CodeFutures News & Industry Commentary Blog
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Agile Development Revisionist
Any customers that have requested new features or bug fixes will know that CodeFutures uses agile development. The primary benefits of agile for customers are fast turnarounds on requests. CodeFutures' positive experiences are not uncommon - there's a massive amount of material written about the benefits of agile development.
That makes Brian Marick
somewhat revisionist keynote address at the Agile Development Practices conference interesting for anyone deeply committed to agile practices.
Labels: Agile Development, Customer Support, Database Products, Product Development
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Is Silverlight 2 Enterprise-Ready?
Microsoft has released version two of its Flex-killer called Silverlight. Microsoft is pushing the technology for use in businesses - essentially for developing
enterprise mashups and the types of interactive sites currently built using Flex.
It would be nice to compare Silverlight with Flex, but you need to agree to giving Microsoft "standard computer information" that seems pretty invasive:
Internet-enabled features in software will send information about your computer ("standard computer information") to the Web sites you visit and Web services you use. This information is generally not personally identifiable. Standard computer information typically includes information such as your IP address, operating system version, browser version, your hardware ID which indicates the device manufacturer, device name, and version, application version and your regional and language settings. In this case, the application version would be the version of Silverlight installed on your device. Silverlight contains an update notification feature that sends standard computer information to Microsoft.
Information that is sent to Microsoft by this software will be used to provide you with Silverlight features and services. This information may be used to improve Silverlight and our other products and services, as well as for analysis purposes. Except as described in this statement, information you provide will not be transferred to third parties without your consent. We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as packaging, sending, and delivering purchases and other mailings, answering customer questions about software or services, processing event registration, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.Looks like the safest option is to check out the video demos on YouTube!
Labels: Enteprise Mashups, Flex
