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Scrum Guide

The Scrum Guide by Ken Schwaber on ScrumAlliance is a condense (14 pages) and recent (May 2009) pocket guide on the major principles and guidelines of Scrum. It’s also gives very practical advice and tips on concrete issues when implementing Scrum.

Installing HBase on Windows

HBase is a scalable, distributed database built on top of Hadoop. Both projects mainly target *nix environments for production installation. However, for development and testing purposes, one can run a one-node instance on a Windows computer by using Cygwin. This document explains how to properly configure your Windows system to get HBase up and running.