Most interesting links of April ’12

Recommended Readings V. Duarte: Story Points Considered Harmful – Or why the future of estimation is really in our past… (also as 1h video) – thoughtful and data-backed claim that there is a much cheaper way for estimating work throughput than estimating each story in story points (SP) and that is simply counting the stories.

Exposing Functionality Over HTTP with Groovy and Ultra-Lightweight HTTP Servers

I needed a quick and simple way to enable some users to query a table and figured out that the easiest solution was to use an embedded, ligthweight HTTP server so that the users could type a URL in their browser and get the results. The question was, of course, which server is best for

Groovy Grape: Troubleshooting Failed Download

If you use the Grape’s @Grab annotation to get dependencies for your Groovy scripts at runtime and their retrieval fails with the exception “General error during conversion: Error grabbing Grapes — [unresolved dependency: …not found]” and a useless stack trace then you migth want to know that you can configure Ivy to log all the