I just received my first print copies of JBoss in Action in the mail!

“nine times out of ten the conversation ends immediately”

A lot of teams have trouble deciding whether a task should be declared as a technical task or a story. The simple answer here is that if a customer can ask for it, it should be a story.
For example, the following should be stories:
- Creating an installer - “As a customer, I want an easier way to install the application”
- Supporting an incremental DB tool (such as Liquibase) - “As a customer, I want an easier way to the application database when upgrading software releases”
- Supporting a new deployment environment …

Peter Johnson and I are doing a promotion for JBoss in Action on JavaRanch. We are officially answering questions related to JBoss and the book from July 1, 2008 - July 4, 2008, but I’ll probably hang out there for a while after in case more questions come in. Feel free to stop by the JavaRanch JBoss Forum if you have any questions.

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As a second-generation Iranian American, who has spent practically no time in Iran, I have found it difficult to learn the Persian language beyond mere kitchen talk. In an effort to improve my vocabulary, I sought out a list of the most common Persian words. I could not find such a list, so I searched for a Persian-language corpus that I could use to produce the list myself.
I came across the Hamshahri Persian Corpus and decided to use it. I ran a word count on the corpus to determine what …