http://www.dzone.com/links/queue/tag/methodology.html DZone: fresh links for developers en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:28:34 GMT The DZone community 2008-07-05T03:28:34Z en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. http://www.dzone.com/links/feed/queue/methodology/rss.xml http://www.dzone.com/images/std/dzone.com_258x55.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/ http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/domain_driven_design_and_development_in_practice_2.html Domain Driven Design (DDD) is about mapping business domain concepts into software artifacts. Most of the writings and articles on this topic have been based on Eric Evans' book "Domain Driven Design", covering the domain modeling and design aspects mainly from a conceptual and design stand-point. This article looks at the guidelines, best practices frameworks and tools that technical leads and architects can use in the implementation effort. frameworks java methodology tools Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:12:48 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92666.html srinipenchikala 2008-07-04T22:12:48Z Domain Driven Design (DDD) is about mapping business domain concepts into software artifacts. Most of the writings and articles on this topic have been based on Eric Evans' book "Domain Driven Design", covering the domain modeling and design aspects mainly from a conceptual and design stand-point. This article looks at the guidelines, best practices frameworks and tools that technical leads and architects can use in the implementation effort.]]> 92666 2008-07-04T22:12:48Z 2 0 6 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92666.jpg srinipenchikala http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/76906.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/scrum_football_analogy.html A summary of the similarities in Agile methodology SCRUM and the American Football sport and the aspects of Scrum and Football that are very analogous in nature. methodology trends Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:00:00 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92665.html srinipenchikala 2008-07-04T22:00:00Z A summary of the similarities in Agile methodology SCRUM and the American Football sport and the aspects of Scrum and Football that are very analogous in nature.]]> 92665 2008-07-04T22:00:00Z 3 0 5 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92665.jpg srinipenchikala http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/76906.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/agile_content_is_the_goal.html It’s suggested that the web has changed everything. Whatever requirements there were for delivering desktop applications, the requirements for delivering web applications has changed. For the web, the thinking goes; delivery of new features to customers is paramount to remain competitive. Maybe it’s true, but what’s the evidence? My own experience with popular web sites does not support this conclusion. methodology reviews Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:20:24 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92615.html mswatcher 2008-07-04T17:20:24Z It’s suggested that the web has changed everything. Whatever requirements there were for delivering desktop applications, the requirements for delivering web applications has changed. For the web, the thinking goes; delivery of new features to customers is paramount to remain competitive. Maybe it’s true, but what’s the evidence? My own experience with popular web sites does not support this conclusion.]]> 92615 2008-07-04T17:20:24Z 2 0 4 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92615.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/test_code_is_first_class_code.html I believe that one of the worst mistake a developer can do when writing Unit Tests is to consider unit test “second class code”, in the end the test code does not goes into production (pay attention to the smell test logic in production) so it does not worth to spend too much time with Test Code. methodology reviews Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:08:33 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92610.html mswatcher 2008-07-04T17:08:33Z I believe that one of the worst mistake a developer can do when writing Unit Tests is to consider unit test “second class code”, in the end the test code does not goes into production (pay attention to the smell test logic in production) so it does not worth to spend too much time with Test Code.]]> 92610 2008-07-04T17:08:33Z 2 0 2 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92610.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/what_is_defensive_programming.html My post on the Null Object pattern has generated some interesting dialog. One of the trends that I have seen is the idea that defensive programming means your code should fail as early as possible. I couldn’t agree less. .net methodology Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:04:24 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92608.html mswatcher 2008-07-04T17:04:24Z My post on the Null Object pattern has generated some interesting dialog. One of the trends that I have seen is the idea that defensive programming means your code should fail as early as possible. I couldn’t agree less.]]> 92608 2008-07-04T17:04:24Z 1 0 9 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92608.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/three_ways_to_bind_a_dropdownlist_with_linq_and_c.html With the latest release of C# ASP .NET 3.5, Visual Studio 2008, and LINQ, there is a whole new way of working with the data layer in C# ASP .NET web applications. Prior to LINQ, many developers would either generate or custom-code a data layer based upon the usage of SqlConnection, SqlCommand, and DataReader objects to manipulate data. .net database methodology other languages Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:33:07 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92596.html mswatcher 2008-07-04T16:33:07Z With the latest release of C# ASP .NET 3.5, Visual Studio 2008, and LINQ, there is a whole new way of working with the data layer in C# ASP .NET web applications. Prior to LINQ, many developers would either generate or custom-code a data layer based upon the usage of SqlConnection, SqlCommand, and DataReader objects to manipulate data.]]