Agile Developmt- XP and Scrum

Agile Developmet is the defacto way of developing software for small business in my view. Heavy duty modeling and CMMI compliance is good but may not be practical for small development teams.

There are couple of things to consider if you are working on an agile development, if some of your team are out-sourced to India and Romania. How do you keep the communication open and yet get development done a reasonable pace.
The answer to this is to adopt SCRUM methodology and use a tool such as JIRI and Ontract Software Development tools.

More on this later.

Ecommerce and ASP.NET 2.0

I just picked up a a couple of books from apress and looking through the MSDN webcasts of the ASP.NET related stuff.

Couple of them that I like are:
http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/Default.aspx

http://www.cristiandarie.ro/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/beginner/learningpath/

I still have issues related ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0 working on the same machine. Actually I am looking at some of the solutions in www.codeproject.com


Incidentally summer is here and today it is 19 degree centigrade.

Macromedia Studio 8 Suite of tools

We just installed amcromedia 8 suite of tools.
and right after that, I upgraded the IE6 to I& and macromedia contribute stopped working.
Luckily , adobe had a work around.

Also I am not too happy to see that Freehand has been droped from MX to version 8.
more on this later.

Design Patterns

I am please to find that design patterns are geting accepted in the embeded design industry like EDA giant Mentor Graphics. Also I am very please to note that design patterns are part of the original release of the Enterprise Architect of SparxSystems.

However in the .net community Hummel and others are trying to promote this in MSDN architecture webcat. I am not sure about the local .net activity in this area.

Archived Webcast for Visual Studio

I have always found the materials for Jim Hummel useful when it comes to VS.net programming.
Here is the Link
http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/modernsoftdev.mspx

I will request you to post other sources as well for VS.Net resources.

SDL-92 and UML-2.0 Comparison

Many of us have worked on SDL-92 in telecommunication industry. Here we want to understand how much UML-2.o has been influenced by SDL-92.
It is fairly complex topic and I hope to do justice on that.

Kerio Mail Server

We sell and service Kerio Mail Server- www.kerio.com

Please post yout comments and concern here.
I will address issues atleast once a day.

Do not post confidential material here; instead send them as email.

Management Information Systems

we are searching for Management Information Systems Books Materials. All pointers will be appreciated.

At presnet we have Identified Loudon Loudon- however it is introductory.
here is the book.http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131538411/sr=8-1/qid=1142380150/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3495716-6070511?%5Fencoding=UTF8

I am not very Impressed with this book. I would like a better reference.

Sam Gentle's Blog

I like this Sam Gentle blog for Information that may not be avilable else where.
enjoy.

Here is the link
http://samgentile.com/blog/
http://codebetter.com/blogs/sam.gentile/default.aspx

Composite Smart Client Architecture

We are working with composite smart client application development.
The following blog is a good place to start
http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/articles/371327.aspx

Agile Modeling and Business Modeling

I just Picked up the following Books for the Project:
1.0 Agile Modeling - Scott Ambler
2.0 Agile database Tehniques - Scott Ambler.
3.0 Business Modeling with UML- Hans-Errikson et al.


I will discuss at leagth the Merits and summary of Each methods.

Firebird Database

We are working on a project involving .NET as the front end, vb.net in particular and Firebird as the back end. We will post the progress and the difficulties as we go along.
Any suugestions and alternatives will be hightly appreciated.


At present the Firebird will be running on Redhat 8.0 Linux Server.
The Enterprise Architect with Iconix Model will be the Software Engineering Process for the Project.

UML Framework Repository

I am looking at ways to make UML-2.0 Based repository to work to be effective in Our work.

I also in the process of gathering success stories of the groups that have used pattern frameworks.

Extreme programmng Explained

I am just going throug the book Extreme Progrmmaing Explained. Kent Beck Second edition,
I will post the Summary below.

I am also going throught the book called Extreme Programming Iconix Process.


The Iconix Process in my opinion is most prctical and readily appplicable to our Process at Keen Compuyet solutions. The best part is Iconix Process can be readily applied with Inexpensive Enterprise architect Software Development Toolset.

Test Driven Development

I am reading the IBM Articles that was referred in Marc Clifton's Article in Code Project.

All the Reference for test driven development refers to Java and Elcipse sort of Plaforms. The concept is great and I believe in it. However I would appreciate the same kind of Test driven framework for Visual studio.net.

Can you all suggest some directions and guideline for that.

I will summarize findings. So far I have searched the MSDN archive and reading the articles as they come up.

Extreme Programming

I recently Came across extreme Programming Article in www.codeproject.com

In Particular I like Marc Cliftons short Introduction. Please read his article before you venture into other Books and Material. IIn my opinion Marc Captures the essence of Extreme Programming avery nicely.

Interlake Wimax- Project

Interlake Development Corporation is considering Wimax Project. Please post your thoughts.
Wimax is a technology that provides broadband and land phone and cell phone service using licenced and
unlicenced microwave technology.

for details please lookinto www.wimaxforum.org.


More on this later.

Agile Develpment

Agile Development based on Extreme Programming has proven its value in industrial situation.

Iam just reading the Kent Back book on Extreme Programming.
Scot Ampler's Blog site an excellent source on this subject.

I will post details as we explore this area.

Your Input is highly aprciated.

Enterprise Architect 5.0 Consulting

Keen Computer has signed up with Sparxsystes.au as a consultant and reseller for enterprise architect. We welcome all questions and inquaries for full cycle software Development.

TerraETL

Dean of Terra ETL has Joined Keen computer Solutions. Dean Brings wealth of Knowledge from his GIS and Development Experence. We lookforward to working witth DEAN.