Federico Cargnelutti

Month: May 2008

  • 20 Most Influential Open-Source Web Applications

    From managing databases to shopping, writing blogs to sending emails. Ten years of passion, great software architectures, team work and revolutionary ideas. Here are the most influential open-source PHP applications to date: 1998 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create…

  • 13 reasons why UML failed

    One of the reasons is that UML attempts to become a programming language. By aiming to be able to generate full code actually UML tries to be a programming language. In my mind there is a big problem with a general purpose graphical programming language. In human history the written form of all languages evolved…

  • Use a Web-based terminal for remote administration tasks

    Ajaxterm offers a simple solution to those who want to run a terminal over the Web for performing remote administration tasks. Vincent Danen tells you how to get it and configure it for Apache.

  • Scrum and XP work well together

    A programmer cannot be Agile if the person that manages him is not Agile as well, and vice versa. That’s why Scrum focuses on management and organization practices while XP focuses mostly on actual programming practices, and that’s why they work so well together. This excellent free book aims to give you a head start…

  • ScrumWorks: Agile Process Automation Tool

    What does Google, Sun Microsystems, HP, Amazon, Oracle and Motorola have in common? They all use ScrumWorks, an Agile process automation tool that enables teams to self-organize and maximize productivity. Sun Microsystems: “The best compliment I can give to ScrumWorks is that my staff doesn’t think about it. It is intuitive and respectful of the…