There is in interesting discussion on Daniel Markham’s blog about the Tyranny of the Tools in relation to Agile software development. In a nutshell, “throwing so-called ‘Agile’ tools at development team does not make it Agile”; it’s the ways for thinking and learning which are truly important.
Continue reading Agile Tools and the Importance of Physical Interaction
Too few people understand the benefit of using a caching reverse proxy server to improve web page delivery speeds, and instead go straight to a CDN solution, which can be costly and complex to administer.
Continue reading Improving page speed: CDN vs Squid/Varnish/nginx/mod_proxy
The excellent non-nonsense Quick Tab extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/quicktab?hl=en-GB) makes Google Chrome much more usable, especially if you tend to have (like I do) many tabs open:
Why this isn’t standard in Chrome is baffling, but good work from Tom Lerendu (http://tomlerendu.com/chrome/)
I have recently been delivering training for content authors at a large local authority in the North of England (a new Content Management System is being rolled out), and I thought I would jot down my notes on what trainers should bear in mind when delivering software training:
I’ve just returned from UK Scale Camp 2010 (@scalecampuk), organised by The Guardian (and the indefatigable Michael Brunton-Spall, ). Here are some notes:
I liked the “unconference” format (no formal programme; attendees vote for their favourite sessions in advance), and ended up in four of the many sessions:
Matthew Skelton 