Agile technology

At present much has been said and written about Agile technology. What are the main components and notions of it? If you want to know about extreme programming, test driven development, scrum and many other related things, you can read the article about Agile key success factors at Oxagile. At least you’ll get the basic knowledge.

Housing market: predictions for the nearest future

If we look at the post- homebuyer tax credit market, we can call it bipolar as, in fact, there are two completely different forces trying to influence it. Nobody (even experts) knows which direction the market will go.

As you may notice, prices for house on sale have risen and are still rising, slowly but they do. At the same time, so do interest rates and repossessions. Moreover, at present the market is oversaturated with millions of foreclosures that have to be sold but were not listed (scientists call it ‘shadow inventory’). It will have a negative impact on a real recovery if they at once appear on the market. For example, the number of houses for sale in Lancaster (California) is great in comparison with the previous year.

What is the forecast? In short term the predictions are negative but there are certain signs that by the end of 2010 the situation will become much positive.

Frameworks for software development: what to choose?

Web development frameworks are great and very useful things that can assist in developing easy to use and user friendly sites and applications. They provide convenient tools for creating and performing general tasks (for example, database access, templates and session management).

Moreover, some of frameworks have certain features for accelerating the process of web development such as Symfony which is considered by many web developers to be the best php framework at present.

Of course, there are many other interesting and worth mentioning frameworks (Zend, CodeIgniter, Django, etc). Every developer tries to find the one that suits his work most of all. But one should try al of them to define that his is the best.

iPhone as a promotional tool

When I was thinking about buying an iPhone, I was thinking first of all about a high quality phone for excellent communication. But now I can’t imagine my life without it. I can’t stop admiring the functionality of iPhones in general and mine in particular – they can do everything (play music and video, take pictures, browse the web, e-mail, etc.).

But at Oxagile site (where, by the way, I found many other useful things) I found the article about new application of iPhones as a promotional tool. That’s cool! Your ads are always with your clients! I guess if some companies make use of this tool, they will gain an excellent promotional tool.