Summary of Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams
Roy Osherove discusses principles and practices that make teams more effective, successful and happy. Team topics covered: automating everything possible, buying/using/discarding tools, getting quick feedback, communicating without using meetings, building by feature not layer, code & tests reviewing. Lead topics: bottleneck ninja, integrity, removing obstacles
It’s worth taking the time and watching this talk.He points out some really important issues in team work and gives some ideas how to improve them.Here are some links from the presentatioin:
http://www.autohotkey.com/
http://leansoftwareengineering.com/ksse/scrum-ban/
http://leanandkanban.wordpress.com/
Books:
http://www.amazon.com/Scrumban-Essays-Systems-Software-Development/dp/0578002140
http://www.amazon.com/Kanban-David-J-Anderson/dp/0984521402/ref=pd_sim_b_8

NoSQL
As the term NoSQL is popping around more and more I decided to dedicate a special post where I put all interesting posts and links on the subject. It’s good to have a better overview of the existing technologies.
Links:
The NOSQL-Environment (Not Only SQL)
NoSQL Architecture
NoSQL Databases – Part 1 – Landscape
NoSQL Ecosystem
YeSQL: An Overview of the Various Query Semantics in the Post Only-SQL World
NoSQL – the Shift to a Non-Relational World
NoSQL hub
Audio:
Episode 165: NoSQL and MongoDB with Dwight Merriman
Episode 162: Project Voldemort with Jay Kreps
Episode 157: Hadoop with Philip Zeyliger
Conferences:
ICOODB 2010 – 3rd International Conference on Objects and Databases / September 28-30, 2010
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