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Submission + - Thoughts on governance in small dev teams

Submitted by Anonymous Developer
Anonymous Developer writes: We have a small, and young dev team. Currently, we have operated from a whiteboard and text files and plan for the coming 1 — 2 weeks (does this methodology even have a name?). Now we thought it is probably a good time to introduce governance and formality to the dev process before we expand further, or one of us is hit by a bus, but at the same time we don't want to introduce too much overhead or adversely affect the current dynamic of our team. We are also wanting to introduce some form of governance to our dev process and to preempt something (detrimental to productivity and morale) being forced upon us.

We would be interested to hear experiences of others who have been in through similar experiences. What works, what doesn't, etc.
Novell

Submission + - More Customer Momentum Around Microsoft - Novell

Submitted by El Lobo
El Lobo writes: Deutsche Bank AG, Credit Suisse and AIG Technologies today became some of the first customers to tap the benefits of the recently announced collaboration between Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. on interoperability between Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and Linux.

Deutsche Bank, already a significant user of Novell and Microsoft products, was pleased that the collaboration would improve interoperability among various systems. "Microsoft and Novell*s agreement gives us the benefit of choice of platforms and tremendous flexibility that will help make our company more competitive and efficient." said Clemens Jochum, chief technology officer of Deutsche Bank AG.

http://www.bobsguide.com/guide/news/17037.html
Microsoft

Submission + - PTO Publishes MSFT's Application for RSS

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Law Nun
Law Nun writes: "As per the usual policy of publishing applications 18 months after their receipt, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published Microsoft's patent application for a "Content syndication platform," which sounds a whole lot like RSS:

From the abstract:

"A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like."

The application, No. 11/158,936, was filed June 21, 2005 by Amar S. Gandhi, et. al. No word on the buckets of prior art which likely exist.

The application can be found here: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P TO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2F srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060288329%22.PGN R.&OS=DN/20060288329&RS=DN/20060288329"
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Time's Person of the Year 2006 is... You

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Time Magazine's Person of the Year selects the person (man, woman, group or idea) that, "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year". Previous recipients have included Charles Lindbergh (1927), Adolf Hitler (1938), the Generation Twenty-Five and Under (1966), the Computer (1982) and the Endangered Earth (1988). The Person of the Year for 2006 is you. Time believes that you are the most influential person in 2006, by using the "Web 2.0" (i.e. Wikipedia, YouTube, MySpace) to control the media and change the world. So give yourself a round of applause and a teary acceptance speech.
Communications

Journal Journal: Cell Phone/PIM integration? 1

Journal by TopShelf

OK, /. - help my marriage make it through the holidays. The wife is ready for a new phone (Sprint network), and is looking for something that can integrate easily with a calendar & task list application. She's currently using Hotmail for her main email, and she's open to switching to Gmail instead, but when looking through the cell phones that are available, the choices are many and the detailed information on how they interact with PIM's is slim. So what do you folks
User Journal

Journal Journal: Goodbye, 38.... 4

Journal by TopShelf

Dropped another 2 pounds this week, and actually wore some 36-inch jeans to work today, which I haven't worn in at least 3 years. w00t!
Upgrades

Journal Journal: It's amazing what you'll find... 2

Journal by TopShelf

Over the last 6 weeks or so I've been using my blog as a forum to dig around within NHL statistical data for information that hasn't been studied or made available before. Basically, I've taken detailed game information and provided some structure to it, so links between various events can be identified, and hopefully, some meaningful conclusions can be drawn about the nature of the game. Unlike baseball, which is awash in statistical data that
User Journal

Journal Journal: It coulda been a Hat Trick... 1

Journal by TopShelf

Last night was our best game yet, a 6-3 drubbing of one of the weaker teams in our league. Maybe not too impressive, but we've had probably 50% of our roster turn over in the last month, and this is the first good, concerted effort we've put together. I scored twice, once on a breakaway (snuck in behind both D and caught a pass near center ice), and the other on a nice feed into the low slot from a winger in the corner. Since I'm 16 pounds lighter than the start of the season, I can defini
User Journal

Journal Journal: Musing over the dead 1

Journal by TopShelf

Many thanks to SolemnDragon for inspiring me to finish this JE and post it. I've been dabbling with it for over a year now (the events occured September 2002), but now seems a good time to post it.

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