rapid, "throw-away" prototyping is the crucial and neglected stage in project design

a problem I think is endemic in the industry these days [is] the inability or unwillingness to engage in rapid prototyping. Every successful project I've ever worked on (and I've worked on some fairly large enterprise-sized projects), we started by designing and coding a quick "throw-away" skeleton of the application, that let us look at how the thing worked, where the unseen warts were, and where the vendors had lied about their APIs, etc. This is the crucial and neglected stage in project design, one that most modern design paradigms ignore or actively discourage.

The Hacker Ethic - Harming Developers? - O'Reilly Radar

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VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software

VirtualBox

spesielt interessant for ei dedikert test-/ CI-maskin (kontinuerleg integrasjon), der det kan køyrast ei eiga VM for kvar kunde-konfigurasjon som er under test/CI, kopiert frå ein felles mal med linux, postgresql og jboss. dvs at me treng berre å helda ved like ein mal...

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tracking status - scrumboard, kanban, etc

i like scrumy alot, but stumbled over other info on the way to it - so here's some stuff to check out later...

Tools:

Planning Poker
Mingle
ScrumDesk , w/ taskboard
Trichord
extreme planner

userStories' list of tools
Best Scrum tools (StackOverflow)

To read:
Visual Management for Agile Teams
Fra Scrum til Kanban (Norwegian)
Kanban in SW
Evolution of a Kanban board
Kanban and Pipelines
Kanban, Flow and Cadence

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prevent annoying non-secure warning in ms ie

"a protocol-independent absolute path:

img src="//domain.com/img/logo.png"

.... prevents that awful "This Page Contains Both Secure and Non-Secure Items" error message in IE"

"If the browser is viewing an page in SSL through HTTPS, then it'll request that asset with the https protocol, otherwise it'll request it with HTTP."

comment by Paul Irish @ Hidden Features of HTML - Stack Overflow

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CubicTest

CubicTest is a graphical Eclipse plug-in for writing Selenium and Watir tests. It makes tests faster and easier to write, and provides abstractions to make tests more robust and reusable.

CubicTest

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Remote debugging

Har ikke lest denne enda, men høres interessant ut...