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For me agile methodology is making software in the simplest manner / way.

In plain words agile methodology is not your typical software development process which goes through a lot of complex and useless process, its the opposite its not over planned, does not conform with requirements (instead actual client feedback), adaptive and easy to change. Like what wikipedia says a WORKING SOFTWARE and not a bunch of documentations, status reports and progress bars bleh bluh.

let me emphasize thiiis, I’m not against known OLD software methods I respect them as I respect the elders, but what I’m saying is if your just gonna make a small and simple database applications why go to these processes hassles, why not be simple.

From WikiPedia
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
Some of the principles behind the Agile Manifesto are:

• Customer satisfaction by rapid, continuous delivery of useful software
• Working software is delivered frequently (weeks rather than months)
• Working software is the principal measure of progress
• Even late changes in requirements are welcomed
• Close, daily cooperation between business people and developers
• Face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication (Co-location)
• Projects are built around motivated individuals, who should be trusted
• Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design
• Simplicity
• Self-organizing teams
• Regular adaptation to changing circumstances

In closing I like what the book 37 signals said, The less your app is a chore to build, the better it will be.

Visit Sumo Paint web site.
So lately online or web based photo editing tools is sprunging all over the web from picnik to splashup and of course adobe’s very own photoshop express all made with flash, but sumo for me is nicest of them all acts and behave like photoshop fast and easy photo editng tool, for pips on the go and just want to edit something right away to post on their blogs and no photoshop installed in their friends pc, sumo to the rescue, Im still figuring out though why did they named it sumo.

photo from img.genbeta.com

Cavendish web 2.0 mediawiki skin
My cavendish remix on the popular mozilla cavendish media wiki skin
Many thanks to the original cavendish developers and designers from IPB WIKI especially to Peter

Description:

1. It’s a clean and simple web.2.0 themed cavendish skin.
2. Supports mediawiki 1.13 and below

Download the zip Here: cavendishweb20.zip

2 weeks of using redmine and getting used to it. What can I say?… let me explain in simple words to describe it. Its a simple application that has everything you want. But be reminded there is no task feature or milestones to track project or modules progress. Its good if you have an existing project already and just letting pips add new features and bugs to it. but if your just starting one it confuses you a lot. whether your a manager or developer.

So what redmine? visit redmine project management site here

Pretty cool feature, just came out of adobe’s newest installation of photoshop PHOTOSHOP CS 4
Tadah!… content aware scaling – meaning photoshop knows the content of you image, so if you do scaling or strtching of the image it stretchs or scales gracefully this is way cool save web developers editing time, hehe no more time wasting cloning.

Visit Rentie beta Today

just to give it a head start rentie is now up. I know more things has to be done. and let us take it from here one at a time.

Rentie the online rental listing service will soon go online. An ideal rental listing where anyone can view or post rentals from house for rent apartment for rent, room for rent and etc… It will start with its beta service where people can post rental services right away. The prioritzed rental service will be the following:

1. house for rent

2. apartment for rent

3. room for rent

Right now for the beta renties focus is the cebu philippines area.

From Smashing Magazine

Rule #1: Separate Javascript Functionality

Bad markup:

Never include Javascript events as inline attributes. This practice should be completely wiped from your mind.

<a onclick="doSomething()" href="#">Click!</a>

Good markup:

All Javascript behaviours should be included in external script files and linked to the document with a

<a href="backuplink.html" class="doSomething">Click!</a>

And the Javascript inside the myscript.js file would contain something like this:

A jquery plugin that creates a multiple column selectbox
Donwload plugin at: http://code.google.com/p/jquerymulticolumnselectbox/

Directions for Use:

1. Include of course jquery.js and jquery.multicolselect.js

2. Create a table put an id to the div “ex. datatable”

3. Run the plugin using this command

$("#datatable").multicolselect({
	   		buttonImage:"selectbutton.gif",
			valueCol:1,
	  		hideCol:0
	   });

4 . Note you need the “selectbutton.gif” so save it.
5. Then your done.

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