Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Gojko Adzic – Building smart teams: „Have people on the team that think differently, use different tools and approach the problems from a different angle. This will help the team spot blind spots easier and avoid the echo effect, increasing the team collective intelligence.“

Todd Hoff at High Scalability – A Bunch of Great Strategies for Using Memcached and MySQL Better Together: „What I’m struck with is the enormous amount of effort that goes into syncing rows and objects back and forth between the cache and the database. Shouldn’t it be easier?“

Kurt Cagle at O’Reilly News – Drupal as Open Architecture: „One thing that’s rubbed at me for a while is that Ruby on Rails is still based upon this paradigm that you have to write code in order to build a site, which means that Ruby will always be of use only to those people…

Gojko Adzic – 10 ways to screw up despite Scrum and XP: „Henrik Kniberg, author of Scrum and Xp from the Trenches, talked today at Agile 2008 about the most common ways for teams to fail despite applying agile practices and tools. His presentation was organised as a talk about common problems and symptoms of…