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  • Cone of Uncertainty in classic and agile projects

    - by DigiMortal
    David Starr from Scrum.org made interesting session in TechEd Europe 2012 - Implementing Scrum Using Team Foundation Server 2012. One of interesting things for me was how Cone of Uncertainty looks like in agile projects (or how agile methodologies distort the cone we know from waterfall projects). This posting illustrates two cones – one for waterfall and one for agile world. Cone of Uncertainty Cone of Uncertainty was introduced to software development community by Steve McConnell and it visualizes how accurate are our estimates over project timeline. Here is the Cone of Uncertainty when we deal with waterfall and Big Design Up-Front (BDUF). Cone of Uncertainty. Taken from MSDN Library page Estimating. The closer we are to project end the more accurate are our estimates. When project ends we know exactly how much every task took time. As we can see then cone is wide when we usually have to give our estimates – it happens somewhere between Initial Project Concept and Requirements Complete. Don’t ask me why Initial Project Concept is the stage where some companies give their best estimates – they just do it every time and doesn’t learn a thing later. This cone is inevitable for software development and agile methodologies that try to make software world better are also able to change the cone. Cone of Uncertainty in agile projects Agile methodologies usually try to avoid BDUF, waterfalls and other things that make all our mistakes highly expensive. Of course, we are not the only ones who make mistakes – don’t also forget our dear customers. Agile methodologies take development as creational work and focus on making it better. One main trick is to focus on small and short iterations. What it means? We are estimating functionalities that are easier for us to understand and implement. Therefore our estimates are more accurate. As we move from few big iterations to many small iterations we also distort and slice Cone of Uncertainty. This is how cone looks when agile methodologies are used. Cone of Uncertainty in agile projects. We have more cones to live with but they are way smaller. I don’t have any numbers to put here because I found any but still this “chart” should give you the point: more smaller iterations cause more but way smaller cones of uncertainty. We can handle these small uncertainties because steps we take to complete small tasks are more predictable and doesn’t grow very often above our heads. One more note. Consider that both of charts given in this posting describe exactly the same phase of same project – just uncertainties are different.

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  • SEO For Beginners, Common Terms, Part 1

    If you are a complete beginner, then I bet you will be confused with all the terms and phrases surrounding SEO. To help you breakthrough this intimate circle we will explain some of the jargon you are likely to come across.

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  • Affiliate programs offering redirects back to my site after successful conversion

    - by Andy
    I am building a website where members are rewarded for actions completed. For some of these actions within my site (such as uploading a photo), I would like to offer my members the ability to participate in affiliate sites as follows: Once they complete the required action, they are rewarded on my site. Ideally, I would pass in the redirect url when sending the member to their site. Are there affiliate programs that offer to redirect back to your site?

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  • Sync calendar and contacts with Android smartphone

    - by takeshin
    I use Thunderbird with Lighting calendar addon, which stores calendar data in iCalendar format. How can I synchronize this calendar and Thunderbird contacts with Android based smartphone (HTC Wildfire). I know I can use Google Account, but I'd prefer to use bluetooth or even better, local access via wi-fi (no internet connection available). Is there any complete Ubuntu smartphone synchronization guide somewhere?

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  • Webcast - June 27th: Announcing Oracle SuperCluster T5-8: Our Fastest Engineered System

    - by Javier Puerta
    Join us for a live webcast with Oracle Executive Vice President, John Fowler, as he announces the new Oracle SuperCluster T5-8: Our Fastest Engineered System. Learn how the new Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 delivers: Extreme performance through Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exalogic, Oracle’s virtualization solutions, and the world’s fastest servers Highest availability with no single point of failure and 99.999% uptime Highest efficiency with unmatched price/performance and the lowest operating costs A complete engineered system ideal for database and application consolidation and private cloud Register here

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  • Looking to apply Bundle Patch 1 on Enterprise Manager 12c ? Here is a workbook to help you ....

    - by Pankaj
    Are you planning to apply Bundle patch 1 for EM 12c ?  If yes , check this workbook which describes the complete flow . Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Workbook for Applying Bundle Patch 1 (February 2012) and 12.1.0.2 Plugins [ID 1393173.1] Applies to:Enterprise Manager Base Platform - Version: 12.1.0.1.0 to 12.1.0.1.0 - Release: 12.1 to 12.1 PurposeThis document provides an overview of the installation steps needed to apply Bundle Patch 1 on the EM Cloud Control 12c Oracle Management Service OMS) and Management Agent.

