Links for 2007-02-27 [del.icio.us]

• Download details: VSTS TechEd Demo
  A Microsoft show on Team System and Visual Studio for Team System.
• start - Flyspray - The Bug Killer!
  Flyspray is an uncomplicated, web-based bug tracking system for assisting with software development.

Links for 2007-02-26 [del.icio.us]

• Free 18-week AJAX Training Online Course by Sang Shin
  Sang Shin, Evangéliste Sun, publie en ligne une formation sur Ajax.
• Semantic Void » Blog Archive » Post Del.icio.us Links To Blogger Now
• Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center
• The State of Swing
  A Conversation with Chet Haase by Frank Sommers February 26, 2006.

Links for 2007-02-25 [del.icio.us]

• Methodology Map
  Here's a simple pictorial overview of software development methodologies. Its main purpose is to show how Crystal Clear compares to several better-known processes.
• Gurus on Contracts
  Can you use agile development under fixed-price contracts? Martin Fowler says you can't; Alistair Cockburn says you can. Who's right?
• MF Bliki: FixedPrice
  Many people belive that you can't do a fixed price contract in an agile project. However this doesn't mean you can't come up with a fixed price agile contract, what it really means is that you can't come up with a fixed scope contract.
• Fixed Price Contracts
  Can you use agile processes with traditional fixed price contracts, contracts where both scope and price are specified up front? Yes, you can use agile processes on fixed price projects.
• Agile Contracts Workshop
  Organizers: Mary Poppendieck & Christine Moore.
• Contracts for Agile Projects
  Do agile processes need flexible contracts? What about fixed price contracts?
• Agile contracts - AC
  Alistair Cockburn is collecting ideas people have for contracts on agile projects.
• Dr. Dobb's | Something's Gotta Give | February 7, 2003
  If you rigidly define the project's schedule, budget and the scope to be delivered, you've left no room for your team to maneuver, and are headed for failure.
• scrumalliance / Firms Using Scrum
  Below is a list of firms that someone (often one person in that firm) says is "using Scrum". It is certain that this list does not contain every firm that has a team(s) that uses "Scrum" (or at least what that team would call Scrum).
• Earned-value and burn charts - AC
  Extracted from Chapter 3 of "Crystal Clear," Alistair Cockburn, Addison-Wesley, 2004

Links for 2007-02-22 [del.icio.us]

• OpenQA: Selenium
  Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in a browser, just as real users do.
• Wikipatterns - Wiki Patterns
  Its aim is to provide a set of... patterns dealing with the adoption of wikis inside enterprises.

Links for 2007-02-21 [del.icio.us]

• Rod Waldhoff's Weblog: Friday, August 15, 2003
  Commons Logging was my fault.
• XRadar - XRadar
  The XRadar is an open extensible code report tool that gives measurements on standard software metrics such as package metrics and dependencies, code size and complexity, code duplications, coding violations and code-style violations.
• The Process of Database Refactoring
  Techniques for Successful Evolutionary/Agile Database Development.
• Refactoring Databases
  Evolutionary Database Development.
• Agile Data Home Page
  Techniques for Successful Evolutionary/Agile Database Development.

Links for 2007-02-20 [del.icio.us]

• Eclipse Corner Articles
  This article describes how to use Maven 2 with Eclipse in general. In particular we will focus on how to develop, package and test Eclipse plugins using Eclipse (Callisto) and Maven 2 (2.0.4) efficiently.
• Xebia : Conseil et Expertise J2EE
  Xebia est un groupe d’experts, exclusivement dédié aux technologies J2EE.
• Vincent Partington's homepage

Links for 2007-02-19 [del.icio.us]

• InfoQ: Java EE Best Practices Updated
  IBM has updated a 2004 article on Java EE best practices, compiling a list of 19 practices. They range from always use MVC to prefer JSPs as your first choice of presentation technology.
• Mountain Goat Software - Scrum Development Process - Agile Development Training and Consulting
  Scrum is an agile process for developing software. With Scrum, projects progress via a series of month-long iterations called sprints.
• A Practical Guide to Seven Agile Methodologies, Part 1
  In this two-part article, you'll learn all the ins and outs of the seven most popular methodologies so you can pick the one that's best for you. In part 1, we cover XP, Scrum, Lean, and FDD.
• A Practical Guide to Seven Agile Methodologies, Part 2
  In this two-part article, you'll learn all the ins and outs of the seven most popular methodologies so you can pick the one that's best for you. In part 2, we cover AUP, Crystal, and DSDM.

