Is ISO 9001 obsolete?

I just finished ‘Here Comes Everybody’, a must-read for anybody trying to understand what is going on with all this social media stuff. One point Clay Shirky makes, is that  the various web2.0 tools make failing cheap.
If in the 80s you had an idea for a group to form, you had a lot of things [...]

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Are You a Software Developer or a Dabbler

When reading blogs you get the impression, that everybody works in high end environments, using the latest greatest distributed version control system. Writing tons of tests, before they even dream about writing actual code and of course the tests a executed by the continuous integration system after every commit, which happens about 30 times per [...]

Do we need an Agile Maturity Model?

In a post on developer works Scott Ambler proposes a “Agile Process Maturity Model” (APMM), if you are asking “WTF is that supposed to be?” Scott tries to answer that in his first sentence:
The goal of the Agile Process Maturity Model (APMM) is to provide a framework which provides context for the plethora of agile [...]

JAX 08: Sprachen, Concurrency, Security, Architektur

Wie schon erwähnt war ich vor ein paar Wochen auf der JAX 08, und ich bin immer noch mit den Nachwirkungen beschäftigt. Hier meine persönliche Zusammenfassung der wesentlichen Erkenntnisse.
Sprachen
Das aktuelle Thema überhaupt ist sicherlich Sprachen. Durch die Allgegenwart von zwei wesentlichen Laufzeitumgebungen (JVM von Java/Sun und der CLR von .NET/Microsoft) ist es extrem einfach neue [...]