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This is a quick and pithy review of Emily Webber’s free e-book, “The Agile Team Onion“.

Project management is always guaranteed to bring out some strong opinions, and a recent Twitter discussion was no different – but, while the core discussion on Twitter was great, it really deserves a much longer-form treatment.

This is not a post about Brexit; this is about conversations.

Having droned on a little the other day about duplication in Stackanetes (in hindsight, I had intended to make a “it’s turtles all the way down” type jibe), I’ve been delighted to read lots of other people spouting the same opinion – nothing quite so grat…

There’s a great demo from the recent OpenStack Summit (wish I had been there): OpenStack is a known massive pain to get up and running, and having it in a reasonable set of containers that might be used to deploy it by default is really interesting to see.

Over the past couple of days I’ve been engaged in a Twitter discussion about serverless.

“Passion burns most fiercely when fuelled by success”

The various videos of the speakers from Tech2020 – including yours truly – are up and available for Skillsmatter members.

For a while now, I have been waxing lyrical (to those who will listen) about the variety of new tools and analyses available to people who want to prognosticate.

Not that long ago, I did a switch on my Android phone: against all the promises I made to myself beforehand, I switched on the Google account and allowed it to sync up to GCHQ/NSA the cloud.

In my previous post about virtualenv, I took a look at a way of making python environments a little bit more generic so that they could be moved around and redeployed at ease.

Recently I’ve been trying to bring an app running on a somewhat-old Python stack slightly more up-to-date.

I’ve been a Zend Framework user for a while.

This morning was the big “Dart language” unveil – the Dart websites are up at http://dartlang.org and http://dart.googlecode.com.

(For those looking for an rpm rant, sorry, this isn’t it….!)

Just yesterday people jumped on the biographies and abstract for a talk at goto: the Keynote is Google’s first public information on Dart, a “structured programming language for the world-wide web”.

Scott James Remnant blogged his ideas about how to improve the quality of Ubuntu releases recently, triggering some discussion at LWN about the topic.

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been pondering the above question for a number of different reasons.

Last night, we decided to order pizza – we don’t do it often, it’s lazy but sort of a treat.

Many words have been expended on this situation.

This has been an interesting election.

This is a follow-up post to my previous one.

I’ve been watching the Ubuntu “power users” group set up with enormous interest.

(this is part 2; you may want to read part 1 before reading this) I said last time I would go into the file maangement side of GNOME 3 a bit more, and I think I would be right in saying that there are a number of people who think this is probably one of t…

This is part one of what will be a multipart blog series: how tremendously exciting, eh?!

It has been an incredibly interesting week in free desktop-land, in that kind of “interesting like a soap opera” kind of way.

As predicted, Microsoft and Nokia are tying a knot of sorts, and all sorts of people are extremely disappointed by this news.

Today was Open Source Expo day.

One thing that has always bothered me is that there has always been little way of getting data in and out of Bongo stores easily.

Now, this isn’t something you’d probably want to do every day, but sometimes you have a 32-bit Fedora install which you’d like to be able to run 64-bit software on: my use case is that I have this desktop which I want to start running virtual machines on.

It looks like someone has been attacking Savane-derived hosting platforms.

I don’t particularly like talking law on this blog; it’s boring and – for the most part – disinteresting.

It’s been a little while since I talked about SparkleShare; since then it has moved project hosting (here’s my fork) and there have been various changes – thankfully, updating the packages for the new version and to get it on Fedora 14 didn’t take too lon…

It seems like everyone has had their word on the latest release, but like a fashionably-late party-goer, I’m going to waltz in at the 11th hour and offer my 2p 🙂 I think it’s well-known at this point that 14 has shaped up to be a very good release, but I’d

If you haven’t read it already, Bradley Kuhn’s take on where Canonical are aiming is deeply interesting.

For a number of years, the discussion amongst UK-based free software professionals has been about how to do more with Government.

LibreOffice is a wonderful, welcome, huge step forward for what was OpenOffice.org.

I don’t usually like to do a me-too post, but mizmo is right on again with her thoughts on jcm’s post.

Recently a new system has been added to people.fp.o, the ability to host yum repositories.

This evening I completed a new bit of code which has been uploaded to the bongo-web projects; it’s a Z-Push back-end and is only barely functional at this point: however, it works well enough that on my HTC Desire phone I can set up an ActiveSync account,…

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted anything about Bongo; for much of this year there hasn’t been an awful lot to write about – we’ve all been pretty busy.

For some reason, Google have decided to put large images as the backdrop to their search engine.

It’s only been a couple of months since I last wrote about the future of Thunderbird, but I’ve been thinking about it again recently.

Release time is coming again soon: Fedora 13 will be out in beta form in around a week, and it’s difficult not to get excited about this release.

Occasionally there are things that I read about on the web which happen to fit perfectly with some need I have at the time: and “Open Data Protocol”, or just oData, is one of them.

Tbird is a software product quite close to my heart: I think it’s important for a number of reasons, not least because it’s one of the few cross-platform mail clients that works well on Windows, and feels comfortable for use in a commercial context.

Since the news about Google demanding unfiltered search came out earlier today, I’ve speculated in a number of places that Google have broader reasons for wanting out of China, and that the issue of search – and, by extension, free speech – was not exactly

The new covenant covering Novell’s Moonlight is up, and unfortunately it looks like people who weren’t happy before still won’t be happy.