I’ve had this debate several times with other agile developers and project managers. I find myself staunchly on the side of not tracking actual effort toward tasks on an agile project.
I am assuming a few things when making this point.

The team in question is operating as a self-organized team.
As a self-organized team, the team itself is responsible for making sure its members are motivated and working efficiently.
The team’s members are trustworthy and there is no reason to believe that someone must be micromanaged to ensure they are not wasting their …

I was looking for a tool to format C# source code (add syntax highlighting encode problematic characters, etc) and I found this one. It looks pretty cool, I wish it put a nice box around it or something though…
http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/
This is a pretty good language-independent formatter:
http://formatmysourcecode.blogspot.com/

There is an alternative to offshore software development that provides a lower total cost than traditional development in urban centers but without the communication, logistical, and quality problems of offshore. The alternative is Rural Shoring.
The cost savings is achieved by producing software in development centers outside urban areas utilizing less experienced, part-time talent. The talent could be students from local universities or community colleges, or individuals with potential as software developers who didn’t have the opportunity to go to college at all.
It’s a win-win for the workers, the software organization, …

This is a popular type of post. In fact, I’d bet at least a third of the blogs on the internet have only one post, and I bet they’re titles are very similar to this one (I’ve had at least two others myself). But I really mean it this time! I’m going to try and post every so often about…well…tech and stuff. We’ll see how it goes.