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It is impossible to work between 9-5

Aga Gibowska — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:35:17 +0000

Have you ever wondered how many hours do you actually work at the office? Excluding lunch breaks and other breaks obviously. Have you ever calculated your productivity level during the day? How many hours are you able to work uninterrupted? If at all possible. Let’s be realistic Experts on time management claim that we can actually work up [...]

Why automatic deployment of PHP applications is important?

Jakub Zalas — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:33:15 +0000

There are many ways PHP applications are deployed on production servers. Some people use SCMs like Subversion to fetch latest revision of code. Others simply transfer the files via FTP, SSH or rsync. There is one problem with all of these approaches. They are error prone. File transfer is only part of the deployment process. If something needs [...]

A legend of the notorious Black Team

Aga Gibowska — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:03:59 +0000

In my last post about teams I claimed there is no universal recipe for breeding a jelled team. A few days ago I came across a great book Peopleware, first published 20 years ago and then updated a few times. The authors explain what it takes for the team to jell. In order to illustrate [...]

A recipe for a perfect team doesn’t exist?

Aga Gibowska — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:11:09 +0000

The value of having jelled teams in the company or working in one is pretty obvious. Such teams are more productive and work more efficiently since they feel comfortable with each other. Can we use some magic trick to create a good team? Not really. For managers it’s usually easier to point out team killing [...]

Is Lean software development better than Scrum?

Peter Horsten — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:54:07 +0000

Quite some years ago, after attending a presentation about lean production at Toyota, I decided to buy the book “The Toyota Way”. I had the feeling many of their 14 management principles would be applicable to professional services as well. I started reading the book, but never finished. Last weeks I read several posts [...]

Symfony 2 Revealed

Jakub Zalas — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:44:51 +0000

During the first international Symfony Live conference Fabien Potencier introduced Symfony 2. It’s a next generation framework which will change PHP world forever. I already wrote about the highlights of the conference and revealing the Symfony 2 was the most awaited. It’s only a preview release and first stable version is expected at the end of [...]

Symfony Live 2010 Highlights

Jakub Zalas — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:33:04 +0000

I’ve just returned from the first international Symfony Live conference in Paris. There are currently a lot of great things happening in the symfony (and Symfony ) world which I’d like to share. Here are the highlights of what has happened in the symfony world and what we can expect in the near future. CMS in [...]

3 secrets to becoming more innovative

Aga Gibowska — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:43:28 +0000

Recently, I’ve come cross an HBR article “The Innovator’s DNA”, in which they explain what makes some people innovative and what sets them apart from the rest of us? They also tried to answer the question why some companies are innovative and some are not? Where do the best ideas come from? The article is [...]

Getting More From The Lime Testing Framework

Jakub Zalas — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:27:25 +0000

Lime is a testing tool bundled with symfony. It can be, however, used separately with any PHP application. It is a great alternative for famous PHPUnit. Its advantage is simplicity. Since writing tests with lime is dead easy it’s a perfect choice for unit testing newbies. Simplicity What makes lime so powerful is that almost no effort is [...]

Are company meetings useless?

Aga Gibowska — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:48:18 +0000

The company life is all about communication be it direct, face-to-face or virtual and remote with colleagues, clients and company partners. Have you ever counted how many meetings you attend in the period of a month or a year? Many people’s work days consist of meetings almost entirely. After all these hours of discussing most [...]