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Ehe – erklärt für Scrum Practitioners

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Einführung
Scrum, ein agiles Prozess-Framework, wird von Scrum Fanatikern gerne in allen Lebenssituationen appliziert. Daher liegt es nahe, dass Scrum auch auf die Ehe (besonders, beim Lebensbund zweier Scrum Practitioners) Anwendung findet.
Dieses Standardwerk zeigt wie Scrum auf eine Ehe appliziert werden kann.

Dynamic Proxy for WCF with Castle DynamicProxy

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In a project I’m currently working we are using Windows Communication Foundation with automatically generated client proxies from interfaces in a shared library. This is the ideal approach for us because we are under control of the service provider and service consumer and when developing our stories for the application we can quickly introduce new service providers which then are automatically available at the client side. So far so good. But when using Windows Communication Foundation...

Google Collections

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Why should we leave apache common collection? There are several reasons to change the collections framework. Since the apache collections should be backward compatible it would not be possible to change to a actual Java version. It would be necessary to change to another collection framework (or write all the stuff by yourself). There are several projects which created a collections framework by themselves or took the apache collection library and upgraded it with generics. Guava is a project...

USB to DVI Adapter from Gefen

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You can’t imagine how frustrated I was when I received my new dell business notebook with Core i7 (hyperthreading) when I tried to attach two external monitors to the docking station while running the laptop screen as third monitor… It’s just not possible! As a software developer it is really helpful to have three monitors. I usually have the following work setup when having three monitors (normally 20” with 1600×1200): First monitor (primary with taskbar): VS2010...

VI like editing in eclipse

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Since a few days I’m using a plugin in eclipse which allows vi like editing. It’s called vrapper and can be found under . It is a very good light weight alternative to commercial vi plugins. In my opinion there are not more disadvantages as in other vi plugins. Sometimes it has hangers, this means it does not fall back to the main state instead it hangs in any command mode. In this rare cases normally helps to restart the plugin with the icon in eclipse. The installation is very...

Bad DNS Server Settings in GPO

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For a Project I hade change the DNS Server settings on several client computers. All Clients hade fixed IP and DNS Settings on the clients and the customer want not to change to a DHCP. I can understand this approach because fixing the IP of computers can improve network security and awareness. My first approach was to look inside the GPO of Windows XP. And after 2 minutes searching look what I fond under: “Computer Configuration – Administrative Templates – Network – DNS Client – DNS...

Obscure reactions within terminal client

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Since we use the new terminal client from microsoft we register sometimes obscure reactions. For example: program flipping while pressing the tab key solo, get the dialog which is shown normally pressing ‘Ctr-Alt-Del’ while pressing the delete key solo.

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