13-Nov-2005

Javier Gutiérrez Chamorro (Guti) in Bitácora de Guti posts a link to PNGOUT, a utility that compresses PNG and other files (GIF, BNP, JPG) into a smaller PNG file than other compression utilities. Javier reduced the 189 graphics on his own site from 3.09MB to 2.63MB, a saving of 18%.

Update of SPHPBlog 0.4.6

Javier Gutiérrez Chamorro (Guti) in Bitácora de Guti announces a maintenance release of Simple PHP Blog, a system that is easy to install, works on the server, and uses flat files.

Microsoft praises Scrum

Juan Palacio in Navegapolis posts a link to the Slashdot thread, Microsoft Lauds Scrum, in which it seems that Microsoft has used the Scrum methodology and Extreme Programming to deliver versions of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 tool suite y Biztalk server 2006 integration server.

Faster builds with Ant

victor sosa in vnsjava posts a link to the article, Incremental and fast builds using Ant, which explains how to optimize the build time with Ant. The technique begins to make sense when you take the advice of Martin Fowler in his article, Continuous Integration to produce a fully automated and reproducible build, including testing, that runs many times a day.