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  • Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0

    - by Robert Baumgartner
    Am Mittwoch den 25. Juli 2012 um 19:00 wird die neu Version der Oracle Exalogic Cloud Software 2.0, dem Engenieered System für den Oracle WebLogic Server, vorgestellt. Learn how Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0 can help your company: Close business up to 10x faster Protect sensitive data with complete application isolation Rapidly respond to market needs by provisioning applications 6x faster Maximize availability and productivity with 2x faster Näheres siehe Register now

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  • cannot install cinnimon 2.xx

    - by user207587
    Fetched 841 kB in 28s (29.3 kB/s) W: GPG error: http://packages.mate-desktop.org raring Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 68980A0EA10B4DE8 W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/pmcenery/ppa/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. userx@bw:~$ How do I fix that? How do I add a PUBKEY to get needed files to complete install of Cinnamon?

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  • Silverlight Introduction

    This article will be very helpful for beginners who want to know and start development on Silverlight projects. In this article I begin with the definition of Silverlight, then move on to define its purpose. You will also see the development tools required to work with Silverlight. At the end of this article you will have been given a complete introduction.

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  • Doesn't boot after installing fglrx for ati 5650

    - by elivanja
    Hi, I'm a complete noob here, I recently bought an HP 3161 with an ATI 5650 hd card, when I installed 10.04 LTS everything was working fine until I was prompted to activate proprietary driver fglrx, after I did this I couldn't reboot (not even in recovery mode) until I reinstalled 10.04, what can I do? I would appreciate any help since I haven't been able to find anyone with the same problem, thanks.

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  • Understanding the SQL Server 2008 R2 Installation Center

    - by Enrique Lima
    What is available to us through those links?  Have you taken the time to explore and identify what could be useful to you? One of many gems that has come to my attention is the possibility of provisioning SQL Server to work in an image based environment (hint: Virtualization Template perhaps?!?).   Planning: Includes requirements information, documentation, how to guides, online documentation installation and other tools. Among the other tools you will find the System Configuration checker and The Upgrade Advisor. Both tools very important to ensure your deployment and installation would be successful.     Installation:  This sections focuses on getting installations going, from standalone to cluster when it comes to new instances.  Add new nodes to an existing cluster, and also perform upgrades (in this case to SQL Server 2008 R2).  Also part of this is the option to find updates available.   Maintenance: We find in this section, options that will assist us in tasks like repairing corrupt installations to removing nodes from a cluster. An option that is interesting (and we should discuss benefits later in another post) is to be able to do an Edition Upgrade, this is a feature expansion and addition based on your product installation (Developer to Enterprise, for example)   Tools:  From the System Configuration Checker to identify readiness for deployment in a successful manner, to being able to report on features installed.  And being able to run upgrades of existing packages developed in the 2005 offering to the 2008 R2 release for SSIS.   Resources: Useful and essential links to gather information and guidance.   Advanced: Here is where it gets interesting.  I break this down into 3 main groups: Installation Automation: When you install SQL Server there is a configuration file that gets dropped (ConfigurationFile.ini) that would allow for you to perform automated installations.  There are switches and options that go with this to have that process working. Cluster configuration for Sysprep: Create images that are cluster ready, 2 options, start the prep work, and then the complete once at the final destination. Stand-alone configuration for Sysprep:  Like the clustering counterpart, 2 options, prep and complete.  Giving you the option to create standard templates for your SQL Server deployments. I find it fitting that the 3 topics listed here should (and will) be additional topics I will discuss.   Options: Very clear and specific about what this means. Select the Processor Type or the Installation Media Root Path.

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  • creating a bootable USB stick on OS X

    - by Rob
    I'm trying to create a bootable USB stick on OS X using http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx When this finishes, I get a message in terminal saying "695+1 records in 695+1 records out 729067520 bytes transferred in 264.563662 secs (2755736 bytes/sec)" But a message pops up saying "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" Options are Initialize, Ignore or Eject. What am I doing wrong or omitting. (oh - complete novice)

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  • Specifying and applying broad changes to a program

