September 2007 - Page 2 of 2

7 Sep

2007

Google Reader, Now With Butter

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Blogging, Software Development, Tools and Utilities:

Google Reader has finally included search as a feature. THANK YOU. And the execution is flawless. The feature is as good as all other Google search features. http://www.google.com/reader/view/#search/scrum/ Well done, and this solidifies by choice of Google Reader as my preferred aggregator. The only problem now is that it cannot read into my firewall so […]

4 Sep

2007

The Absent Product Owner anti-Pattern

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Agile, Software Development:2 Comments

During my attendance at Agile2007 I learned about several anti-patterns for Agile adoption. I heard consistent stories of insufficient planning, poorly assembled backlogs, and ambiguous definitions of done. For many Agile teams, these smells are all too real. To help discuss them I have come up with a name around which we may build a vocabulary. The Pattern Name The […]

1 Sep

2007

Vista 64 Indexing Issue

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Microsoft:2 Comments

I installed Google Desktop and found that what this did to the performance of my machine was just not livable. After uninstalling Google Desktop and Sidebar and re-enabling search and Vista sidebar I kept receiving indexing errors in my Application Event Log. Mostly they were from Outlook and my performance was tubing. I wanted to […]