Manuel Klimek

Today, the software development processes are a topic of heated discussion. The whole industry faces a stiff breeze from the agile faction that promises a new course on the quest for high quality software. The agile department on the other hand is confronted with FUD like not having processes at all.
So what are processes in [...]

Agile software development is a fixed point solution to a recursive problem.
When I was a little kid, my mother put me into the local chess club. It took me until today that I realize the impact the training had on me - other than spending my weekends with a bunch of geeks and not [...]

A myriad of new virtual world communities besieges us to join the holy ranks of virtual knights or just lead a shiny new second life if you don't want to cope with the onerous exercise that reality imposes on us humble human beings any more.
Today I encountered a refreshingly new concept: Zweitgeist. The name of [...]

While I didn't get a laptop I'm happy to share my experience with using Windows Vista for two months as main development platform at work.
The first feature that I really like about Vista is:
I can finally work as non-root user!
This is a feature that the Unix world knows for a few decades. So why did [...]