    - by Victor Nicollet
    How do you handle incomplete feature requests, when the ones asking for the feature cannot possibly write a complete request? Consider an imaginary situation. You are a tech lead working on a piece of software that revolves around managing profiles (maybe they're contacts in a CRM-type application, or employees in an HR application), with many operations being directly or indirectly performed on those profiles — edit fields, add comments, attach documents, send e-mail... The higher-ups decide that a lock functionality should be added whereby a profile can be locked to prevent anyone else from doing any operations on it until it's unlocked — this feature would be used by security agents to prevent anyone from touching a profile pending a security audit. Obviously, such a feature interacts with many other existing features related to profiles. For example: Can one add a comment to a locked profile? Can one see e-mails that were sent by the system to the owner of a locked profile? Can one see who recently edited a locked profile? If an e-mail was in the process of being sent when the lock happened, is the e-mail sending canceled, delayed or performed as if nothing happened? If I just changed a profile and click the "cancel" link on the confirmation, does the lock prevent the cancel or does it still go through? In all of these cases, how do I tell the user that a lock is in place? Depending on the software, there could be hundreds of such interactions, and each interaction requires a decision — is the lock going to apply and if it does, how will it be displayed to the user? And the higher-ups asking for the feature probably only see a small fraction of these, so you will probably have a lot of questions coming up while you are working on the feature. How would you and your team handle this? Would you expect the higher-ups to come up with a complete description of all cases where the lock should apply (and how), and treat all other cases as if the lock did not exist? Would you try to determine all potential interactions based on existing specifications and code, list them and ask the higher-ups to make a decision on all those where the decision is not obvious? Would you just start working and ask questions as they come up? Would you try to change their minds and settle on a more easily described feature with similar effects? The information about existing features is, as I understand it, in the code — how do you bridge the gap between the decision-makers and that information they cannot access?

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  • La version 2.2 de NeoAxis 3D est disponible le moteur de jeux vidéo en C# se voit doter d'un outil d'analyse de performance

    La version 2.2 de NeoAxis 3D est disponible Le moteur de jeux vidéo, multi-plateforme, en C# atteint la version 2.2. Même si c'est une mise à jour mineure, celle-ci apporte : Physique des personnages : refonte complète du code de la physique des personnages ;Physique des personnages : ajout du support de la position accroupie ;Ajout d'un outil d'analyse de performance dans l'éditeur de carte. L'outil fournit des informations détaillées sur les composants du moteur, l'utilisation des ressources...

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  • YouTube Developers Live: WeVideo

    YouTube Developers Live: WeVideo Please use Google Moderator to ask questions: goo.gl This week, we chat with the folks behind WeVideo. They're a cloud-based video editor, which lets users publish their final movie on YouTube. WeVideo's rendering farm prepares the complete movie from high-quality originals and uploads the final file to the user's YouTube channel using the Data API. From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 00:00 More in Science & Technology

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  • JCP.next.3: time to get to work

    - by Patrick Curran
    As I've previously reported in this blog, we planned three JSRs to improve the JCP’s processes and to meet our members’ expectations for change. The first - JCP.next.1, or more formally JSR 348: Towards a new version of the Java Community Process - was completed in October 2011. This focused on a small number of simple but important changes to make our process more transparent and to enable broader participation. We're already seeing the benefits of these changes as new and existing JSRs adopt the new requirements. However, because we wanted to complete this JSR quickly we deliberately postponed a number of more complex items, including everything that would require modifying the JSPA (the legal agreement that members sign when they join the organization) to a follow-on JSR. The second JSR (JSR 355: JCP Executive Committee Merge) is in progress now and will complete later this year. This JSR is even simpler than the first, and is focused solely on merging the two Executive Committees into one for greater efficiency and to encourage synergies between the Java ME and Java SE platforms. Continuing the momentum to move Java and the JCP forward we have just filed the third JSR (JCP.next.3) as JSR 358: A major revision of the Java Community Process. This JSR will modify the JSPA as well as the Process Document, and will tackle a large number of complex issues, many of them postponed from JSR 348. For these reasons we expect to spend a considerable amount of time working on it - at least a year, and probably more. The current version of the JSPA was created back in 2002, although some minor changes were introduced in 2005. Since then the organization and the environment in which we operate have changed significantly, and it is now time to revise our processes to ensure that they meet our current needs. We have a long list of topics to be considered, including the role of independent implementations (those not derived from the Reference Implementation), licensing and open source, ensuring that our new transparency requirements are implemented correctly, compatibility policy and TCKs, the role of individual members, patent policy, and IP flow. The Expert Group for JSR 358, as with all process-change JSRs, consists of all members of the Executive Committees. Even though the JSR has just been filed we started discussions on the various topics several months ago (see the EC's meeting minutes for details) and our EC members - including the new members who joined within the last year or two - are actively engaged. Now it's your opportunity to get involved. As required by version 2.8 of our Process (introduced with JSR 348) we will conduct all our business in the open. We have a public java.net project where you can follow and participate in our work. All of our deliberations will be copied to a public Observer mailing list, we'll track our issues on a public Issue Tracker, and all our documents (meeting agendas and minutes, task lists, working drafts) will be published in our Document Archive. We're just getting started, but we do want your input. Please visit us on java.net where you can learn how to participate. Let's get to work...

