After holiday

Just returned from holiday. Our international project will start at September 1/2006.

It will be an interesting project that will facilitate Agile software methodology(sort of lean and scrum)

I believe identifying and removing waste from software development processes is really challenging and sometimes error-prone. At least we will apply lessons learned from previous mistakes.

We expect to do daily review meetings and tracking to determine earned value/effort.

All in all i am excited that i have a lot to learn from that experience.

Ajax

It seems that AJAX will be the big thing for 2005-06.
Web services concept was, in my opinion, a general without a soldier for the UI front. AJAX requires a solid XML processing infrastructure and provides responsive user interfaces.
AJAX will nicely compliment web services infrastructure and be used together. (See how XForms are being implemented server side, which was impossible before AJAX era.)


Microsoft and all other big players are aligning behind it. Enterprise Java specs will make AJAX a core feature of JSF implementations. I am asking some browser vendors to call to arms.

From now any serious intranet application should be built on AJAX techniques, provided that browser can be pinned down to major version number. Google effect is pushing the limits and setting the standarts.

Married!!

From 9Th of July i am a married geek. Honeymoon was in Cyprus, it is a wonderful place neglected by the world. For a week We visited many wonderful shores of Turkish side of the island. I had the opportunity to listen to my inner voice.

Now i believe i have to devote more time to open source projects and be more vocal about open source adoption in my current company.

Marriage is going fantastic, we are learning to cook traditional Turkish meals and enjoying Istanbul. I love her so much.

New Projects

Moving to new projects.. I will be building lots of user interface development, using in-house developed XML based toolkit. Then a renderer will translate it to Java Swing. I will be writing rules and actions encoded in XML format. I hope to apply user interface design principles and be consistent over all. The project is massive, at least 40 developers will be working on it. My team is 5-6 skilled developers, hopefully we will build on consistency from day 1.

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