Agile culture at spotify

Here are some interesting vid's showing the development culture at spotify, a very interesting variation of scrum organizing development teams.
I think this could work great for companies continuously improving a product or suite of products. But does this also work work for single independent projects? Perhaps its better to stick with the pre defined scrum practise in those cases.

Unit testing a Spring MVC REST service

Properly testing a Spring MVC based REST service controller is made easy using MockMvc.
Validating the results is made easy using both JsonPath and XmlUnit

Removing files from svn without removing from the file system

Every now and then it happens that I have shared a project to subversion and noticed that while committing a number of files have been added (albeit not yet committed) to subversion.
Excluding these files from the commit only solves that problem temporarily, with the next commit these same files are again presented as changed files.

Removing these files from the local subversion administration is not hard, but each time I find myself searching again for the correct command, so today I decided to spent a blog on it, although the actual content is just a one-liner:

svn rm --keep-local

This will remove the file from subversion but will leave the files on the file system. This is quite useful with IDE files for instance.