Stephen W. Cote's Bloghttp://www.imnmotion.com/Blog/steve/RSS/en-us4320 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:52:57 GMT http://www.imnmotion.com/Blog/steve/Google Chrome A beta of [url=http://www.google.com/chrome]Google Chrome[/url] arrived, and, I installed it post-haste. Much to my satisfaction, it did fairly well. I made sure the [url=/]whitefrost.com[/url] page loaded and operated as expected, and verified the [url=/projects/engine/]Engine for Web Applications[/url] framework and [url=/documents/html/technical/web/coreWeb.html]Core Web[/url] project (a consumer of [url=/documents/html/technical/application/accountManager4.html]Account Manager 4[/url]) functioned. Second, I ran through the [url=/projects/engine/demonstrations/]Engine demonstrations[/url] to test key features. The XSLT demos (#4 and #6) caused a little trouble, but, they're currently inoperable for FireFox as well. Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:17:34 GMT http://www.imnmotion.com/Blog/steve/Meeting Velocity I've taken notice of an interesting separation in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development]Agile[/url] ([url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development)]Scrum[/url], specifically) companies: there are many metrics to track the performance of individual contributors ([i]pigs[/i]), and virtually no metrics to track the performance of the stakeholders and managers ([i]chickens[/i]). When tracking performance by velocity, contributor performance may be affected adversely by stakeholder and manager influence as it applies to the contributors. Simultaneously, no metric exists to track the effectiveness of the outside influence. As the [i]chicken and pig[/i] joke of [i]Scrum[/i] goes, pigs are committed, chickens are only involved. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:11:29 GMT http://www.imnmotion.com/Blog/steve/Account Manager 4 Beta A beta of [url=/documents/html/technical/application/accountManager4.html]Account Manager 4[/url] is now available. Account Manager 4 and [url=/documents/html/technical/web/coreWeb.html]Core Web 4[/url] are the projects used to operate this Web site, including the Blog, Forum, etc. The interactive UI elements are managed in [i]Core Web[/i] with [url=/projects/engine/]Engine for Web Applications[/url].