Notes on the book: “Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great”

I finished reading Esther Derby’s & Diana Larsen’s book “Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great” a couple of weeks ago. Although my experiences with retrospectives are very limited and have no experience of leading a retrospective, the topic was interesting and I decided to order the book, which is basically a handbook for leading retrospectives [...]

James Shore’s brilliant notes on making an organizational change

James Shore, a developer and an agile coach, has kept a change diary on his experiences from a consulting gig where he tried to change a development team to use agile and XP methods. Did he succeed in his quest or not, does not matter, the most important thing is the documentation of the bumpy [...]

Selected Martin Fowler presentations

Martin Fowler is some kind of an icon of modern enterprise software development. All those books he has written and also It seems like it is quite hard to find a conference these days, where this loud-mouth isn’t speaking. And it is true, that he has contributed to the business quite a lot: work [...]

Test Driving Swing Applications

I’ve done my fare share of developing Swing apps in my java years. Perhaps 40% of UI development in my 8 years of java experience is done in Swing. Now that’s a quite a big percentage these days, when most of my colleagues have never done any Swing and their UI development is mostly done [...]

DZone offers free RefCardz (cheatsheets)

The Dzone community portal offers fantastic cheatcheats for different technologies (They call them actually RefCardz). These short 1 to 5 page printouts are loaded with information on a specific technology, or a part of technology , such as Ajax, Spring configuration, EJB3 DI etc..
The best part is that they add a new RefCard every [...]