10 things you should know about Model Driven Development. An introduction into MDD with some highlights of more advanced topics.

Thoughts about testing in agile projects. What are the effects of acceptance test driven development and behavior driven development?

Designussion bring you a showcase of some awesome design link related lists to follow on twitter.

Churches website have evolved immensely over recent years with the introduction of social media and advancement of web technologies and standards. Most churches has realized that in order to reach out to the world, they could not neglect the importance of the Internet.

I am a big fan of Uncle Bob and I think he is a master of object-oriented programming and architecture. However, in my opinion his Bowling Game kata (solution for the bowling game scoring problem) it's not the right example to explain design via Test-Driven Development.

There are a ton of great articles around that concentrate on nice footer designs, but sadly there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of posts highlighting the amazing work designers are doing with website headers right now.

Ever have one of those days where everything you check into source control is wrong? Also, how exactly is that day is different from any other? But seriously. Code that is visible is code that can be wrong. No surprise there. But did you know that even the code you can't see may be wrong, too?

Here’s a a small problem that one of customers ran into a few days ago: He was playing around with some of the sample code I’ve put out for one of my simple jQuery demos which deals with providing a simple pulse behavior plug-in:

My mother is a psychologist and recently visited me us here in Idaho. We spent some time talking about the psychology behind some agile practices. Pretty cool! Additionally, we ended up on the one mystery topic that has always eaten away at me. That mystery for me is simple: Why does one person or team pursue excellence relentlessly while another hits the door at 5:01 and doesn’t think about software development until tomorrow morning?

Rick Freedman explains why facilitation is a skill every consultant should develop. He also describes how facilitators can help a client team set meeting goals and objectives and understand organizational issues.

During my childhood I was told by many that I was what they called an --- 'introvert'. As far as my side of the story was concerned; I found human beings; hugely complex creatures who were very difficult to understand and establish a connection with. If I can be honest here; it was not the human race that was a problem. I actually liked interacting with other human beings. It was just the first five minutes; the small-talk; the phony smile and the how-are-you-doing or how-is-the-whether-there discussion that I found hugely complicated and pointless.

The hard part about going from one conference to the next is the lack of closure. Not that Oredev was bad and I need closure, but I would like to process it a little bit. This was my third conference in Sweden in the past 2 years, but the first that was in the cool small city of Malmo. Malmo is just across the Oresund Strait from Copenhagen. I took the train from the Copenhagen airport to downtown Malmo and because the train goes under the famous bridge and then through a tunnel, I really had no idea what an amazing trip I was taking.

Just days after the Professional Developer Conference (PDC09) we are organizing an exclusive, and by invitation only, Software Architecture Workshop (SAW) for our managed partners and independent experts. The event will be an intense and interactive one day event that is specifically targeted to address problems and opportunities for ISVs.

Cloud computing management functionality and standards are right now laser-focused on virtual machines, and most APIs focus on that level of the infrastructure. This is because the application is still insulated by its virtualized environment. This means nothing changes for developers. But it could and maybe it should.

After the big success of “25 amazing dual monitor wallpapers” , we decided to select 25 new amazing wallpapers to let everyone with a dual monitor setup to enrich his own desk.

Lately I have tried to provide significant test coverage for projects I work on. My problem is with buzz word fanatics, suits, zealous developers, and tangentially related technical staff who question myself or my team in our decision to not require test first methods as part of our normal development procedure.

Nobody knows for sure what the future of NoSQL will be like, which way the development is most likely to head and who the winners will be, but we can still try and make some predictions.