January 2007 - Posts

Agile Methods: Stand-up Meetings
Stand-up meetings are a very important part of Agile methodologies, Scrum in particular. This article by Martin Fowler focus on the most important aspects that should be considered in the organization of this kind of meetings. In particular, those aspects Read More...
Posted 30 January 07 06:02 by hgr | 3 Comments   
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Windows Vista Launched
I was expecting to attend the Windows Vista official launch at one of our partners: Megatrónica . Unfortunately I was with the flu and couldn’t go. But the Internet is this great thing and the full Bill Gates keynote is available online. Check it at the Read More...
Posted 30 January 07 01:48 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Agile Methods: Iterations during the Development Phase
The MSF process model divides the project lifecycle according to a set of incremental phases, mixing the traditional waterfall and spiral models: The Envisioning phase consists in the definition of the project vision and scope, available resources, priorities Read More...
Posted 29 January 07 10:31 by hgr | 2 Comments   
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Agile Methods in a “Product-centric” Development Team
Now that the development of V7 is finished, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of the experiences resulting from the introduction of some concepts of Agile Development in our processes. Our development process has been based, for some years Read More...
Posted 25 January 07 11:37 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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iPhone
I found this great video through Luís Anjos : http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/j47d52oo/event/ It’s the keynote presentation for the new Apple iPhone. What I find amazing in this presentation, more than the product itself, are the new user interface Read More...
Posted 21 January 07 12:24 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Sierra Nevada
I started this year with a brief vacations at Sierra Nevada in Spain. This was my first experience skiing. It was really great and a wonderful way to "fill the batteries" for the upcoming 2007 challenges. The cool thing was that after only 5 days trying, Read More...
Posted 20 January 07 11:58 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Business Objects
And the discussion about the true role of business objects continues: http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/RamblingThoughtsOnPragmaticDevelopment.aspx Every once in a while we all have this database vs. dto vs. business objects “philosophical break down”. Personally Read More...
Posted 03 January 07 06:26 by hgr | 3 Comments   
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English in 2007
Now that we are in the dawn of the new year, I’ve decided to start publishing my posts in English. Maybe with the exception of those clearly only interesting to the Portuguese speaking (like this one ). One could say: “so much for patriotism”. :) The Read More...
Posted 02 January 07 07:52 by hgr | 1 Comments   
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V7 + Vista
Estamos no último mês do desenvolvimento da V7. Decidi instalar a RC4 no meu Windows Vista. Os resultados são bastante satisfatórios. Na realidade até parece tudo muito mais simples do que estava à espera. Tirando um problema gráfico no Navegador, tudo Read More...
Posted 02 January 07 04:01 by hgr | 9 Comments   
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