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    SOA, Mashups, Mashed Knees and Surgery

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    Written by Brad Appleton   
    Thursday, 20 August 2009 01:23
    Today is my birthday - I had arthroscopic knee surgery last night and am feeling pretty good so far (happy birthday to me). I know I still have a lot of meds/painkillers in my system and that its going to feel more uncomfortable the next few days. I'm still hobbling around on crutches but I'm feeling much more confident that I can attend (and present at) Agile2009.

    I received some very good books on Mashups and SOA a few months back and I'm finally getting a chance to look at them in some more detail. They really are quite good! I think Mashups are the "latest frontier" for realizing the promise of SOA, and a natural evolution from Wiki-webs. Here are the books:
     

    BOOK: Running an Agile Project

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    Written by Brad Appleton   
    Wednesday, 12 August 2009 16:12
    First, on a personal note, I had the misfortune to tear cartilage in my right knee a couple days ago and will require surgery to repair/remove it. I'm hobbling around on crutches for the time being. I hope I can still attend (and present at) Agile2009.

    Anyway, my review of Mike Holcombe's book Running an Agile Software Development Project appears in this month's Agile Journal.

    Running an Agile Software Development Project is an interesting book. On the surface it looks like it would be very academic, because the author, Mike Holcombe,[...]
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    WANTED: Seeking Single Agile Knowledge Development Tool-set

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    Written by Brad Appleton   
    Thursday, 06 August 2009 16:21

    I'll be presenting at Agile2009 in Chicago on the Tools for Agility stage on Tuesday 25 August, 4:45pm-5:30pm.


    Here is my session description from http://agile2009.org/node/2762


    WANTED: Seeking Single Agile Knowledge Development Tool-set

    Aren’t code, backlog-items, tests, designs & documents all just different forms of system knowledge at different levels of detail? Why can’t the same tools help refactor, browse, search, and provide build/test automation for non-code forms of knowledge without requiring a separate tool/repository for each format? Thi[...]

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    Studies on Effectiveness of TDD?

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    Saturday, 01 August 2009 04:06
    This question came-up in a discussion earlier this week: Do we know of published studies on this subject? A quick Google-search turned up the following for me ...
     

    Resources on Retrospectives

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    Written by Brad Appleton   
    Saturday, 25 July 2009 16:55
    I found a really good resource-list from George Dinwiddie on Introspection and Retrospectives that includes the following list of resources (mostly patterns & techniques) about conducting retrospectives. It contains many (but not all) of the links below:
     
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