http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html The latest articles related to agile software development, products, and programming problems from AgileTrack Software, LLC. Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:55:07 MST http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html AgileTrack blog@agiletrack.net webmaster@agiletrack.net http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=18 <h2>Current Landscape</h2> <p>Low-level virtualization technology is maturing has been around for nearly 10-years for Intel-based hardware. Several virtualization products are emerging as leaders. As the virtualization options and technologies have matured, the word has spread and mainstream businesses are making the move to virtualization.</p> <p>While low-level virtualization technology appears to have reached a degree of maturity, the business challenge of deployment, management, and maintenance of virtualized systems is not so well understood by many. Businesses see potential benefits to virtualization, but there are obstacles to successfully implementing virtualization solutions.</p> <h2>Benefits</h2> http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=18 http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=18 Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:55:07 MST AgileTrack Software Blog http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=17 <h2>Virtualization</h2> <p>Virtualization is a technique for dividing physical computing resources and representing them as multiple execution environments. For software execution, virtualization can be implemented at many levels:</p> <ul> <li><i>Hardware emulation</i> – All aspects of a physical machine are simulated by software, allowing guest software to run unmodified (e.g. QEMU, Bochs)</li> <li><i>Full virtualization</i> – Hardware resources and CPU instructions are mediated through a hypervisor which allows multiple guest operating systems to run on native hardware unmodified (e.g. VMware, z/VM)</li> </ul> http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=17 http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=17 Thu, 6 Nov 2008 09:59:05 MST AgileTrack Software Blog http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=13 <p>I've recently witnessed a bit of strife in a development team I work with. The conflict orginated when source code was being arbitrarily reformatted to suit a particular developer's preferred formatting style—which was quite extreme and involved automatically reordering methods and variables within classes, as well as a host of other formatting details. The changes were resulting in merge conflicts that were extremely tedious and time-consuming to deal with. Tension was building in the team due to the uninvited and unwarranted changes to stable code. Eventually, the situation came to the point that team members were angry the issue needed to be resolved. The team's coding style and practices needed to be collectively decided and agreed upon.</p> http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=13 http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=13 Mon, 5 May 2008 20:14:19 MDT AgileTrack Software Blog http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=9 <p>I recently had a major ankle injury suffered during a soccer game. It put me off my feet about eight weeks. Not being able to drive made commuting back and forth to work a major inconvenience since I couldn't drive. </p> <p>Coincidentally, in the month or two preceding the injury, I had been pursuing a telecommuting plan with my employer and was already configured at home for it. For some employers, the notion of telecommuting is met with skepticism for various reasons.</p> http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=9 http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=9 Sat, 6 Oct 2007 12:25:11 MDT AgileTrack Software Blog http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=7 <p>Some time ago while faced with an impending move, I took the opportunity to express my point of view regarding ideal work space for myself. The question is that of office space versus cubicle space. I am reposting it here as I think it is still relevant.</p> <h2>Introduction</h2> http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=7 http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=7 Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:15:30 MDT AgileTrack Software Blog http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=4 <p>An important piece of any application is an easy-to-use installer. If tool is difficult to setup, it's unlikely to get used. For Windows distributions, AgileTrack uses Inno Setup to generate custom setup executables. Scripts were creating to build both full installers and update installers. It is assumed that the reader has basic familiarity with Inno Setup and its setup scripts.</p> http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=4 http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=4 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:15:36 MDT AgileTrack Software Blog http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=3 <p>To assist in deploying AgileTrack in environments that already have a Java installation that may not be in the path, a simple shell script was created that searches the local drive for possible Java installations, and attempts to verify that the major version requirement is met.</p> http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=3 http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=3 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:38:31 MDT AgileTrack Software Blog