08-Dec-2005

Bug in Firefox

Mario Renato Uriarte Amaya in The New Cult of Dead Cow writes that there is a bug in Firefox such that a fragment of Javascript code on a page can cause a growth in the history.dat file which subsequently causes a hang in Firefox on starting up. The solution is to delete the history.dat file and attempt to re-start Firefox. A version of the Javascript code is available on his page if anyone wants to try to reproduce the bug.

Use Cases, Background, Best Practices and Benefits

JorgeBec in Ingenieria de Software posts a link to the document Use Cases: Background, Best Practices and Benefits and provides the following picture of a use case model.

Agile models are techniques, not processes

Juan Palacio in Navegapolis posts a couple of links to the controversy between Randy Miller, process architect for Microsoft Solutions Framework and Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum. Randy posted an article, Agile Software Development for the Entire Project, in which he says that MSF for Agile Software Development is composed of a set of proven practices commonly used to build software at Microsoft. Using MSF eliminates the need to use combinations such as Scrum with XP or RUP. On the other hand, Ken in a an article, Trends in Scrum and Agile, writes that Scrum is not a process and doesn't introduce changes into the way of working: “One has to wonder at the mismatch between large, hierarchical, command and control organizations providing guidance on Agile”. Juan Palacio picks out a principle from the Agile Manifesto: “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”.