Agile Project Management Tools

What is Agile?

After reviewing the multitude of Agile Tools, Pivotal Tracker appears to meet the requirements.  The online Project Management tool is free for personal, small project management and it completely web based.  Other tools included:

• QuickWick on Github
• APMT for Scrum Open Sourced on CodePlex
• Agile Planner 
• Review site Agile Tools
• Airgile
• Other CodePlex solutions
• The Agile Scout tool review site
• Smartbear
• PlanThatApp

And a tool called Bug Genie for tracking bugs.

Jargon: Iterations Sprints Self-Organizing Scrum Agile Cross-Functional Generative-Rules Daily-Meetings Scrum-Manager Project-Owner Team Backlogs Tasks Iron-Triangle Velocity

Azure

Steve Sanderson gave fabulous presentation on Single Page Applications at TechDays.  Bart Jolling shows how to publish this application to Azure.

I was able to get the Delivery Tracker demo working on Azure after a few tweaks.  I've outlined the details below.  I believe the main problem was that the database gets created on the fly in code.  The Azure version never creates a database and this may be due to the "cluster index" on primary key issue.  Azure SQL requires a "cluster index" and the Delivery Tracker doesn't create one.

Issues to overcome:

• System.Net.Http version problem on my development system
• Get code working locally on the development system
• Preparation on Azure - create empty web site with database
• Change the Firewall settings on Azure to allow MMSM access
• Database is created in code, which did not work on Azure
• Connect to the Azure database in MMSM using server name and user account
• Export database from development to Azure will fail with Cluster Index error
• Primary Key needs a Cluster Index for Azure using MMSM script
• Download the proper publishing profile after all this is done
• Use "Publish to Azure"  in Visual Studio and load Azure profile

Node.JS

Jesse Liberty Podcast @JesseLiberty with Glenn Block @gblock on Node.js

Video from Microsoft Channel 9



What Node.js brings to the JavaScript table:

• Servers
• Asynchronous
• Small footprint
• Large 3rd party support

Azure

Jesse Liberty

Cloud Cover

Media Temple

WordPress with PHP and MySQL

Create New Azure Website http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/

F# Resources

A Language out of Microsoft Research, Cambridge and the MSR F# team, led by Don Syme.

You can Try F# to get the feel for the language.

Follow Don Syme's Blog and F# News Blog

FPish has a community

Work with the Math.NET library (here on NuGet) by Getting Started with Math.Net and F#

Data Analysis

Info Graphics