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Development Process: Estimation is futile

Ramiro Rinaudo on Wednesday, February 16, 2011

How much time do you invest in estimating your backlog? Do you really get any value from it? When was the last time you thought about the value it provides you? I can see estimation as a source of problems in many ways.

Implementing Kanban for Sustaining Engineering

Ramiro Rinaudo on Monday, October 11, 2010

I’ve been working at MuleSoft on the Sustaining Engineering team for a few months. In this time I watched how things work and find out what type of challenges we deal everyday have and how we solved them. I watched a great team working long hours to solve customers problems as fast as possible. Our [...]

Debugging your Tomcat Webapp with Eclipse

jasonb on Monday, May 3, 2010

For those of you who develop in Eclipse, and are also running Tomcat as a stand-alone JVM process (the way Tomcat is usually run), it is fairly easy to debug your web applications using the Eclipse debugger. For that matter, you could also debug Tomcat’s code this way as well, if you want to inspect [...]

Including Files Into Tomcat’s server.xml Using XML Entity Includes

jasonb on Thursday, April 29, 2010

Once in a while I get questions about whether Apache Tomcat implements a way to include other files in server.xml, Tomcat’s main configuration file.  The answer is that there is a way to do it, and that Tomcat didn’t have to implement a new feature for it to work.  The way to do it is: [...]

Agile Planning at Mule

Ken Yagen on Friday, September 18, 2009

At MuleSoft we use Agile development to build and deliver all of our software products. One of the more challenging and potentially time consuming part of agile is story estimating. Recently we decided to take a new approach to this that has proven to be a lot of fun and amazingly accurate. I call it [...]