Links for 2007-02-18 [del.icio.us]

• AOP@Work: Unit test your aspects
  Nicholas Lesiecki introduces you to the benefits of testing aspect-oriented code and presents a catalog of patterns for testing crosscutting behavior in AspectJ.

Links for 2007-02-16 [del.icio.us]

• XP DAY
  An international conference for project managers, developers, and testers.
• eXtreme Programming France :: L'association - XP Day France 2007
  Les Journées d'XP et de l'agilité.
• Wizbang Standalone Trackback Pinger
  This form can be used to send a trackback pings to any blog that accepts Trackbacks. You do not need to have a Trackback system on your blog to send pings.
• WriteMaps: Create, edit, and share sitemaps online.
  WriteMaps is a free web-based tool that allows you to create, edit, and share sitemaps online.
• Joel on Software - Guide de survie à l'usage des recruteurs
  Joël Spolsky nous livre quelques techniques qu'il applique chez Fog Creek afin de détecter et d'embaucher les superstars. Excellent post, comme d'habitude chez Joël.

Links for 2007-02-15 [del.icio.us]

• Succeeding with "Agile Fixed Price" projects Part 1: The Price is right!
  This paper describes how you qualify, sell and manage projects with fixed-price contracts without losing your customer or going broke.
• Succeeding with "Agile Fixed Price" projects Part 2:"Do you want agility with that?"
  This paper describes how you can apply "agile" or "Lean Development" techniques to further improve your chances of successfully managing fixed-price projects.
• Vianney Lecroart - AceMTP Playground » Comment recruter un mauvais ingénieur informatique
  Voici quelques règles permettant à coup sûr de recruter un mauvais ingénieur.
• Darrell Norton's Blog [MVP] : Fixed-Price contracts in an agile organization
  Is there an Agile way of figuring out how long a project will take to deliver the final product a client wants? With this, how much money it'll cost a client?
• Forfait agile - Scrum - Méthodes agiles
  Une approche agile pour des prestations au forfait.
• TaskFreak! web based task manager / todo list written in PHP
  TaskFreak! is a simple but efficient web based task manager written in PHP.

Links for 2007-02-13 [del.icio.us]

• ENST - Projet Lean Entreprise - GlossaireLean
  Glossaire du Lean.
• Michel Bénard - It Architecture :: "Powerpoint"
  Guy Kawasaki est une des personnes les plus influentes dans le monde des start-up américaines. Il donne quelques conseils pour bien réussir sa présentation.
• Lean - Wikipédia
  Une page consacrée à l'école de gestion "lean" sur Wikipédia.

Links for 2007-02-12 [del.icio.us]

• Maven - Json-lib::Welcome
  JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps, collections, java arrays and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans. It is based on the work by Douglas Crockford in http://www.json.org/java.
• ResumeBay
  Resumebay.net is the first and only open standards Resume and/or Jobs Website.
• E-Mail Icon Generator
  For GMail, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo!, AOL and many more!
• Ten Steps to Professional Blogging
  10 steps that'll lead you to blogging success.
• Générateur de tags - Technorati - Del.icio.us - IceRocket - NetWizz Jungle Blog
  Saisissez vos mots-clés séparés par un espace. Choisissez technorati et/ou del.icio.us et/ou IceRocket. Copier-coller du résultat dans votre billet en mode source HTML.
• Logo Maker-Logo54.com
  You can make a free font image(sample).
• SuperGenPass at labs.zarate.org
  SuperGenPass is a customizable bookmarklet that generates unique, complex passwords for every website you visit using one "master" password.

Links for 2007-02-11 [del.icio.us]

• Pipes: Rewire the web
  Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.
• Viral Video Chart - Today's Top 20 Viral Videos
  Today's Top 20 Viral Videos.