output I generated a Class Cloud.


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Python, Scrum, Scrum tools »

[ 25 Dec 2008 | 47 Comments ]
Scrum Burndown plugin 1.9.1 released!

A new version of the Scrum Burndown plugin for Trac is released, bringing compatibility for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Trac 0.11.2.1, and many bug fixes. Upgrading is recommended.

New features

The Scrum burndown plugin is currently compatible and tested with Trac 0.10.5, Trac 0.11.1, Trac 0.11.2.1 Python 2.4 and Python 2.5. Additional to the previous SQLite compatibility, support for both PostgreSQL 8.3 and MySQL 5 has been added.


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