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• The eternal conflict between customers and programmers

  In my experience it is not a good idea to put in direct communication stakeholders (customers) and programmers, here is the typical result Lets analyze this typical situation from the perspective of the stakeholder; he have all the reason to ask for new... Posted Sep 11 2008, 11:52 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences, Software Architecture

• Is policies for password really useful?

  This argument is discussed in the excellent book “Why Software Sucks“, password policies are really useful? I give you my opinion. I have really a lot of username/password ranges from my home banking account to various sites like, flickr,... Posted Aug 21 2008, 10:03 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

• Crunch mode is effective?

  I stumbled on this post of Marco, that directed me on the original post, speaking about crunch time. In my experience it is a very abused technique, expecially here in Italy, where managers tells you “We are late, we are not in time, we must hurry... Posted Aug 12 2008, 05:34 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

• Share documents in a distributed team

  Some days ago I received a mail with an analysis document for a Project I’m working to. Since we are a distributed team of programmers, someone still uses mail to share document with members of the team. This is simply WRONG!!! The reason are 1... Posted Jun 25 2008, 07:30 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

• The importance of good communication

  In a team, communication between members is of great importance. I found that a lot of bug or mistakes in software development, quite often derive from incomplete or not well conducted analysis. I’m not an expert of software analysis, but I found... Posted Jun 23 2008, 06:21 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

• History of a merge

  Source control management is the key to work on a team, but to work with it efficiently there is the need of experience. In a project, I’m working with some windows services that gather some data that is to be showed in a web application. I’m... Posted Jun 05 2008, 01:25 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

• Programmer as a user friend or enemy?

  In a project I’m working to, there is a point where the user is supposed to enter a series of word separated by space. A user call you telling that the routine does not work, you check the data and see that the object contains such a string “key1... Posted May 30 2008, 11:54 PM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

• Distributed team - wiki and documentation

  One of the key problem with a distributed environment is a good sharing of documentation. It is not important what kind of Lifecycle you can have, from waterfall to Extreme programming, you will have some sort of documentation that needs to be shared... Posted May 30 2008, 02:07 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

• Working with distributed team - VPN and source control

  Another great tool for distributed teams is VPN (Virtual Private Network), with a VPN all the team members can live in the same virtual local network. This is important, first of all for security. VPN estabilish a secure channel between computer using... Posted May 26 2008, 12:45 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

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• Working in distributed environment

  In the last years I worked mainly in distributed environment, with a company based in Milan (Italy), We have a development group distributed along the nation, and I would share my opinion and experiences about such a particular environment. First of all... Posted May 17 2008, 03:10 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

• Programming Experience, a reflection on

  This evening I’ve added a new category on the blog, and it’s called “Experiences”, and someone could ask why.  In these days I was thinking about my past experiences in programming or related stuff in these years. I’ve... Posted May 10 2008, 07:04 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences