What? You’re doing TDD!
I’ve always been distrustful by default with the “main way of thinking”. Which doesn’t mean that I systematically reject the opinion of the majority.... more »
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Future of E-commerce, Headless Web Apps via Paypal Adaptive Payments ?
an introduction to Adaptive Payments one of the new APIs from Paypal concentrating on Split and Chained Payments as well as why they may well totally... more »
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C++ Namespaces
A namespace is basically a container for a group of variables/functions etc. I can pretty much guarantee everyone reading this tutorial has already... more »
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Intel Parallel Universe launched
Intel Parallel Universe, a free cloud-based application scalability testing service, launched today. One of the key challenges faced in multicore... more »
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Your Investment in Enterprise Software - Guidelines to CIOs and CFOs
The grand total of license fees, customer support fees and professional services fees over a 5 year period should not be higher than 3X license fees.... more »
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Free Project Management Training: 5 courses based on IBM's best-practices processes & tools
Now, you can learn more about the difference that IBM's project management curriculum makes with five free courses based on IBM's best-practices... more »
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PowerMock
PowerMock lets you mock static methods, remove static initializers, allow mocking without dependency injection and much much more. And it works just... more »
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Case Study: Migrating a Java Web App to Groovy and TDD
In this post, I will touch on the steps I took to migrate the nofluffjuststuff.com code base to Groovy. Next to quitting a job that sucks, migrating... more »
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Part 2: Using structured patterns as a basis for high-level parallel programming: selection
Selection chooses the results from one of two alternative tasks based on a condition. This can be used for speculative parallel execution, where both... more »
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Refactoring vs. Rewrite
rewrite or refactor - the listing of pro's and cons for either option with some well-thought conclusions from product owner's standpoint.
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Architecture versus Code
In a recent interview, Grady Booch responded to a question regarding people that are skeptical about overblown architectures with a very succinct and... more »
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We need a language for programmers
I don’t understand why the need to compile fast is such a big deal. If your programming language makes you write so much code that it takes more than... more »
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The High Cost of Losing a Developer
You've probably heard statistics about the "high cost of losing a customer." The theory is simple and true (fact?): keeping existing customers and... more »
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Quick Agile Links
Quick Links this week include: Notes on Jerry Weinberg, New Scrum Alliance mailing list, The Agile Airplane Factory game.
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Multifarious - The Scrum Master
Those who want to use the model of Scrum successfully should first take a closer look at the description of the three roles and not mistake the Scrum... more »
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How to rescue failing software projects: Toyota Way
What should you do if your projects are failing? Can you do something that will make your projects better every day... for a long time? This post uses... more »
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Surviving Without Random Lies In The World Software Development.
If you are a programmer or even remotely associated with the world of software development; you have probably seen an entire team; built and function... more »
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Architecting a Software System
Software architecting represents the activities of defining, documenting, maintaining, improving, and certifying proper implementation of an... more »
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Knowledge Management: It's All About Granularity
In my pursuit of the ideal collaboration platform, I’ve tested a few knowledge management systems lately: Knowledge Plaza, Seemy, a combination of... more »
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Why Becoming a Cloud Software Developer Can Be a Good Idea
Everyone knows that the longevity and ultimate success of a platform lies in the developers willing to create on that platform. Creating a healthy... more »
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Trying Out Personal Kanban (Or At Least My Interpretation Of It)
One of the biggest things I struggle with is a way to manage what I need to do. I do a pretty good job of that at work, but in my personal life,... more »
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An Introduction to Planning Poker
Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years. It is based on an estimation technique known as... more »
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You say Tomato, I say Pomodoro
An practical introduction to implementing the time management system known as "The Pomodoro Technique".
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Microsoft adapts SDL to agile development
Microsoft has announced that it is evolving its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process to accommodate agile development, but experts stress that... more »
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Summary of all the MIT Introduction to Algorithms lectures
As you all may know, I watched and posted my lecture notes of the whole MIT Introduction to Algorithms course. In this post I want to summarize all... more »
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