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  • Does it make the game more fun when the user is forced to progress through the levels sequentially rather than letting them pick and play?

    - by BeachRunnerJoe
    Hello. For the first time in my game, I'm stuck with a real design dilemma. I guess that's a good thing ;) I'm building a word puzzle game that has five levels, each with 30 puzzles. Currently, the user has to solve one puzzle at a time before moving to the next. However, I'm finding the user occasionally gets stuck on a puzzle, at which point they can no longer play until they solve it. This is obviously bad because many people will probably just quit playing the game and delete the app. The only elegant solution I can find to helping the player get unstuck is changing the design of the game to allow the users to pick any puzzle to play at any time. This way, if they get stuck, they can come back to it later and at least they have other puzzles to play in the meantime. It's my opinion, however, that this new flow design doesn't make the game as fun as the original flow design where the player has to complete a puzzle before moving to the next. To me, it's like anything else, when you only have one of something, it's more enjoyable, but when you have 30 of something, it's far less enjoyable. In fact, when I present the user with 30 puzzles to choose from, I'm concerned I might be making them feel like it's a lot of work they have to do and that's bad. I even had a tester voluntarily tell me that being forced to complete a puzzle before moving to the next is actually motivating. My questions are... Do you agree/disagree? Do you have any suggestions for how I can help the player get unstuck? Thanks so much in advance for your thoughts! EDIT: I should mention that I've already considered a few other solutions to helping the user get unstuck, but none of them seem like good ideas. They are... Add more hints: Currently, the user gets two hints per puzzle. If I increase the hint count, it only makes the game more easy and still leaves the possibility of the user getting stuck. Add a "Show Solution" button: This seems like a bad idea because it's my opinion this takes the fun out of the game for many people who would probably otherwise solve the puzzle if they didn't have the quick option to see the solution.

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  • Fun with SQL Server Profiler trace files and PowerShell

    Running Profiler traces against multiple servers becomes a painful process when it’s time to collate and filter all that data. It would be time-consuming, frustrating and messy if Laerte hadn’t written this handy PowerShell script (complete with examples) to help you out. Free trial of SQL Backup™“SQL Backup was able to cut down my backup time significantly AND achieved a 90% compression at the same time!” Joe Cheng. Download a free trial now.

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  • Téléchargez gratuitement la suite LEONARDI V8.2, l'environnement open-source pour les applications métier

    Téléchargez gratuitement la suite LEONARDI V8.2 L'environnement open-source pour les applications métier LEONARDI est une suite logicielle complète, composée d'un atelier de conception graphique et d'un moteur d'exécution. Elle permet de créer rapidement et d'exécuter des applications sur mesure, qu'elles soient autonomes ou déployées sur le web. [IMG]http://demo.lyria.com/freeversion/images/leonardi.gif[/IMG] LEONARDI permet aux développeurs de se concentrer sur le fonctionnel métier plutôt que sur la technologie, en procédant d'abord par modélisation et par configuration, puis par programmation Java ciblée quand cela s'avère nécessaire. Le nom...

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  • Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service 2012 Specialization

    - by Richard Lefebvre
    Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service 2012 Certified Implementation Specialist (1Z1-465) is now in beta. Partners who pass the exam will be identified to customers, Oracle, and other partners as Certified Implementation Specialists. This is also the final step towards completion of the business and competency requirements for company-level Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service 2012 Specialization. To view the complete Specialization criteria table, click here

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  • Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) officially released

    - by Bill Osuch
    Google today officially released their latest version of the Android OS - 2.3, Gingerbread. It won't hit a phone (the Nexus S) until 12/16, but developers can start working with it today. Some of the new features include: Enhancements for game development Rich multimedia New forms of communication Simplified debug builds Integrated ProGuard support HierarchyViewer improvements Preview of new UI Builder See the complete details at http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3.html

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