In the software development world there are two main camps for the process of how software should be built: waterfall and agile (usually a form of Scrum). Agile is an iterative incremental process and waterfall is the classical sequential process. This sequential approach is full of inventory, and inventory = waste. As someone who has made software both ways I will show you why I prefer Scrum.

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Recently I started my own Google Code project to share some of the reusable code I have developed. There are lots of good general purpose JavaScript libraries such as jQuery or Closure but sometimes there are things that are out of the scope for these types of libraries. One of those things is basic math and statistics operations.

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I wrote about Windows Media Center TV Pack yesterday and how it looked like Microsoft was going to royally botch it up. At the time it was all hearsay, but not any more. It looks like Microsoft decided to move up the announcement date for the TV Pack from next month to today. This is a situation where nobody comes out a winner. Read more

You may have noticed that I regularly tout Media Center as one of my favorite features of Windows Vista. I have even been using/loving it as my sole DVR for about three months now. It should come as no surprise then that I have been following the next iteration codenamed Fiji quite closely. While the software sounds good for the most part, I can’t understand why it seems that Microsoft is trying to make sure Vista Media Center (VMC) never takes off. Read more

I have recently been in the market for a new smartphone. The iPhone looks like some nice hardware and I’m already an AT&T customer, but after seeing news like this I’m just not buying. Apple has proven to me that I don’t want to live in a closed ecosystem. Sometimes it really is true that “you don’t know what you got ‘till it’s gone.”

BTW, I really didn’t want to post anything pro-Microsoft or anti-Apple today, but this was the news I was dealt. :) Read more