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Evolution of a Search Engine

Posted by jigneshdodiya on February 11th, 2007 filed in SEO, Utilites




Here is the good post on the Evolution of a Search Engine by Philipp Lenssen

read it here

….. Jignesh Dodiya

Flex - 3

Posted by jigneshdodiya on February 11th, 2007 filed in Flex




Here is some more information from some of the Adobe Team members regarding Flex 3.

Is Flex 3 being rushed out?

We are not rushing out Flex 3. The Flex 3 beta has not started and is some time away. Once we have a first public alpha or beta, it will still be a logn while until we ship. What you are seeing is not about us rushing the product, it is about us becoming much more open about what is coming down the road in the future. We started this with Adobe Labs (initially Macromedia Labs) but in this cycle in the next few months you will see up open up more so folks can see the roadmap and give us feedback. Keep in mind, we released the first public alpha of Flash at Max in October 2005. We had a small private alpha underway for a few months
before that. But we didn’t ship Flex 2 until June 27 2006. Just because we are looking for testers and able to demo so features doesn’t mean we are about to ship. It just means we want to give you a view of the product before it is baked so you can give us feedback (and also for your planning). From when we had our first external testers to when we shipped Flex 2 ws almost 12 months. It may not be as long this time because it is not such an major architectural change, but we are going to let the product bake and stay focused on quality.

….. Jignesh Dodiya

Google’s approach on Agile

Posted by jigneshdodiya on February 11th, 2007 filed in Business




Some of interesting points on Google’s approach to Agile:






• There are managers, sort of, but most of them code at least half-time, making them more like tech leads.
• Developers can switch teams and/or projects any time they want, no questions asked; just say the word and the movers will show up the next day to put you in your new office with your new team.
• Google has a philosophy of not ever telling developers what to work on, and they take it pretty seriously.
• Developers are strongly encouraged to spend 20% of their time working on whatever they want, as long as it’s not their main project.
• There aren’t very many meetings. I’d say an average developer attends perhaps 3 meetings a week, including their 1:1 with their lead.
• It’s quiet. Engineers are quietly focused on their work, as individuals or sometimes in little groups or 2 to 5.
• There aren’t Gantt charts or date-task-owner spreadsheets or any other visible project-management artifacts in evidence, not that I’ve ever seen.
• Even during the relatively rare crunch periods, people still go get lunch and dinner, which are (famously) always free and tasty, and they don’t work insane hours unless they want to.

Read the entire article here.

….. Jignesh Dodiya