Maybe it’s all the time I spend with startups, but while I strongly value Scrum’s ideas behind self-organizing teams & continual feedback – I can’t help but feel Kanban represents the next level…

View original post here:
Kanban is the New Scrum

Most of the applications must have a some kind of a search function. The problem is that search functions are often huge resource hogs and they can kill the performance of our application by causing…

Link:
Spring Data Solr Tutorial: Introduction to Solr

On Google Glass

May 18, 2013

This is Dr. Martin Cooper, the man generally credited with inventing the cellular telephone. He is holding a prototype of the Motorola DynaTAC, the first handheld mobile phone. The DynaTAC cost $3995 (in 1983 dollars!), was the size of a brick, and weighed one and three-quarter pounds. A full charge would give you 30 minutes talk time or about…

Continue reading here:
On Google Glass

Java6 added a new utility class for reading input data from character based devices including command line. java.io.Console can be used to read input from command line, but unfortunately it doesn't work on most of IDE like Eclipse and Netbeans. As per Javadoc call to System.Console() will return attached console to JVM, if it has been…

Read the original post:
Reading input and password from command line in Java using java.io.Console – Example tutorial

I propose you an exercise: when you come back to work tomorrow morning, navigate through the source code of your project and try to find opportunities of refactoring. Do it even if your boss…

See original here:
Look At It Carefully And You Will Find Something To Improve

Mobile Customer Experience Mobile customer experience is a high priority, but many organizations are struggling. Here are 4 reasons your mobile channel might be off track and what you can do about it. Social Business Transformation Well into 2013, a new report shows that organizations are still slow to adopt social business tools . But we believe the social business transformation will happen . Why Big Data Projects Fail Big data is a beast and most organizations struggle to get all the pieces into place to gain actionable insights from it. Get some tips on how to succeed in your Big Data project . Join the Customer Journeys Tweet Jam Join CMSWire and a great group of experts on May 24th at 10am PT, 1pm ET, 1700 GMT as we discuss the benefits and challenges of customer journey mapping. Get the Tweet Jam details here . Webinar: How to Accelerate Sales & Marketing Cycles with Social Business Tools Join…

Read more:
This Week: 4 Challenges for Mobile Customer Experience + Why Big Data Projects Fail