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ThoughtWorks embraces the individuality of the people in the organization and hence the opinions expressed in the blogs may contradict each other and also may not represent the opinions of ThoughtWorks.
Blog post by Elena Yatzeck
19 June 2013
Just released a new Agile In a Nutshell Planning video. You can see it and the other Agile In a Nutshell videos (like user stories and estimation) here.
Here are some slides from the deck.
Blog post by Jonathan Rasmusson
19 June 2013
Blog post by Damana Madden
19 June 2013
An important part of deploying a database-backed application is keeping the database schema up-to-date. For Rails applications, you typically do that by running:
$ rake db:migrate
For Rails applications running on Heroku, you typically run the migrations immediately after deploying a new version of your app, e.g.
$ git push heroku master $ heroku run rake db:migrate
Since Cloud Foundry takes after Heroku in so many ways, I expected to use a similar workflow when deploying my Rails application on Cloud Foundry. I was suprised to discover that CF does not…
Blog post by Mike Williams
19 June 2013
Blog post by Adewale Oshineye
19 June 2013
Agile Software Community of India is happy to announce 4 new exciting conferences.
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* Agile Coach Camp is an unconference for Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, Agile Trainers, Leaders, Change Agents and Mentors. (Last coach camp in June was completely sold out 2 weeks in advance. Since we had a waiting list of 43 coaches,…
Blog post by Naresh Jain
19 June 2013
When people first use neo4j they frequently start out by embedding it in a Java application but eventually they want to explore the graph in a more visual way.
One simple way to do this is to start neo4j in server mode and use the web console.
Our initial code might read like this:
public class GraphMeUp { public static void main(String[] args) { GraphDatabaseService graphDb = new EmbeddedGraphDatabase("/path/to/data/graph.db"); } }
or:
public class GraphMeUp { public static…
Blog post by Mark Needham
19 June 2013
Everyone loves a project that comes in ahead of schedule and under budget. But if you consistently too under budget, people will accuse you of sandbagging your estimates and accuse you of being a little too cautious.
This caught me once. We sized a project using the estimates as a range technique, and convinced management to use the upper numbers.
We then estimated our team velocity and again, used a conservative number around how fast we thought we could go.
Turns out we the project was simpler than we thought, and we ended up going…
Blog post by Jonathan Rasmusson
18 June 2013
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Take our unique challenge to do as many additions and subtractions on the Abacus and dodge the asteroids that come in your way. Enter the final answer before the door shuts down.
Excited? Lets see, how many levels you can clear?
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New to Abacus? May be you should try our other app Abacus Rush https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/abacus-rush/id624530261
Blog post by Naresh Jain
18 June 2013
Master your counting skills using an Abacus, the earliest and fastest calculator in the world using our innovative iPad Game.
Take our unique challenge to represent as many numbers on the Abacus and fill your progress meter in less than 60 seconds.
While the time is ticking every second, you have to move the correct beads on the Abacus, without letting your needle fall into the red zone.
Ready for the challenge? How many numbers you can represent accurately?
Download the app from https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/abacus-rush/id624530261
Already know counting? Master addition and subtraction using Abacus Ignite https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/abacus-ignite/id645156001…
Blog post by Naresh Jain
18 June 2013
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