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Recently I’ve been working on our in-house open source project, Tequila. It is a RESTful web service framework, and was lacking some familiar rendering capabilities out of the box. (See http://tequilaframework.org/ for project details). The formats that we thought may be useful were XML, JSON, and RDF, and so I set out to provide these [...]
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Last month I attended a ScrumMaster course given by Ken Schwaber, one of the founders of Scrum. Ken is a reasonably unassuming man with a casual demeanour and the uncanny ability to help people shoot themselves in the foot by dragging them head first into self awareness of their own roadblocks and limitations in their [...]
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Part of the purpose of attending QCon was to get in synch with the tech community in regards to technology they have experimented with and have found use for. The following is a list of technology/frameworks/etc of interest that I took away from the conference: CouchDB – Document oriented database Memcached – Distributed Hashmap MemcacheDB – A database [...]
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I was fortunate enough to partially attend the Much Ado About Agile Conference held recently in Vancouver, and was immediately drawn to the session “Database Development in Agile World” led by Marc Munro. This was a very timely session as we have recently begun a project that involves refactoring a legacy database and developing a [...]
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I had the privilege of attending a "Certified ScrumMaster" course being taught by Ken Schwaber who is one of the co-founders of the Scrum process. I've been using the scrum process for a few years and felt fairly confident in my ability to "live" the principles of Scrum but all it took was one exercise to smack me back to reality.
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