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.NET. WINDOWS. J2EE. LINUX. UNIX/MAC. THE WAR.

.NET stands up against J2EE

"Management, The", The Key to Unleashing Business Potential for the Next Generation of Businesses

5 things you must know about self publishing

As we delve deep into the abyss and dismay of digital phenomenon, it is becoming increasingly clear and confusing on how we can or will benefit from the factors such as self-satisfaction and self-healing, and bring that sense of self-upheavel towards the cause of self-maturity to the level where we are capable of self-publishing and share our experiences of life and its learning with the larger reader group and that is the world.

7 Must Read Productivity Steps to Finally Getting Things Done

7 Must Read Productivity Steps to Finally Getting Things Done

7 Must Read Productivity Steps to Finally Getting Things Done

7 Must Read Productivity Steps to Finally Getting Things Done

78 Photography Rules for Complete Idiots

78 funny photography rules that features both right and wrong examples for each tip.

A new experiment - download monthly issues

I've started a new experiment with my essays section and have created a monthly issue article write-up. Its still in its infancy but would love to hear your feedback and comments. Check out the June 2006 issue here. And send your comments at info@rapidblog.com.

Agile Project Management

It was a delightful experience to hear Scott Ambler speak about Agile Methods and Techniques at the Xerox PARC in the heart of Sillicon Valley. And surely he popped different ideas of "the" traditional approach towards a more "agile" approach in management of the project. Does it means we do it fast and try to get rid of it? ASAP. Well surely there is still a long way to go. There is still a long debate about what goes in managing the project so perfectly.

Agile Retrospectives: Do they add any business value?

Once a scrum master shared a concern that the retrospectives have become boring and neither she nor her team members feel any value out of it. We all have faced this challenge in the past and would like to share few pointers than can be considered as good guiding principles for retrospectives and why they are the strongest tool in the agile toolbox to make any team better, and it does deliver business value.

Agile Testing

While most of us agree that how hard it is to cope with the nagging of the documentation stuff required while the ordinary system team (i.e. the developers along with their PM) is working off to resolve the baselines of the code. In the testing world, certain things don't work right. What written up there in that document might not have the effect while its up there on the screen or is running behind the code.

Agility & Business. Technology Transformation & Strategy. Data-Driven Businesses. ED-01.

Analyzing Open Source Application World's breadth & depth

It lurked me today while getting into the unknown dimensions with which some applications architecture is deepened so deep. As I was surfing around the tools which are there on the open source world I found plenty which are duplicate efforts or efforts with minor changes to the one which are already out there. Now, this could be very much true for various other suite of applications. And its true that there is no control over the open source community on what you can or should build and what you cannot or shouldn't! At SourceForge the possibilities are endless. And it should be because we are talking about the open source world. Its a free community of developers and by far the best. But the point here is should this community be controlled in terms of wasting the re-development of those products which are already out there?

Apple Seeds (courtesy Hugh/Gapingvoid)

This is an interesting piece by Hugh MacLeod, and touches the core - the basic fundamentals of how long you have to wait to wait for something in anticipation for the much awaited outcome that is not going to realize very soon. And then in the end its a may be. And yes rightly said Hugh. But how many of us realize that patience is a virtue, and in a tweeting world today I wouldn't count many. 

Apple. Innovation. Style. Class. Value for money.

I am just blown away by the latest iWork'08 and the very new Numbers application by Apple. Is Apple the only company in the world which packages innovation, style, class and value for money all in one? I'm also amazed to see the enhancements made to iLife'08. Shouldn't all the companies be innovative and creative like Apple?

Argh F%@$!^$ Delta!

It was a tough vacation going out and coming in, but the rest in between (without Delta) was just heavenly. I am beyond belief that how such a large airline employ so many incompetent, irresponsible and incapable workforce. From Atlanta to Calgary, no one in Delta customer service is either knowledgeable and nor helping. This is the second time around Delta lost our checked-in bags on the same trip. After waiting at the customs for few hours past the midnight hour, and that too after a gruesome 10 hour in-flight-and-transit journey we finally gave up and came back with filled delayed-bags-forms at the customs (courtesy Customs and Air Canada rep as Delta folks were missing-in-the-F-action). It is our third day without any bags in our site or at our doorsteps, and no follow-up and courtesy call from Delta's reps yet of what happened and what is going to happen next. Is Delta doing this on purpose or is it in its business nature well embedded in? In any case, someone's gotta give at Delta on this, and yes, some price we paid for the trip to make it this memorable. I hope someone 's listening at F%@$!^$ Delta!!

Authentic Leadership in the Context of Business Agility

Authentic leadership in the context of Business Agility is a construct that is gaining increasing attention resulting from challenges faced by organizations relating to building culture, driving organizations in the right direction of people and customer profitability, and building favorable outcomes.

Back on with blogging...

I'd been super buried in stuff which is beyond belief, and lately I realized I didn't have any means to connect or share with tech community at all. Soon after I converted my regular blog rapidblog.com into rapidBOOKS LP, I'd been struggling with the idea of where to post. And yes, I had this domain for a quite sometime now and why not put it to use, and ultimately this is my name and my blog! Duh!

Barcode's day today!

Basecamp. 37Signals. New Look. Happy or sad?

OK so Basecamp got upgraded this weekend - got a new facelift. A lotsa features aren't working. Seriously. I was mostly shocked that none of my projects show up now anymore, and I believe they also do not offerr a free plan anymore. Really? I wanna know why. 

Birth of Open Source World & archival of this blog

I haven't really been active from past couple of months on my blog as most of my energy is going towards my new project Dextrus Prosoft, Inc. And now, with my involvement increasing in open source projects I've finally decided to expand the horizon for my blog and come up with a space which is more info-sourcable (no such word but look at it as 'information' + 'source') than what it already is and hence the birth of Open Source World.