Technology Cafe

What don’t you like about Agile

Rajiv Narula — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:02:10 +0000

“What don’t you like about Agile ?” - I asked one of my team member during our 1 on 1 session. Flashback: It has been six months or so since have started using Agile\Scrum practices\methodologies. I wanted to see how far have we got acceptance for the new way of life at grass root level. But as I [...]

Protected: Westford Expressions :Table topics for Nov 9th

Rajiv Narula — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:19:53 +0000

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Certified ScrumMaster Training- Review

Rajiv Narula — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:14:26 +0000

Yesterday I completed my Certified Scrum Master training. It was conducted by Giora Morein from BigVisible. It was an excellent experience and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a two-day program. Day one was split into two parts. In the first part , we played some scrum games- which was quite cool actually. We formed 4 teams with [...]

Scrum for developers

Rajiv Narula — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:55:22 +0000

To me - scrum is a way of life- and if you are coming from a waterfall- its a very different way of life… To effectively adopt scrum- we all have to change our ways… this is in fact ,I think the hardest part - to change our work habits and to change our beliefs. These [...]

Book review: Scrum and XP from the Trenches

Rajiv Narula — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:28:39 +0000

Ta da da dum !!! Just finished reading my first book on Scrum. Boy do I feel better now!!! We started using Scrum @ work few months ago. Before then I was familiar with Agile Practices but had never used Scrum before . So I did what everyone else did- went along with the flow , read [...]

What do you after you find a bug ?

Rajiv Narula — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:15:29 +0000

‘What do you do after you find a bug ?- I asked a team-mate one day while we were having lunch. ‘Fix it’ came the quick reply, with out a pause. ‘No. No. I mean after you fix it’ ‘Go home’ and then he quickly added - ‘ after fixing other bugs’ , now begining to look perplexed. ‘I [...]

Disappointment(s) with Facebook API

Rajiv Narula — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:28:47 +0000

Quite intrigued with all the social platforms out there- I decided to take one for a ride. It wasn’t too difficult to settle on Facebook. For two reason- I use it myself and I think it is one of the most popular social platform there. My first disappointment was that there is no official java client library, though [...]

Quotable quotes

Rajiv Narula — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:03:16 +0000

Excellent collection of quotes on programming. Caveat: This thread can be very addictive… http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes Its almost impossible to select a favourite from this list- but if I had to name one- this would probably be the one It works on my machine - anonymous programmer..

The site says xdb

Rajiv Narula — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:45:14 +0000

Its not always your site says anything to you But mine did…It said ‘XDB’. It was my grails application.This is the login window Firefox showed be gleefully with the message The site says XDB IE played dumb(er) - It too presented a login screen - but had a simpler message XDB I was in the process of trying a few things [...]

From Vista to Ubuntu

Rajiv Narula — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:26:58 +0000

Today I bid farewell to Windows Vista. And hello Ubuntu !!! Well not exactly… I still have Vista as a dual- boot option.But I don’t see myself logging in to Vista any time soon. For some reason the CD I created after downloading it from Ubuntu downloads site - didn’t work.So crazy as it sounds- I requested [...]