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Fixed Async Manifesto

In which I tweak the Manifesto for Async Software Development. Tweaked Manifesto for Async Software Development It's time for a 21st century successor to Agile and its most popular incarnation, Scrum. After many years of developing software using Agile methods like Scrum, the time has come to value: Modern tools

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Presentation ideas

In which I share some ideas for presentations. Practical experience with Clojure, in production. Cross-institutional collaboration and code sharing beyond Portlets and war files Static site generators as alternative to tools like WordPress and Drupal Getting Things Done: personal productivity and workflow for higher education IT professionals DevOps : beyond the

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Office 365: No, you can't reply in a new window.

In which I share the inane Office365 annoyance of the day. I was trying to reply to a message and tried to launch my reply into a new window for more comfortable editing. Nope.

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OWA trying to load LinkedIn script insecurely

In which I share another Office365 glitch. Apparently Microsoft's $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn didn't include acquiring enough SSL certificates. Cheapskates. /owa/?realm=...&path=/calendar/view/Week:1 Mixed Content: The page at 'https://outlook.office.com/owa/?realm=...&path=/calendar/view/Week' was loaded over HTTPS,

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Contributor License Agreement landscape

In which I survey the landscape of Contributor License Agreement practices. Motivation This post is supporting background for some conversation and formation of opinions. This post isn't those conversations or opinions. See also Analysis of Apache Foundation practices around CLAs Proposal to adjust Apereo ICLA policy to match Apereo policy

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Office365 login glitch

In which I share a recent Office365 glitch: inability to log in. Was unable to log in to Outlook Web Application for a little while.

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Office365 glitch switching between Conversation and Messages view

In which I share the Office365 glitch-of-the-day. What happened In the course of a technical support call with Microsoft learning about potential workarounds for the goofy user experience upon sending an email to a list, one of the suggestions was to toggle back and forth between Conversations and Messages views

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Transient Office365 OWA searching glitch

In which I share today's Office365 OWA searching bug. What I was trying to do I was trying to search for emails involving the license-discussion@apereo.org email list, so that I could reply to one of them. What happened (See screenshot in post image.) Clicked into search box Typed

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Dysfunctional Office365 experiences replying to email lists

In which I share some information about glitchy user experiences replying to email lists. Caveats I am no longer myself able to replicate this glitch, though a colleague continues to see it. What happens Use Office365 Outlook Web Application. Be subscribed to an email list to which you also have

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Why bother stopping hassling Apereo contributors for ICLAs?

You might wonder why getting Apereo to be more like Apache and stop hassling contributors to sign ICLAs, and to stop hassling committers to check whether would-be contributors have signed ICLAs, is important to me. Suppose Apereo continues for 100 years. (The goal is to continue adding value to higher

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Apache contributors need not sign a CLA

In which I observe that the Apache Software Foundation does not require code contributors to sign Contributor License Agreements. I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. As always in this blog I speak only for myself and not for my employer, organizations with which I work,

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Parable of the web framework selection

In which I work an example of how important ICLA gravitas is to adopters of open source software. Disclaimer As always on this blog I speak only for myself and not for my employer, the organizations and projects I work with, etc. Background Sometimes open source projects require contributors to

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New GitHub organizations for uPortal

In which I articulate a path forward for migrating uPortal GitHub repositories out of the legacy "Jasig" organization and into new organizations. Problem to be solved Currently, uPortal and some related Git repositories are in the Jasig GitHub organization. Jasig is a deprecated brand, with Apereo its successor.

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Seeking leads on university usages of Git

In which I ask for leads and examples in support of a conference presentation I'm to give. I am seeking interesting examples of use of Git in universities especially in tracking things that are not "development" of the "source code" of "software" especially usages

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Apereo Newsletters Collected

In which I scratch my itch for a page that lists recent Apereo newsletters. Notes here are selfishly focused on aspects of Apereo most relevant to me. Ordered most recent to least recent. 2016 February and March (Posted to Apereo Announcements Google Group.) ESUP-Days 21 / Apereo Europe 2016 happened. Slides

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Waterfall should basically just enjoy a comfortable retirement

In which I reflect on violent language in the title of an article criticizing Scrum. On violent death Someone recently recommended to me the article "Why Scrum Should Basically Just Die In A Fire" The article was of course a criticism of Scrum cataloging how it didn't work

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2016-03-18 Upgrade from Commons Collections 3.2.1 to 3.2.2

Fifteen minute talk at a developers' brownbag regarding the Commons Collections 3.2.1 object serialization vulnerability. Slide deck (Listing of all talks.) Post photo credit: Jelene Morris via CC-BY-2.0.

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Talks

In which I capture links to talks I give. 2016-03-18 : Apache Commons Collections 3.2.1* is bad (Application Design Review brownbag) Post image credit: Fabrice Florin via CC-BY-SA-2.0.

Codethulu

In which I repost a classic which has sadly disappeared from its original home on the Web. © 1982, the anonymous embedded programmer. 1 – Since time immemorial, new programmers have appeared in order to bring change to the world. They wish for a chance to show the world their skill and

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Resources introducing Scrum

In which I share some links and guidance for getting started understanding Scrum specifically and agile methods generally. Quickest introduction Read the Scrum Guide. Essential reading To understand Scrum it helps to understand the idea of agile methods generally. The Agile Manifesto articulates the big idea of agile, that what's

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Split Product Owner into Product Backlog Manager and Product Manager?

In which I share and summarize resources about whether and when a unified "big" Scrum Product Owner role is preferable or when the role ought to be split between a Product Backlog Manager and a Product Manager. I have recently been in some discussions about how "big&

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Follow up on Open Apereo 2015 uPortal BoF

In which I follow up on the Open Apereo 2015 conference as regards uPortal project and product vision. Lead-in At the Open Apereo 2015 conference, I facilitated a couple of birds-of-a-feather sessions on uPortal project and product vision. Face-to-face discussion is a wonderful thing for its high bandwidth. It is,

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Vision for Productized uPortal

In which I articulate a vision for a uPortal that feels much more like a product. Executive Summary The next generation of uPortal should be more like a product and less like a construction set. Most adopters will adopt pre-fabricated ready-to-go artifacts (think: Docker containers). They will point it at

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Agile Product Management with Scrum summarized

Agile Product Management with Scrum summarized In which I summarize Roman Pichler’s book on product management in Scrum, on transitioning into the product owner role. —— The product owner is responsible for the business value of the work of the Scrum team and for the resulting product, and has corresponding

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Agile Product Management with Scrum : Chapter 6 : Transitioning into the product owner role

In which I summarize and discuss chapter 6 of Roman Pichler’s book on product management in Scrum, on transitioning into the product owner role. Summary of Chapter 6 How to become a great product owner requires time and dedication Dos and Do nots Do say what needs doing. Do