5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 5-17-13
This week: Netflix CIO Mike Kail on redefining IT, the twisted mind of the software tester and promoting Agile in Waterfall culture.
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Hothousing: New Concept or New Word?
Have you heard the term hothousing? Want to know what it is and how to run a session? When do you use this? What's the format like? What... more »
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Leadership in Software Development.
Developers are very logical and analytical. In the world of DiSC, which is a behavior assessment tool, most programmers fall into the D... more »
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So, I Heard You Guys Like Software Comics
We don't exactly have Scott Adams on staff to draw witty satires about office shinanigans, but we always enjoy putting out a few good... more »
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Why Are You Not a Software Engineer?
Extreme Programming (XP) has been around for a long time, but most developers are not following these Agile practices.
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Learn Git Branching
This application is designed to help beginners grasp the powerful concepts behind branching when working with git. We hope you enjoy this... more »
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Serializing in C++ leveraging template metaprogramming
An approach to object serialization using C++ typing information. When the type of an object is known both at sender and receiver side... more »
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Taking One for the Team...the Refactoring of Failure
Allowing for a bank holiday and foreseeable absences, the team's Sprint Planning budget came to around 42 story points. Unfortunately,... more »
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In case of emergency, System.exit
Article covering the System.exit method and why it is advisable to avoid using it unless absolutely necessary.
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Certified Agile: the PMI-ACP Exam
What's the point of PMI's Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification? What's it like to sit for the exam - and what do you need... more »
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Why Most Agile Adoptions Fail
This short video introduces some ideas that will help us map why we can’t get agile going and take effective steps to actually succeed with it.
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Programming :: When to use Interfaces in your application
There are several advantages in utilizing the features of Interfaces in general programming. As you may already know, interfaces define a... more »
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The Ship Show: Does Your Entire Team Have to Git It?
Version control is becoming a ubiquitous part of the “DevOps movement,” and we talk through what level of understanding should be... more »
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The UX Of Prototyping: Low-Fidelity Is The New High-Fidelity
As a User Experience (UX) designer, I spend a lot of time with pen and paper, sketching interfaces, testing ideas, and fleshing out... more »
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Behat: The BDD library for PHP
Behat is an open source Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework for PHP inspired by the Ruby Cucumber BDD framework.
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Is Agile Always Appropriate?
This article describes a recent experience with a software development project trying to adopt the Agile methodology without enough... more »
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Overcoming Self-organization Blocks
We know that self-organization is a critical aspect of every successful Agile and Scrum team and we also know that it takes trust,... more »
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Bad Advice: “Stop Working So Hard”
Would we ever want to live in a world where working harder didn’t amount to anything more, but rather ended up returning you less?
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10 Front-End Development Tools
I saw this list of ten supposedly tools “you can’t live without” and found it lacking; it’s more of a list of IDEs/text editors and... more »
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Estimates in Software Development - New Frontiers.
I think we should embrace estimate distribution and invent new ways to model and use it. We shouldn’t fight it. This will be a war... more »
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How Change Initiatives Damage Organizations and Fail
A simple (and misunderstood) way people think of their change initiative like this: Their organization is just sitting there, ready to... more »
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Open Source Software Helped Obama Win the 2012 Election Campaign
One reason Obama won the 2012 presidential election was his staff’s use of open source. Harper Reed, CTO of Obama for America, tells all.
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Do you really need API Versioning?
If your APIs are successful they will be used in ways you never had foreseen and the data you deliver will be combined with other data in... more »
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Agile, Technical Debt & Resign Patterns: Interview with @ppapapetrou76
An agile enthousiast who seeks excellence in software engineering. This is how Patroklos Papapetrou defines himself. Let’s have a... more »
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10 Resources for Code Review and Other Peer-based Software Quality Assurance Techniques
Code reviews and software inspections have existed for a long time in the software engineering world. They have been however only adopted... more »
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