Earlier this year (Jan 2011) there was a lot of hoopla over an article by Scott Ambler on Dr. Dobbs Journal asking Certified ScrumMaster’s to denounce their CSM. Scott writes: My hope is that all Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs) will denounce the CSM designation if they haven’t done so already. You attended a workshop; it’s nothing to brag about. Also, if you work for an organization that still wants their agile staff to have the...

Adobe today announced the availability for AIR 2.7, which includes the SDK and the associated runtimes. The focus on recent releases, this release, and (I’d presume) upcoming releases, is continued emphasis on mobile/smartphone/tablet computing. Having recognized the mobile revolution years ago, even prior to the iPhone craze, Adobe continues to make a smart strategic move by combining the ubiquity of Flash and the massive collective...

Our company HR/Finance Exec had heard about the Agile transformation we’re currently undergoing, and tomorrow we’re doing a company BBQ – so jokingly she asked:   Does agile mean we will release the food as it is cooked? So I thought I’d take a lighthearted stab at explaining the Agile/Scrum approach if it were to be applied to a BBQ. To keep it digestible to someone who is unfamiliar with s/w development I...

I recently wrote an article for RIARockStars regarding my take on the CF ecosystem and my challenge as a manager to find talented CF developers – along with some our hiring strategies to work around that. I’ll follow up soon with a follow up post more focused on putting together a hiring strategy for managers of Flex and ColdFusion developers. …read the full...

I’ve been working on this ColdBox based feature for one of Amcom’s sites, however the rest of the site itself isn’t framework driven, so I decided to move the entire site into one common ColdBox application.Since I’m in rewriting mode, might as well take advantage of ColdFusion 9′s ORM/Hibernate feature. This technology is quite mindblasting, and I have to give major kudos to the ColdFusion team for making it...