Agile software development Agile software development is a set of principles for software development in which requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing,[1] cross-functional teams. It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, and continuous improvement, and it encourages rapid and flexible response to change.[2] Agile itself has never defined any specific methods to achieve this, but many have grown up as a result and have been recognized as being 'Agile'. The Manifesto for Agile Software Development,[3] also known as the Agile Manifesto, was first proclaimed in 2001, after "agile methodology" was originally introduced in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The manifesto came out of the DSDM Consortium in 1994, although its roots go back to the mid 1980s at DuPont and texts by James Martin[4] and James Kerr et al.[5] History[edit] Incremental software development methods trace back to 1957.[6] In 1974, E. The Agile Manifesto[edit] Agile principles[edit]
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Indian education, employment sector - a study in contrasts Nov 26, 2011, 03.23am IST Sonalde Desai The yin and the yang of Indian education and employment sectors present a fascinating study in contrasts. Speak to an educationist and you will be swept away on the rising tide of optimism generated by a groundswell of enrolment. Talk to anyone in the private sector and you will get an earful about labour shortages. How do we reconcile these contrasting pictures? The India Human Development Survey, conducted by the National Council of Applied Economic Research and University of Maryland, provides a striking example. However, even on rudimentary skills such as ability to converse fluently in English, these new college graduates appear to fare more poorly than the college graduates of their fathers' generation. Of male graduates born in the 1930s, 53% are fluent in English compared to only 31% among those who were born in the 1970s. We have few other markers of skills to compare across generations. What accounts for this decline?
25 Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools – AndiSmith.com Over the last few years there has been one tool that has helped out every web developer more than any other – the browser developer tools. Working in harmony with the web browser, the developer tools allows us to manipulate DOM elements, CSS styles, JavaScript and other useful information from the same window often in real time. Historically developers have used Firefox's Firebug add-on to develop and debug their websites, but more recently each browser has developed its own set of tools and each comes with its own advantages and disadvantages. Nowadays it seems hard to imagine ever building a website without one of these handy tools, which are normally accessible by either pressing "F12″ in Windows or "Cmd" ⌘, "Option" ⌥ and "I" on the Mac, or by right clicking on the page and selecting “Inspect Element”. But are you using the developer tools to their full potential? The "Console" Tab Referencing the current element Using console.log to output multiple values and objects at the same time
World Statistics including country capitals, area, population [Stats were last updated 07-Dec-2008] Sort by: Country | Area | Population City-specific population statisticsWorld's Largest CitiesWorld's Largest Urban AreasCountry Population Projections Sources Other reference Informationmongabay.comTropical rainforest informationTropical freshwater fish informationImages / Photos Twitter, Facebook take the lead in blogosphere as blog searches fall by half - The Economic Times Ameya Chumbhale, ET Bureau Nov 17, 2011, 05.53am IST MUMBAI: Blogging is old hat. A prominent trend-tracking tool shows that blog searches around the globe have halved, while micro-blogging platforms Twitter and Facebook have grown, suggesting a seminal shift in online communication. Google Insights, which tracks search terms on Google search engine worldwide, shows a 50% decline for blogs in 2010. On the other hand, micro-blogging sites Twitter and Facebook logged exponential rise in users. While the number of blogs on the Internet, as tracked by BlogPulse, rose just 21% from 126 million in 2009 to 152 million in 2010, the Tweets on Twitter were up 160% over the same period, according to Internet monitoring website pingdom.com. A comparative figure for Facebook was not available, but the social networking site showed a 74% rise in users during the period. Celebrities such as Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, and even the more regular Ramgopal Verma haven't blogged for over six months now.
