RT @patrickmyles: Google's newly proposed SPDY protocol could be interesting 4 realtime finance webapps, if adopted - http://bit.ly/AAR95 #RT @jurgenappelo: Scaling Lean & Agile Development, by Craig Larman and @ ...Read More
Month: February 2010
An Estimate is not a Guarantee
The statement that an estimate is not a guarantee might sound obvious but it often feels anything but. Over the years I have frequently heard managers complain that something has taken longer than was anticipated and have been told to improve ...Read More
When were you when Tendulkar scored 200?
No, that title isn't a typo. Today, the little master, Sachin Tendulkar scored 200 runs in an ODI, the first time that has happened. That's cricket in case you were wondering. Cricket is played all round the world ...Read More
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21
CaplinTech blog update from @adamshone: Designing a kanban board - not as simple as you might think: http://bit.ly/ayo5Az #agile #yam #RT @patrickmyles: Very interesting blog from the BBC about ...Read More
Testing APIs for Backwards Compatibility
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Agile Framework Development and the various techniques that we have used here at Caplin to build our APIs in a way that is sympathetic to agile methodologies. One of the key problems ...Read More
Designing a kanban board – not as simple as you might think
Last month Emin Tatosian posted an article about agile team-board layouts in which he showcases one of our more successful board designs. It's fair to say that we don't always get it right ...Read More
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14
CaplinTech blog latest: Tammy Sharpe: How we survived WAgile: http://bit.ly/ctidHe #CaplinTech blog update: @ian_alderson on #JavaScript Variable Naming Convention http://bit.ly/9SnUFi #yam #Interesting cross-browser technique for ...Read More
Limiting real time data
When you are loading a web site, or even most fairly advanced RIAs, you are requesting data and getting a response - an HTML page, SWF file, some JSON or XML data etc. How quickly that data is returned to you ...Read More
JavaScript Variable Naming Convention
When I joined Caplin 10 years ago I came from a company that used Hungarian notation to name its C++ and Visual Basic variables. For me, it seemed a natural progression to continue to use these naming conventions and adapt ...Read More
How we survived WAgile
There is much to be gained from the literature and assimilation into development of well defined religions of software development; Kanban, Scrum, the much maligned Waterfall etc. I have often experienced a certain frustration when coming up with ...Read More