How Do You Refactor Untested Code?
I am currently reading the excellent “Debug It!” book written by Paul Butcher and I wanted to share with you some of the little gems that I have found... more »
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Why all programmers should blog.
There are some obvious reasons why you should start blogging when you are a programmer. Here is a list.
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What Developers Need to Know About Agile
A lot of agile literature is written for managment and driven by consultants. Very little focuses on the impacts agile (especially Scrum) has on... more »
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What Developers Need to Know About Agile
Agile is mostly driven driven by managment and consultants, seldom bottom up by developers. Some developes are suprised about agile and don’t know how... more »
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Why Agile Development Must Be Driven from the Top: 5 Reasons
Agile development is often initiated by the development team itself. Whilst they may find some good advantages, the most profound benefits of agile... more »
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Using Codesion as a hosted subversion platform
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Adam Leggett talks about how he has been using Codesion for their hosted subversion service.
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Visualize Tellurium UI Module at Runtime
Have you ever thought of seeing the actual UIs on the web page under testing? Tellurium 0.7.0 added a cool feature to show this visual effect. The... more »
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Source code evolution visualization: the moving picture metaphor
Software archaeology is here to help you get better at it. Visualization of software evolution is very useful. Gource is a great tool in this... more »
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TDD adapted for mere mortals
I've been teaching and practicing agile for several years and there is definitely a problem with TDD: People find it very difficult to use. I believe... more »
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Compiling Subversion 1.6.9 from source on Debian Lenny (FSFS backend - apache2) bug workaround
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Mark Poole talks about a workaround for a bug when compiling svn 1.6.9 from source on Debian Lenny.
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Conversational Stories
Here's a common misconception about agile methods. It centers on the way user stories are created and flow through the development activity. The... more »
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Windows 7: Bogus ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT error
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Hyrum Wright talks about a recently discovered bug in Windows 7 whereby it reports that a file is corrupted, when in fact it is not...
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Inverting my control
Really nice pattern, and we don't need big toolkits to use it.
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Starting with the Startup - Start Using Scrum
After Scrum has been selected as process and the team have been educated about agile and Scrum we can start with setting up development environment.... more »
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Use a Continuous Integration Server with Hudson
Continuous integration expert Paul Duvall explains how to download, install and configure Hudson and Tomcat, run an HSQL database, run an Ant... more »
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How to Measure Business Performance in Two simple Steps
This is a simple step-by-step approach you can use to plan and build an effective performance dashboard. All illustrated by a small complete example... more »
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Replacing the Iron Triangle of Project Management?
Last year sometime, I heard Jim Highsmith do a talk on replacing the traditional project management iron triangle with a new 'agile triangle' that is... more »
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Test Driven Development with Zend Framework and PHPUnit
Over the past few days I was going through the Zend Framework reference docs and I found myself pleasantly surprised with all that the latest version... more »
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How Agile Works – My Program Manager Cheat Sheet
While cleaning out my office in preparation for my big move to California, I ran across my Agile Program Manager “cheat sheet.” I had to laugh because... more »
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Visual Studio 2010: Test Driven Development
A really nice walk-through tutorial of TDD using Visual Studio 2010's new features. Covers both C# and VB.
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Successful Agile Planning: An Iteration How-To, Part II
Iteration planning occurs on the first day of the iteration. A guiding tenet is -- those who do the work, plan the work -- so it is essential that the... more »
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Pair Programming: An Extremely Agile Practice
Pair Programming. It's probably one of the most extreme practices of eXtreme Programming (XP). It's an area of agile software development that... more »
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Live TDD session - Solving the String Calculator Kata in Groovy
A screencast showing a TDD solution to the StringCalculator Kata in Groovy. This performance illustrates various TDDing techniques such as "Fake it... more »
Keep the Balance - The Scrum Product Owner
This article presents what are the Scrum Product Owner activities and how he has to keep the balance of interests between the Scrum team and the other... more »
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Successful Agile Planning: An Iteration How-To, Part I
Agile development practices, when performed correctly, are lightweight and inexpensive, avoid wasted cycles, and ensure that just the right features... more »
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