Technoetic

I’ve been thinking about the problem of integrating existing LDAP user profiles into the XPlanner domain model. This is something that has been requested from users with large-scale XPlanner installations. The challenge is how to make the domain model easily and uniformly accessible to the XPlanner code when it’s partitioned across a combination of relational […]

“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.” — Alfred Adler
David J. Anderson has recently stated the opinion that trust is the essence of agile development methods. He says that trust is more of what agile is all about than short feedback loops and a focus on people […]

A Google Earth product has been release and will replace the Keyhole application. My initial impressions are mixed. The Google Earth animations didn’t seem as smooth as Keyhole’s. However there are a few additional features. For example, there are 3D representations of buildings for some major cities. Before you get too excited, these are plain […]

XPlanner was originally developed to support a distributed XP team. This team had been using note cards successfully for over a year but a key stakeholder had been required to travel extensively and they wanted to monitor the development progress. Later, we used XPlanner as part of a larger tool suite to support distributed […]

Yesterday I wrote about the Keyhole application that provides 3D satellite imagery for much of the Earth. It appears that Google has a new version of Keyhole in beta that will add several new features including 3D buildings for some cities instead of the flat texture mapping used in Keyhole.
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