Open source is usually associated with the word "free", and in our minds we see a comfy zero followed by our local currency symbol. Of course, it is a huge misconception to think that open source technology comes at no cost. Okay, you won't have any...
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Are user stories an alternative to (smart) use cases?
About a week ago, someone (from the UK) send me an email with the following question: I like your article on Smart Use Cases. Before I throw my hat in the ring on this, could you tell me your feelings on User Stories as an alternative to Use...
Read moreThe war of the mobile platforms
A smartphone is a highly sophisticated piece of technology. Besides being highly functional, having a long battery life, these devices also need to make its owner look good. The trouble with smartphones (and al other mobile devices for that matter)...
Read moreDelivering products in agile (Smart) projects
In most cases where a form of agile software development is applied, projects are challenged with difficult issues, such as a swaggering scope, unclear and incomplete requirements, unstable software architecture, are quickly approaching dead lines....
Read moreThe Tesla "Cloud Mobile" Model S
When I heard about this on the RIA Weekly podcast, while I drove to the office this morning, I couldn't suppress a whoop: Tesla has deployed Adobe AIR in combination with the open source technology Merapi (Roundarch) inside their Model S super car....
Read moreAgile rigidity
One of the characteristics of most traditional – linear, waterfall – styled organizations is the extremely rigid execution of their software development projects . “Our handbook says we need to fill in this form, so that’s what we do guys.”...
Read moreJava based Integration Technology
Is Java the new hot or the next not? Arjan Kramer, Oracle Fusion thought leader at Capgemini Netherlands gives his Java temperature check in this guest blog post. And I can add that this will also be his last guest post, since he will join the league...
Read moreTech Predictions 2009: Webkit surpasses Flash Player penetration
As I wrote before in my post titled "Write once, REALLY run Everywhere", I believe WebKit to possibly be the most installed piece of open source software today. And if it isn't today, it will be next year, mark my words. However, that it is only a...
Read moreTech Predictions 2009: First convict for hacking into a cloud
The year 2009 will definitely see much cloud accumulation. Cloud computing is a hard to miss trend. Gartner ranked it #2 in their top-10 of tech trends. Let me list some noteworthy clouding initiatives that got to my attention: Microsoft has already...
Read moreMashups can be made by your grandma
There used to be a time that creating a webpage was a hard job. You had to open notepad, vim (or whatever editor was suitable those days) and you had to create every piece of markup by hand. Then came the first web editors (Microsoft Frontpage,...
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