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Updating reading list for LinkedIn
published June 21, 2010
My LinkedIn account now has updated Amazon reading list. Apparently I have read 63 work-related books that I wanted to let people know about (I have browsed more, but I guess first 10-40 pages does not qualify for “read”). It is nice to notice that just by reading books slowly, you will accumulate pretty large amount in couple years. Sad thing is that I do not think IT professionals are generally reading enough. The best way is to learn from the best by hiring them, but since “the best” are not always available, next best thing is to read books written by the best. My method is to trust blindly to amazon customer reviews and concentrate on reading books that have received at least 4 stars. Check out my reading list and suggest me something!
What a day
published March 16, 2010
Today was an excellent day. Our team members where busy on other projects, in training and some lucky ones where on vacation. This special occasion gave me an opportunity for serious hacking in our war room. It must have been over two years ago since I had a day like this. In “proper” agile projects, Scrum master will inevitably be interrupted multiple times per day, if not, there is something lurking beneath the surface. So, a quiet day like this is a rare treat for me.
I spent my day test driving Thoughtworks Twist, configuring Bamboo and getting it to build Webtests written in Groovy. I also configured a bamboo widget to show build status on Jira dashboard and enhanced our development environment by configuring jRebel to Liferay. This stuff is better to be in order when doing serious development. Personally, I think that all this stuff should be bought from a cloud vendor and it is kind of 1999 to install team tools by yourself. Reality, however, is that many organizations are still hosting services by them selves. I would like to see a one-click development environment cloud services, that could generate a whole development environment for you with just one mouse click. Atlassian’s Jira Studio is moving into this direction but idea I am after is more like Jira Studio combined with Google app engine. Oh well, maybe some day.
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