Installing Mercurial on a Shared Web Server without Root Access (HostEurope) SVN did a great job for me for at least four years now. Lately, I stumbled upon Mercurial and decided to have a closer look. It turned out that Mercurial (also called “hg”) comes with some great advantages, namely: Not a “Version Control System” (VCS), but a “Distributed Version Control System” (DVCS) enabling you to check in changes locally (offline, without an internet connection). The advantages of this one are also discussed in detail in PEP 374 (Python Foundation).Available in pure Python, therefore installable on a standard shared web server without root access (not a virtual server, just a “web host”). This post is a small guide on how to accomplish the mission of installing Mercurial (the pure Python version) on a shared web host. Requirements Installation (Step by Step) Unpack the Mercurial source tarball on your local system.Create a temporary directory on your web server and transfer the extracted Mercurial source tree to that directory. Setting up hgwebdir.cgi Securing hgwebdir
Breathingearth - CO2, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time Facial monitoring: The all-telling eye We know what you’re thinking IMAGINE browsing a website when a saucy ad for lingerie catches your eye. You don't click on it, merely smile and go to another page. Yet it follows you, putting up more racy pictures, perhaps even the offer of a discount. Finally, irked by its persistence, you frown. Uses for this technology would not, of course, be confined to advertising. Advertising firms already film how people react to ads, usually in an artificial setting. Some consumer-research companies also employ goggle-mounted cameras to track eye movements so they can be sure what their subjects are looking at. This work is now moving online. One of the companies doing such work, Realeyes, which is based in London, has been developing a system that combines eye-spying webcams with emotional analysis. At present the system is being used on purpose-built websites with, for instance, online research groups testing the effect of various display ads.
Beautiful Slide Out Navigation: A CSS and jQuery Tutorial >> Web Developer Geeks Today I want to show you how to create an incredible slide out menu or navigation for your website. The navigation will be almost hidden – the items only slide out when the user hovers over the area next to them. This gives a beautiful effect and using this technique can save your some space on your website. The items will be semi-transparent which means that content under them will not be completely hidden. The only thing we will need for the navigation is a simple unordered list with links inside of the list elements: Demo The list is getting an ID because we want to refer to it later in the JavaScript. First, we define the CSS properties for the list: The navigation should always be approachable for the user, even if he scrolls down the page. For the links in the list elements, we define the following CSS properties: The margin-left is set to a negative value because we want to hide most of the icon and only reveal it when we hover over the list items.
Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. Don't Just Ask: Why Women Don't Negotiate - Megan McArdle - Business One of the reasons that women are paid less than men is that they don't negotiate. The advice that follows is usually, "Well, negotiate!" But in fact, women don't negotiate for very good reason, as Kevin Drum points out: I apologize for sticking around, but there's a reason. I've run into this before myself, and have always told women "Just ask! Their study...found that women's reluctance [to negotiate] was based on an entirely reasonable and accurate view of how they were likely to be treated if they did...." So listen up, boys: there's a reason women don't negotiate as hard as men. When I was in business school, I learned about a case that had been run experimentally. But what a difference a name makes! No woman is unaware of these dynamics. 1. 2. 3. Someone will also probably hypothesize that I am, in fact, an unbearably pushy person. I am sure that none of the students who read that case thought to themselves "women should not take charge". * Note: I have not made any demands.
Most useful tools for JavaScript developers >> Web Developer Geeks Diva.js (Document Image Viewer with AJAX) is a Javascript frontend for viewing documents, designed to work with digital libraries to present multi-page documents as a single, continuous item. Only the pages that are being viewed at any given time are actually present in the document, with the rest appended as necessary, ensuring efficient memory usage and high loading speeds. Written as a jQuery plugin, diva.js requires the jQuery Javascript library, along with several jQuery plugins and the jQuery UI, all of which are included. On the backend, the images will be served by IIPImage server after processing, and the image information will be sent, in JSON format, through an AJAX request by a PHP script (also included). Need a piece of code quickly? As per name you can guess, this tool is a bookmarklet generator: Simply paste your regular JavaScript code, press the button and you’ll get a bookmarklet – ready to be installed on your browser bar. FitText makes font-sizes flexible.