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Agile Software Management Showdown

This is a continuation of a previous post on Choosing a Project Management Platform for Agile Development As a part of my evaluation of various Agile/Scrum Management systems, I will be installing three platforms on my Windows machine.  As noted in the previous post (see above), there are a few requirements: it should be locally [...]

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Choosing a Project Management Platform for Agile Development in an Enterprise Environment

Having recently pushed out a new release of our core software product (WYSIWYG R27 if anyone’s interested), the minor downtime between releases has given me an opportunity to reflect on my team’s software development process.  After some deliberation (and for reasons which I won’t go into here), we decided to move towards a more agile [...]

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Review: Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and JQuery

My first experience with “designing” web pages was in the early 90s.  I was still in elementary school and HTML was the “big” thing; those were simpler times filled with gifs and <marquee>. Fast forward to the late 2000s…to say that web development technologies have “changed” would be an understatement.   All of a sudden I [...]

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Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and jQuery by Jonathan Hayward

First, a bit of news. Because of my prior experiences with Django, I’ve been contacted by the wonderful guys at Packt Publishing.  They’ve been generous enough to offer me a first-hand preview of a new book, Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and jQuery by Jonathan Hayward I’ll be doing a review of the book very soon, [...]

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Back and Nerdy as Ever

Hi all! I’ve been pretty quiet for a while and that’s mostly because I’ve been terribly busy with work.  I’ve been assistant product manager, product manager, trade show manager, tech expert, the list goes on.  When you work for a small company, your title means nothing. If you asked me a year ago if I’d [...]

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