Designs by Devin

Since I'm leaving town, I thought I would share this little tidbit via Lifehacker.com. The Microsoft Outlook team shares how to pinmp your out-of-office reply.

Seth Godin has made me think again about strategic plans and how to build businesses.

Did you know that you can run Java Servlets with Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) without any third-party products? All you need is plain old IIS and pure Java. Granted, you do need to use Microsoft's Java SDK for reasons that are explained in the article, but rest assured that your code will be free of any proprietary extensions and remain completely portable to other servlet engines.

I found this while creative Googling. Apparantly there are a lot of people frustrated like me that I have to go into iPhone settings everytime I want to turn on/off Bluetooth. Here is a link to the Q&A and a link to "The Most Useful iPhone App I Can't Release".

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Excellent article on Gantthead.com about how to use tools for Sprint planning when your teams are distributed. I'm evaluating two tools now for Sprint planning so I'm wondering if this advice applies. Sprints are pretty easy to plan just using 3x5 or 4x6 index cards.

If your going to be a PM using the Scrum methodology, you might as well use a tool to keep everything going in the right direction. Agilo for Scrum is a simple, web-based and straightforward tool to support the Scrum process. Agilo is based on Trac a very successful and widespread Ticket Tracking System, and developed using the Python programming language. Agilo is distributed as Open Source Software according to the Apache Software License 2.0.

This is my Scrum Methodology. There are many agile methodologies like it but this one is mine. My methodology is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without my methodology, I am useless. I must rely on my methodology as it is true. I must manage leaner than my competition who is trying to kill me. I must out-perform him before he out-performs me. I will. (With apologies to Stanley Kubrick & Michael Herr)

I love Spring... and the software framework is pretty good, too. Having said that, I find it funny that the Spring Source site uses the CMS Drupal.