Most interesting links of June ’13

Recommended Readings Agile, process, SW dev, people etc. Real Options—a Mindset – an intro into the Real Options approach, which has been quite a hot topic and a transformational way of thinking for a number of inspiring people (Dan North, Liz Keogh etc.). “Real Options help us to better make decisions and commitments with three simple

Brief Intro Into Random/Stochastic/Probabilistic/Simulation/Property-Based Testing

John Hughes and Stuart Halloway had very interesting talks about random testing at NDC Oslo, a topic I have been ignorant of but want to explore more now. Contrary to the typical example-based unit tests where the developer specifies inputs, interactions, and specific validations, random testing generates random input data and/or sequences of interactions and

Patterns of Effective Delivery – Challenge Your Understanding Of Agile (RootsConf 2011)

Highlights from Dan North‘s excellent, inspiring, and insightful talk Patterns of Effective Delivery at RootConf 2011. North has a unique take on what agile development is, going beyond the established (and rather limitied and rigid) views. I really recommend this talk to learn more about effective teams, about North’s “shocking,” beyond-agile experience, and for great

Installing Latest Node.JS And NPM Modules With Puppet

PuppetLabs’ nodejs module is unfortunately quite out of date, providing Node.js 0.6, however there is a simple way to get the latest Node: Install the puppetlabs-apt module Add ppa:chris-lea/node.js to apt Install nodejs Steal the npm provider from the puppetlabs-nodejs module Install a npm module Code:

Making Sense Out of Datomic, The Revolutionary Non-NoSQL Database

I have finally managed to understand one of the most unusual databases of today, Datomic, and would like to share it with you. Thanks to Stuart Halloway and his workshop! Why? Why?!? As we shall see shortly, Datomic is very different from the traditional RDBMS databases as well as the various NoSQL databases. It even

Ignore requirements to gain flexibility, value, insights! The power of why

I would like to share an eye-opening experience I have recently made. I have learned that if we do not just passively accept the requirements given to us but carefuly analyse the reasons behind them (and the reasons behind the reasons), we gain incredible power and flexibility. By understanding the real value behind it and