> 92596 2008-07-04T16:33:07Z 2 0 0 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92596.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/are_bad_tests_worse_than_no_tests_at_all.html Can you write a test that does more harm than good? In the intro to his upcoming book The Art of Unit Testing, Roy Osherove describes a case where poorly-designed tests actually hurt his team's progress: java methodology Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:40:21 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92530.html jsugrue 2008-07-04T10:40:21Z Can you write a test that does more harm than good? In the intro to his upcoming book The Art of Unit Testing, Roy Osherove describes a case where poorly-designed tests actually hurt his team's progress:]]> 92530 2008-07-04T10:40:21Z 4 0 10 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92530.jpg jsugrue http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/185351.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/six_valuable_phing_build_file_refactorings.html Some weeks months ago I finally got my hands on the ThoughtWorks Anthology and got immediately hooked on one of the featured essays called 'Refactoring Ant Build Files' contributed by Julian Simpson aka the build doctor. After absorbing and studying the provided catalogue of overall 24 refactorings, I spent some time to transform a few health-promoting ones to the Phing universe. So the following post will outline six five basic, but valuable Phing build file refactorings by showing the smelly example first, followed by the scentless one and a closing refactoring description. how-to methodology php tools Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:55:21 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92434.html raphael76 2008-07-03T23:55:21Z Some weeks months ago I finally got my hands on the ThoughtWorks Anthology and got immediately hooked on one of the featured essays called 'Refactoring Ant Build Files' contributed by Julian Simpson aka the build doctor. After absorbing and studying the provided catalogue of overall 24 refactorings, I spent some time to transform a few health-promoting ones to the Phing universe. So the following post will outline six five basic, but valuable Phing build file refactorings by showing the smelly example first, followed by the scentless one and a closing refactoring description.]]> 92434 2008-07-03T23:55:21Z 3 0 10 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92434.jpg raphael76 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/228496.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/scaling_continuous_integration_with_multistage_co.html Continuous Integration has a dark side. When it is combined with the practice of mainline development, especially for a large development effort, it can turn into “Continuous Noise.” In this case, you get notified every 10 minutes or so (depending on how much building and testing is going on) that the build and/or test suite is still failing. Multi-Stage CI can help! how-to methodology Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:52:04 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92433.html damonpoole 2008-07-03T23:52:04Z Continuous Integration has a dark side. When it is combined with the practice of mainline development, especially for a large development effort, it can turn into “Continuous Noise.” In this case, you get notified every 10 minutes or so (depending on how much building and testing is going on) that the build and/or test suite is still failing. Multi-Stage CI can help!]]> 92433 2008-07-03T23:52:04Z 4 0 10 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92433.jpg damonpoole http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/283687.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/ideas_for_testing_zend_framework_apps.html Jani Hartikainen provides are some ideas he was thinking of for making testing Zend Framework (and Doctrine) based apps nice and easy. frameworks methodology opinion php Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:43:10 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92423.html raphael76 2008-07-03T21:43:10Z Jani Hartikainen provides are some ideas he was thinking of for making testing Zend Framework (and Doctrine) based apps nice and easy.]]> 92423 2008-07-03T21:43:10Z 3 0 13 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92423.jpg raphael76 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/228496.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/linq_farm_lambdas.html Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. LINQ has an almost inordinate need for its users to declare a large number of small, simple delegates. The architects of C# decided that forcing the users of LINQ to declare delegates using standard C# 2.0 delegate syntax was an overly verbose option. They wanted to find a shorter, more concise way to accomplish the same task. .net database methodology Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:35:02 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92215.html mswatcher 2008-07-03T05:35:02Z Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. LINQ has an almost inordinate need for its users to declare a large number of small, simple delegates. The architects of C# decided that forcing the users of LINQ to declare delegates using standard C# 2.0 delegate syntax was an overly verbose option. They wanted to find a shorter, more concise way to accomplish the same task.]]> 92215 2008-07-03T05:35:02Z 2 0 11 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92215.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif