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I run Snapcast across my house connected to MPD running on a local Linux box, and have been pretty happy with it. I've had to do very little maintenance to keep things running.

The main thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to have multiple Snapcast streams and control which room listens to what. I don't actually think it's possible to do.. (though I could be wrong?)

I'm on a team that started doing Scrum a few months ago, and we're still figuring it out.

To be clear: are you saying that the one team that did Scrum well did so because they spent more time on the process? Reading what you wrote, spending two full days every two weeks to plan sounds, well, terribly dragged out. Does it feel like the time was well spent, or was it a slog?

Yeah, Jira is horrible. Between the workflows, search filters (create one, apply it to a board, but then you can't edit it?) and everything else, it's really clunky to use.

I've done test runs with other tracking software, and I can't really find anything better. Every tool sucks in its own way. Do you have a recommendation on something that you've found that's better than Jira?

Sure. It was a sense of arrogance and inflated ego more than anything else. Just because you went through ten weeks of boot camp doesn't mean that you're a master at your craft. Huge mistakes were made left and right without any sense of responsibility, accountability, or willingness to learn from one's mistakes.

Because developing sites that work only in Chrome is similar to how sites used to be tailored to IE users. If we're all about interoperability and openness, having something that only works for one subset of users isn't all that open.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397158,00.asp is a year old, but its message is still true: "Sure, anyone can make a site that works in Chrome, so it is open in that sense. But if that site only works in Chrome and not in other major browsers, we have a lack of openness in the Web ecosystem."

My employer also uses TriNet. We switched from ADP at the beginning of this year, and it's been a much better experience. They just seem to be more on top of things and can get us actual answers when we have questions. Their website for employees is a little funky, but is much easier to use than ADP.

Until recently at work we've use Symfony1. It's going to end of life at the end of this year, and I think we're going to shy away from Symfony2 for now. It's a bit of a mess, I think, and it seems like they're going to correct a bunch of things in 2.1, but that won't be out for a few months. We'll probably reevaluate after that.

Our other goto framework is Cake. People do have a lot of good/bad things to say about Cake, but I rather like Cake 2. It's a little more mature now, and I don't really think it's as hugely complex as Symfony.

I use Zend on my own, but I'm becoming disillusioned with it. It seems to be overengineered and, after using Doctrine for as long as I have, its modeling leaves a lot to be desired.

Recently I've been researching FuelPHP (http://fuelphp.com/) and it seems to have potential. It's a little better designed than CodeIgniter and its ORM seems interesting.

Hope that helps.

Sorry, but I think I missed something here. First, this article is from last July. Second, it says that it's based on the US law named CALEA. The Wiki article on CALEA says that it covers all VoIP traffic. So.. what's the outrage? That Skype now functions the same way that, say, your VoIP phone service at home does? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just curious what I'm not seeing.