Getting Agile

After some restructuring and multiple submissions, the Jini starter kit jars and the starter kit zip archive itself are now located at the main Maven repository. You may find these artifacts in the net.jini and com.sun.jini groupId directories. I did notice that the Jini starter kit and the start example scripts from Brian [...]

Tomorrow night we are having our monthly IASA (International Association of Software Architects) Puget Sound chapter meeting in the Jefferson Room, building 43 room 1560, located on the Microsoft Campus. We are going to be trying out a new way to conduct the meeting, “open spaces”.
We are deviating somewhat from one of the principles [...]

I have progressed a bit on the Maven Jini plug-in over the past few weeks in my spare time. It has been quite an experience working with Jelly, JEXL, and Ant commands to create a somewhat cohesive environment. I have learned many of the limitations with Maven in terms of property and variable [...]

All of you who are already on the Jini users mailing list probably have already heard about this great talk put on by Jim Waldo, a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems. I believe the ideas delivered during this talk are some of the most important for the true revolution in technology and business. [...]

I have been working on some personal projects using DWR. When it comes to web frameworks which are easy to work with, I haven't seen any that top this one. Besides the great "Getting Started" tutorial, there are also some examples around the web linked to here.
I believe that the biggest features of [...]

I have been rambling to colleagues about how much I despise relational databases for many reasons. These include the hierarchical formation of data, the finite set of relationships between tables, their inability to distribute themselves, and the maintenance overhead that they create for application and integration development projects.
One approach that I thought was a [...]

Mary Poppendieck (of Poppendieck,LLC) just gave a talk on “Lean Softwae Development” in Redmond, WA. I must say that I was impressed with her engaging speaking style and the amount of detail and examples she was able to cram into a 90 minute talk. There were three specific comments which interested me the [...]