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links for 2006-10-08

Scrum (development) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“Scrum is a lightweight agile method for software development.”

(tags: Agile Development methodology software management scrum Design)
Scrum (management) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“Scrum is an agile method for project management. Scrum was named as a project management style in auto and consumer product manufacturing companies by Takeuchi and Nonaka in “The New New Product Development Game” (Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb 1986)”

(tags: Agile Scrum development methodology process Software management)

Evolving Amazon’s services into products | InfoWorld | Column | 2006-10-04 | By Jon Udell

Fully 70 percent of the effort required to do business online involves doing the heavy lifting that supports Web-scale applications, he said. After a decade of training, Amazon got really good at pumping iron, and now you can hire its muscle to do some he

(tags: Amazon Business development webservices API services Enterprise integration ERP)
XINS - XML Interface for Network Services

“XINS is an open-source Web Services technology, supporting SOAP, XML-RPC and REST. It consists mainly of an XML-based specification format and a Java-based implementation framework.”

(tags: webservices SOA API development framework Java opensource xml soap REST)

Podiobooks.com - Serialized audio books in podcast form

Podcasting serialized books

(tags: Books Audio podcasts audiobooks Podcast audiobook mp3 RSS Audible)
Burpee - Hot Pepper Biker Billy Hybrid

“A blazingly hot jalapeno-the hottest we’ve ever tasted.”

(tags: Food Cooking capsaicin peppers)
12-Pound folding bike

Invented by Sir Clive Sinclair the A-bike is a result of a five year research and development program by Sinclair Research. (Roughly $372.00 USD)

(tags: Cycling bicycle bike Commuting)
MindPerformanceHacks - Mentat Wiki

“Mind Performance Hacks [ISBN]0596101538 is a new book by Ron Hale-Evans, maintainer of the Mentat Wiki”

(tags: productivity DIY Education Hack Hacks HOWTO Life lifehacks performance Books Business tips toread tutorial Wiki)
Where to find your favorite shows online - TV Squad

“a comprehensive (legal) list of all the television programs that can be downloaded or streamed online.”

(tags: Entertainment tv video media online Web)
mod_limitipconn.c

allows web server administrators to limit the number of simultaneous downloads permitted from a single IP address

(tags: apache extensions Linux Software web IT Technology Bandwidth)

coachwei.com :: Thank God - Java EE Is Not Like Ajax

“To make Java EE more like Ajax? Which aspect of Ajax that we really want Java EE to be like? The difficulty in developing Ajax code? The difficulty in maintaining Ajax code? The extreme fragile nature of Ajax code? …”

(tags: AJAX programming development Dev architecture JavaScript Java web2.0 web20)
Code Search - O’Reilly Labs

“The database currently contains over 123,000 individual examples, composed of 2.6 million lines of code — all edited and ready to use.”

(tags: programming code search development)