Month: November 2011

  • Taking Application Release Automation to the Next Level

    Whether the driver is Agile, Cloud or DevOps1, or a “plain old” efficiency drive or process improvement initiative, forward-thinking organisations are currently looking for ways to improve their application release processes through automation. In an area where manual activities are still all too common, it’s unsurprising that the initial focus has been on automating the…

  • Tellme on Windows Phone vs Siri on iPhone

    In a Forbes interview with Microsoft’s Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, he contended that comparing Siri on the iPhone 4S and Tellme on Windows Phones are much alike. Craig says, At least from a technological capability you could argue Microsoft has had a similar capability in Windows Phone for more than a year……

  • Yaskawa Electric’s next-generation robot operated using Kinect: SmartPal VII

    Yaskawa Electric, who hold the largest share of the world’s industrial robot market, are developing the next-generation SmartPal VII. This robot can be operated remotely using a Kinect motion capture system. “Here, we’re demonstrati…

  • Help my app has been revoked!

    A couple of days ago I got a really nasty surprise, I went to open To Do Today to add something to remember to do later that day and was shocked to see the message “To Do Today has been revoked by Microsoft, please uninstall this app”. Wondering what sort of rule I had broken…

  • Different forces in Scrum and Kanban for the common goal

    Scrum and the Kanban method use different forces to achieve this same goal of creating the most possible value over time for the organization by continuously inspecting and adapting the processes and tools. In Scrum the main forces are the time boxed S…

  • New Release for Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS

    Today I just pushed a new version of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS to github (tagged v1.3.0). These changes include new versions for the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS, the Configuration Utility and the Cloud Ready Packages. There are a quite a few changes in this update including: New Cloud Ready Packages to support…

  • CQRS, l’architecture aux deux visages (partie 1)

    Dans un article précédent, nous avons vu comment l’approche DDD, via la définition et l’utilisation d’un Ubiquitous Language et d’un véritable modèle du domaine, peut faciliter la communication entre acteurs projet, aider à l’écriture d’un code plus expressif (et donc plus maintenable), et capable d’adresser la complexité – et les changements – du métier. Aujourd’hui,…

  • ChevronWP7 Labs Availability

    Hey folks, we want to brief you on an important milestone we’ve reached. Early this morning, we officially signed off on the final deployment of ChevronWP7 Labs. This marks the point in the development process where we leave the keys in the ignition and bail. Just kidding. Seriously though, we are very happy to announce…