You want to get your feeds closer? Check out this new application build using Adobe AIR and Flex 3: Snackr.
Snackr is a RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop. Thank you NJ.
The official guide to Adobe AIR, written by members of the AIR team, is out. One of the authors, Dragos Georgita is my colleague. He is the engineering manager for the Adobe AIR team here in Romania. He and his team are doing a lot of great things, especially related to AIR and JavaScript.
We are all here at the office very proud of him and we wish him many books to come. (I am still waiting for my signed copy 
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You can buy the book from amazon: Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide.
Yup, I took the Scrum Master training. And I was also fortunate to go to a training help by Ken Schwaber.
The training was intense. Two days of learning and doing exercises. Slowly, Ken pointed to us different aspects of the Scrum process and why it works. Anyway, Scrum is a great leap of fate. No more predictability. At least in the beginning. As the team is getting more an more used to Scrum and you can actually compute the team’s velocity (which by the way increases in the same time) you can predict better how much work the team can do.
What I really like is that some of the concepts from scrum are common sense and can be put in practice in any other development process. Like transparency and quality. In Scrum is just far more easy “enforce” them.
I hope that somewhere in the future I will be able to work in a project fully developed in fully adopted Scrum.
Of course there are some issues about Scrum that remained unresolved for me. Like what can you do when the “self managed” team does not manage itself. Like what are the main factors that can make a project developed in Scrum fail or make the Scrum process being abandoned. I do not believe in the “silver bullet” concept. Or let’s put it this way: during the course I liked something that Ken said to us. There is no magic in software development, as in if you strongly and passionately believe that something can be done it will indeed be done. And managers often believe in such magic. But the same thing I guess can be applied also to Scrum. If you strongly and passionately believe that Scrum can work it will indeed really work?
