GuruStop.NET

Few minutes ago, I saw @mShady, my dear friend (Real life friend, not just on twitter) tweeting:

RT @ASGEgypt: RT @scrum_coach: Should the team be allowed to drop the retrospective? http://bit.ly/bkOgv #scrum #agile #lean #xp #kanban

I checked the post and found the options are:

1. Yes, It’s their process why not?
2. No, explain to them and work through why the retrospective is so important.
3. Maybe, if they are no longer a team then why continue with Scrum?
4. Only do retrospectives once a quarter and build up a good list of things to change.
5. Yes, the process will take care of itself we don’t need to watch it that closely. After all it’s common sense!

Interesting question! Not the most important topic in Scrum but like the way Agile works in general, if you play with it wrong, it is an indicator you have something else wrong as well before that, so, it gives you an alert.

See the rest of the blog post. I find the options my main interest, and wanted to share with you here how I answered this question:

Yet another internal .NET Team email in my current company, Injazat Data Systems, that I sent yesterday, and am sharing with you as well.

jQuery:

· Simplify calling ASP.NET AJAX services from jQuery

· Use jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX to build a client side Repeater

· Reordering invoice lines using jqGrid and TableDND extension

· LA.NET jQuery Posts/Articles

Agile

· Implementing Scrum

ASP.NET

· Web Development With ASP.NET Learning Material (Course – Source: MSDN Ramp up Learning Program)

· ASP.NET Articles on CodeGain (Many Articles)

WCF

· Posting Twitter Tweets from ASP.NET using the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2

WF

· Migration Guidance for the WF Developer

o Part 1

o Part 2

Office Open XML

· Embedding Any File Type, Like PDF, in an Open XML File

Fun

· YoutTube: Windows Live Messenger 10th Anniversary Celebration Video

· 99 Amazing Widescreen Wallpapers To Spice Up Your Desktop

As usual, those and others are all originally shared on my Google Reader Shared Items:

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/08221036579558509505

Regards,

Happy weekend,

The Useless Introduction You Used To :)

This post has taken so long to be started in writing. I’ve been busy with many events in my life lately. Suffering from frequent limited internet access lately, and, all this moving between companies thing has been eating me. And yes, I admit, I’ have been as tired and more honestly lazy as you expected me to be!

Hey, there’s a little warning. This post is not exactly for my usual audience. I’m sorry, but introducing Domain Driven Design is not one of the goals for this post. There’re many interesting resources and books (even FREE: InfoQ, Domain Driven Design Quickly) on the topic. However, if you leave me a comment telling me to make a write-up on the topic, of course I will :) :).

One more thing. Another reason I’m working on this is that I’m preparing for an internal session here in Raya about Practical Lightweight Domain Driven Design. This session is truly internal yet. It should be recorded though but I’m not sure whether it’ll be possible to publish the videos (Yeah, I will see how we can have our public sessions of possible sure!). If you have a user group and would like me to give this session in a group meeting, I’ll be glad to do.

I’m joining RAYA Software starting next month (October), part of RAYA IT, a business line of 3 main business lines that form RAYA Crop., a well known name in the IT industry over the Middleeast.

My role is very interesting. The entire company is interesting to me, not just for the size and brand, but for the nature of how things are going in there nowadays, which makes RAYA the perfect place to join at this specific time.

About the role

I’m joining RAYA with the same title I hold current, a senior software engineer, yet, I’m going to be a member of a team of only 3 guys, M. Yosry, whom I haven’t met but is said to be a real guru by all guys I met in RAYA, M. Zahaby, an ex-RAYA returning in it recently and a personal friend of mine whom I had technical chats with and even worked with in a single freelance and knew what kind of a geek he really is, and myself!

Let me give a very big thank you to all of you who have come to dotNETwork 3rd gathering yesterday. To those who don’t know what I’m talking about, read here :).

I’ve enjoyed with you all Mohamed Hossam‘s great session on Windows Workflow, and enjoyed you, the great attendees during my Scrum session. his came clear in many areas. The fun sole that you all had was great, the input and interactivity from the most was very inspiring, and the way how our talk moved from applying Scrum in the real world environments from the real world perspective to the issues that any developer would suffer from / worry about in his company in  general – the job security talk was fun too, LOL – so, I hope I could share with you some real world experience I had through my friend developer net as well as shared what Scrum is mainly about, and the small enhancements/techniques I have invented and/or learned from colleagues though applying it.

The gathering files have already been uploaded. WF’s session files contain the session slides as well as the files for the session’s main demo. The files for Scrum session include the slides and sample Excel files used for tracking and Burndown chart generation.