Geekish Stuff

Journal of my Google Tech Talk video views, todays talk:

Scrum et Al: Talk about implementing Scrum on companies. Ken Schwaber co-developed the Agile process, Scrum. He is a founder of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance, and signatory to the Agile Manifesto. Ken has been a software developer for over thirty years. He is an active advocate and evangelist for Agile processes.

This seminar presents the basic framework of Scrum and some of the implementation issues associated with it.

Personal small review: Great talk! Insightful points regarding the most value of scrum for a deliverable project. Scrum is not all perfect, and some discipline from the groups implementing it is required – all these topics are touch in a particularly appealing way. (5 start review. For its content, value and presentation).

I had to make a quick spreadsheet to project my current preferences on which job I would prefer to go, balancing preferences and salary pay on each plate. Instead of opening Excel or even OpenOffice/NeoOffice on my Mac, I have decided to give a shot on Google Spreadsheets.First impression, I was amazingly surprised with a slick and simple interface. Actually the simplicity does not come across on the interactivity which is present all over with Ajax interface and quiet intuitive.Enough praising, lets take a look on some minor bottlenecks I have found:

• I could not copy a formula on a cell for other cells with a drag and drop style.
• Editing a field on Mac OS Firefox, the cursor disappears and I have to find where it is by clicking where I want it. That’s annoying but probably a Firefox issue.

Final thought this time: Google Spreadsheets has robust and solid implementation, with a closer look and feel to people who are used to Excel. It served me well for a simple job, but it can do even more powerful stuff on complex data-sheets.

This is how everything starts…