Signs for OpenSpace Technology event
Check out this site. You don’t need professional-looking signs. Hand-made ones will do just fine!
Check out this site. You don’t need professional-looking signs. Hand-made ones will do just fine!
This year, I am going to attend the AgileOpen Europe conference. It is a 2-day event based using OpenSpace Technology, on 11th and 12th of June. It will be the second OpenSpace event I attend that I don’t facilitate myself. Maybe I’ll meet some of you there?
Subversive is one of the two Subversion plugins for Eclipse (the other is, of course, Subclipse). At each installation of Eclipse, I try to switch from one to the other.
Today, I’ve installed Eclipse 3.3RC1 along with Subversive 1.1.2. When trying to commit, there was an annoying behavior: Subversive would display an error (Malformed network data?!) and imply that the files were not committed (same display as before in the Synchronize view).
Lies! All lies! ;-)
An innocent Synchronize reveals spurious conflicts: the code was checked-in… it’s just that Subversive (or rather the SVN client) did not refresh properly. All you can do then is ask for Override and Update.
Fortunately, it’s not hard to fix. Go the SVN configuration in the Preferences window. In the SVN Client tab, you’ll find a drop-down box. The default selection is JavaSVN “Subversive Default”. Switch to SVN Kit: problem solved.
Yep… if you want Agle, you can just go and buy it.
Just kidding of course. As it happens, there actually is a company called Agile Software (imagine the false-positives when doing a Google search for Agile methodologies. I had the worst time when trying to find conferences on Agile methodologies in Paris recently; all I could find was conferences of Agile Software products). They even have the agile.com domain! They also have a logo that has suspicious similarities to the Scrum Alliance logo. However, they are a PLM company and seem to bear no relationship with the Agile & Scrum communities or practices. PLM is a relatively hot domain nowadays, as witnessed last year by the purchase of MatrixOne by Dassault Systèmes, the industry leader, and this year of UGS by Siemens.
As it appears, they (Agile Software) have themselves been acquired recently by Oracle. (All that for a fun headline!)
While I was at it, I checked other Agile-style domains.
I attended XP Day Paris earlier this month. A very good conference, sorely needed considering the lack of debate on such topics in France (there has been one XP Day Paris in 2006, but I hadn’t heard about it then). Atmosphere was especially friendly and laid-back, which is not that common in French conferences. However, I feel it could still do better in terms of mixing participants. Groups of people of various companies (especially Valtech, Octo, Hortis) were very visible and tended to stay between themselves (I was guilty of that too). Not sure what could have been done, though.
I was a bit disappointed by a number of presentations. Many of them seemed to be aimed at newbies, even though it was clear that any participants would have at least a passing knowledge of Agile methods.
Interestingly, some presentations did a very good job of selling themselves (well-known speaker, tempting descriptions…) but were not that good.
Some of which I really enjoyed include:
Some sessions that showed me new things
Oh, and I should mention that I won a book! There were about 20 to be won, and about 100 of us attending, so I had a good chance ;-)
The book is on Ruby. Maybe that’s the sign I was waiting for before really learning it? Well, anyway, that will have to wait for a few months until I get a grip on my everyday work, if at all possible.
Update (20/06/2007): some presentations are now available online. Added links in the comments above.
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