Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD): The Key to Scaling Agile Software Development

link -> Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD): The Key to Scaling Agile Software Development

New buzzword I was not familiar with.

Examining the Agile Manifesto

link -> Examining the Agile Manifesto

I need to memorize these. The practices don't mean anything unless we are working towards these things.

What Killed Waterfall Could Kill Agile. - Uncle Bob's Blog

link -> What Killed Waterfall Could Kill Agile. - Uncle Bob's Blog

Uncle Bob is always exciting.

Savvy Duck: Javascript Classes: Design Patterns, MVC and Ext 2.0

link -> Savvy Duck: Javascript Classes: Design Patterns, MVC and Ext 2.0

I confess I just scanned this one, but I hope to go back and try to understand it when I am less tired.

MVC and EXTJS – #2 (Config) « Tyson Lloyd Cadenhead – UI / UX Developer

link -> MVC and EXTJS – #2 (Config) « Tyson Lloyd Cadenhead – UI / UX Developer

Tyson Lloyd Cadenhead is a user interface and user experience developer who blogs about usability and JavaScript.

He hasn't really showed anything cool yet, but I am subscribing and hopefully he will keep going

How to apply a MVC architecture to a ExtJS project ? - Stack Overflow

link -> How to apply a MVC architecture to a ExtJS project ? - Stack Overflow

javascriptmvc uses jquery. Was poking around to see if there was something similar for extjs. Customization meeting was scary. Ticking time bomb.

Pourquoi, pas comment

link -> Pourquoi, pas comment

A couple of weeks ago I was in Paris with Neal Ford to speak at USI 2010. Our talk looked at some aspects of why agile works. Rather than look at the techniques which is how agile does its thing, we looked more at some of the underlying forces - focusing on communication and feedback. The video is now available. (The introduction is in French but the talk is in English. Sadly my French is barely sufficient to order at a restaurant.)

Good video. I enjoyed the part about pair programming and two people make one brain.

Duck : Delete Update Create Killer

link -> Duck : Delete Update Create Killer

Duck is a kind of ORM oriented toward Delete Update Create.
Don’t ask Duck to load data in memory, it simply can’t.
You simply express how data should change based on current row content and values that you’ll pass.
It avoids the first roundtrip to the database, and make shorter code to express the change.

Wacky

James Shore: Interesting Agile UX Experience Report

link -> James Shore: Interesting Agile UX Experience Report

James Shore consults and writes about high performance software development for teams who are willing to be great.

Cool Stuff

SOLID Motivational Calendar - new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); - Los Techies : Blogs about software and anything tech!

link -> SOLID Motivational Calendar - new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); - Los Techies : Blogs about software and anything tech!

The LosTechies blog of Derick Bailey. Discussing all things progressive, in the .NET arena, with tendencies towards Ruby and other environments.

I ordered one of these for our pod