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We, here at 2Paths, are avid Agile Software Development and SCRUM practitioners. SCRUM works very well in the ideal project: from five to nine developers and one on-site Product Owner. But how well does this work with large organizations, especially those that are overseas? We recently had the pleasure of working on a project with the OECD, [...]
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Many people within technology and development environments are fully aware of the limitations and frustrations with traditional project management techniques. Most frustrations boil down to a breakdown in communication, eg: what the customer wants is not necessarily what the programmer hears. Communication is key in solving complex problems and all too often barriers are [...]
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Over the past 4 months I have intermittently been looking into the use of the Mulgara RDF triple store. Mulgara is an open-source RDF triple store that boasts to be able to handle up to 7 Billion nodes and was developed some big players in the semantic web space (Zepheira, Topaz and Fedora Commons). My [...]
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We’re now using GRAILS in one of our Maven-ized projects, and have it building using the Maven GRAILS plugin. We needed to roll this integration out to Husdon, our CI server which is running on a Debian box. We ran into a couple of snags. We had downloaded and installed the debian package grails_1.0.4-1_all.deb [...]
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At 2Paths we’ve got some pretty good processes in place: we practice agile software development and scrum, have all our projects set up in Continuous Integration. We try to do test-driven development where at all possible. One area that has slipped through the cracks though is database change management. What company hasn’t run into the [...]
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