Wow, it's been a really long time since I've last posted on my blog. I have no excuse outside of not really being interested, I've had more projects outside of this site than I know what to do with and frankly I just haven't been willing to invest the time to keep it current. I plan on changing that soon and relaunching jalpino.com with different content, perhaps mostly focused towards finance and the learning experience I've been going through in getting my net worth under check. read more...
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Come Monday I'll be starting the envisioning phase of a 4 month project aimed to enhance the overall user experience in one of our flagship applications. I'm definitely excited about the project not only because there will be some really cool components to build but also because the project will be run using an Agile methodology. For the past several years I've been working on high dollar(long running), complex business apps that followed the Waterfall approach. Each of these projects adhered to the phases of your standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and at times seemed to drag on in the least exciting phases.
Agile development is definitely different than your traditional waterfall based project, not only from a structure point of view (phases and such) but also in it's principles, which are;
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Just about a month ago, I saw this Wired article and had thoughts of jumping off the roof instead of taking the stairs down to my car (figuratively speaking of course).
I couldn't believe what I was reading, Microsoft had just paid $240 million dollars for a 1.6% share of Facebook. Thats just absolutely ridiculous, it places Facebooks's value at $15 billion dollars!?!? Facebook has less than $200 million in annual revenue. How in the world could Microsoft believe that they could valued that much? Even with a 20% increase in annual revenue every year, it would take them 15-16 years before they earned 15 billion. Either Microsoft payed way too much money or we are headed towards another Dot Bomb.
Last night I decided to update the Photo Gallery to look a little nicer and provide an image from my latest galleries. The change wasn't a major overhaul or anything but definitely an improvement from what it was before. I hope in the future to figure a better more interactive way to deliver the few photos that I take...
For some really cool photography, check my buddy Dave's site, Seinberg.net
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