Agile – Does it work as is?

What do the following countries:  China, Egypt, England, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, just to mention a few, have in common? At some point in the past they were superpowers and for some reason or another they let someone else take their place.

If I would have been living in Italy, specifically in Rome 2000 years ago, I would have told the emperor and their citizens that we had to change our ways or we would allow a country to collapse. That is easy said because we have learned about the history of Rome and the many other countries that went through the same experience, yet it has always been a somewhat different situation. Continue reading “Agile – Does it work as is?”

Storage Interface

The requirements for this project call for some type of interface which will allow clients to access storage services in a uniform way. On some occasions the client (e.g., on a smart phone, tablet or desktop) might want to store an object locally while on other occasions the same client might want to store or retrieve the same or other objects using a remote storage system. Continue reading “Storage Interface”