When i was in college , i learnt about Agile development just in theory and i don't really get it . It was supported by the reality that i coded in PHP, i mean no frameworks , object-oriented and procedural are all mixed up and i coded just for fun as long it's working and secure ( yea , i love secure programming ) .

Since i migrated to be a Rails programmer , i saw many new things that i didn't get from my way before. And because there's only a few Rails coder here in Indonesia , i don't have place to ask and share my problems. Thank GOD there's a cool things created by man named "The Internet". I read a lot of Ruby , Rails , TDD/BDD , How to deploy bla..bla . And not just books (pdf) , i also collecting the video casts and slides.

Some names appeared : Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz), 37signals , Heroku , Engine Yard , Github , Pivotal Labs , Hashrocket , Envylabs , DHH , Yehuda Katz , Dave Thomas , Michael Hartl , José Valim , Obie Fernandez , Greg Pollack , Sam Ruby , TextMate , RubyMine and many more.

And what i love from what my condition right now is : "liberated" . And now , i have something like a new culture that i love to be with.

Back to Agile , this methodology is used by most of Rails developer . But it's not a "one size fits all" , they are flexible to the certain condition. These video and slide are presenting about "Agile the Pivotal Way" by Ian McFarland, Principal and VP of Technology for Pivotal Labs.

The video duration is 49:45 and you can download it here in mp4 format : Agile the Pivotal Way

The slide of this presentation can be downloaded here : http://bit.ly/fCIznj

And if you wanna see it here , i embedded the slide from slideshare . Enjoy :)