A new document from the European Network and Information Security Agency shows the primary risks of cloud computing and a new chart of smartphone requests by OS shows Android is growing significantly in popularity. CA might be getting more popular with a prize offering for developer ideas.

Most roles within scrum are clearly defined: product owners, developers and even testers etc..., but what about the role of scrum master? Without a dedicated project manager stepping into the realm (especially in small teams), this appears to a bit part role that is passed around like 'pass the parcel' hoping to find the most suitable team member fit for the job.

Alan Baljeu was trying to use TDD with his large, legacy C++ code base. He found that the principle of the simplest thing that could possibly work was causing him trouble with the amount of rework.

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A recent polls shows that people are not using more tools for software configuration management, but have stricter procedures. Continuous integration is performed by an important number of companies.

Detailed description of how I'm writing and selling an eBook and building a community for screencasters. I discuss the agile development techniques I'm using, the tools I use and my plans for the future. If you want to write your own eBook then this will give you lots of ideas.

When it comes to generating command-line scripts for Java applications, Maven "appassembler" plugin comes handy. Its "assemble" goal does all the maven magic, i.e. searching the dependencies used for creating the Java application, adding them into the classpath of resultant script and finally copying all relevant jars at a single place. It was all working very nicely until I stumbled across the problem of long classpath in Windows OS.