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Why Agile Agile development is popular, but that's no reason to use it. The real question: will agile development make your team more successful? Success is usually defined as delivering on time, under budget, and as specified. That's a flawed definition. Many late projects are huge successes for their organizations, and many on-time projects don't deliver any value. Instead, think in terms of organizational, technical, and personal success. Agile development is no silver bullet, but it is useful. Organizationally, agile delivers value and reduces costs; technically, it highlights excellence and minimal bugs; personally, many find it their preferred way to work. How to be Agile There is no "agile method." "Agile" is a marketing term created to describe a style of working. This style focuses on collaborative work, concrete results, delivering value, and minimizing waste. "Being agile" means working in the agile style. To do so, start with an exi...

Social networking and developer community

Background Over the past few years there has been a spurt in the social networking sites. I have received many request from various friends to join their preferred social networking forum. So far I have joined some of them like Orkut , Twitter , Facebook , Linkedin . Prior to these social networking sites people had to rely on various community sites and user groups. I have been part of ASP.NET community and also some of the yahoo groups and user group like BDotNet . Each of these have their pros and cons. I am just trying to summarize my thoughts about the impact of social networking as it stands today on the developer community. Impact of social networking on developer community As developers we need to constantly keep ourselves updated with various tools and technologies. The rate at which technology stack is getting upgraded is very fast compared to previous 2 decades. I would say people who were developing software in the 80’s and 90’s had very little choice. There were very few p...

Analysing Forms Authentication

Introduction If you've ever used ASP.NET to create a website that requires that users login to view certain pages or to have access to particular features, then you've no doubt examined ASP.NET's forms-based authentication scheme. ASP.NET's forms-based authentication allows you to quickly and easily build a website that authenticates users through a forms-based approach. Namely, to identify themselves, a user will enter their credentials in a Web Form. (Credentials could be anything, really, but for websites they are typically just a username and password. However, some websites require more involved credentials, such as a username, password, and PIN.) After a user enters their credentials, they are "logged in" to the site. The Forms-Based Authentication Workflow Before we begin our dissection of ASP.NET's forms-based authentication, let's take a brief moment to examine the forms-based authentication workflow from both the end user's perspective an...

Take it light :-)

Hi, As usual today also I am done with my all work includes personal work in the morning and project work for whole day upto 8 PM :-(. But still I am feeling fine that it never feels me bad about the work pressure. Only thing I always bother that the self satisfaction not only about the work I do but also each n every moment of the day I spends with other n myself ( Includes once in ablue moon...) . So, i can just say u that, njoy ur day as u want and also as other too wants from u. Never try to abset others by any case but if it happens unfortunately, then take it light :-) guys. Hey am I giving suggesstions ?? ohh.. no guys, its just the feeling that i feel always. Take care.