Why every programmer should learn Python or Ruby | ReliScore.com

Why every programmer should learn Python or Ruby | ReliScore.com

If you are a student, you probably know C, C++ and Java. A few know VB, or C# / .NET. At some point you’ve probably built some web pages, so you know HTML, CSS and maybe JavaScript. By and large, it is difficult to find students who have any exposure to languages beyond this. And this is a shame because there are a number of programming languages out there which will make you a better programmer. In this article, we give some reasons why you must learn Python or Ruby.

Tools Journal - Top 15 Kanban Tools In An Agile World

Tools Journal - Top 15 Kanban Tools In An Agile World

Kanban, also spelled kamban and literally meaning "signboard" or "billboard", is a concept related to lean and just-in-time (JIT) production. According to Taiichi Ohno, the man credited with developing Just-in-time, kanban is one means through which JIT is achieved. Kanban is not an inventory control system. Rather, it is a scheduling system that tells you what to produce, when to produce it, and how much to produce.

In our continuous effort to bring you the most powerful software tools built for all the requirements of global IT Community across various categories we have been listing the best tools in each of the categories across software development life cycle. In this article lets have a look at over 10 of the best "Kanban" tools available in the market. Obviously i may have missed one or two and would appreciate if you could leave your comments with regards to any missed tools or ones listed below.

Small Changes – Small Improvements | Walk the walk

Small Changes – Small Improvements | Walk the walk

A couple of weeks ago I was discussing Kanban with one of the managers at the client I work for. He was curious about the method and wanted to learn more about it. Having talked about the power of making work visible and limiting work in progress, I argued that perhaps the single most important aspect of Kanban is its ability to drive evolutionary change: One small change will leave the way open for other changes. The response I got was that it sounded like too much of a sales pitch. He wanted to know if I had any experience from projects where this had happened. Fortunately I had…

flow.io: Lean project management based on kanban

flow.io: Lean project management based on kanban

flow is a lean project management application based on kanban.

Lean Web Development With Play Framework and Kanban | Walk the walk

Lean Web Development With Play Framework and Kanban | Walk the walk

In my day job, I write software for the enterprise, deployed on Oracle Weblogic Server or similar. Every time I run into a problem, be it an infrastructural or a programming problem, it almost always seem to take longer to fix than I expected. I have worked with Weblogic servers for about 6 years now and one thing’s for sure: Working with the application server has not gotten any easier (often times it actually feels more like working against it). With Play Framework it is quite the opposite. Whenever I run into a problem it always seems to take less time to solve it than I expected.
The way Play Framework is built, it lets you focus on the important stuff, building features which hopefully delivers business value (whatever that is) to your organization.