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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Fear Causes Us to Build the Wrong Thing
The classic tale of a year-long project finally being delivered only to discover it doesn’t meet the needs of the customer sounds... more »
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Common Logical Questions Asked in a Technical Interview
Well, if you are going for a technical interview in any programming language, in any stream, irrespective of your expertise and... more »
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Automated Testing is Not Agile Testing
Test automation can surely play an important role in an Agile testing strategy, but the ultimate goal has nothing to do with automation,... more »
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How Important is Requirements Traceability? Just Ask the CBOE
When the Chicago Board Options Exchange trading system was knocked out a few weeks ago, investors and customers wanted answers, and they... more »
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Let's Talk ASM - XOR-ing a String
I remember the first time I started programming, I wanted to find a way to encrypt a string in some way. I managed to accomplish that in... more »
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Anonymous MSFT developer admits Linux is faster than Windows
This shouldn't come as any great surprise, but Linux is faster than Windows, and at least one anonymous Microsoft developer is willing to... more »
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Setting up your analytics
The following is a guest post by Peter Reinhardt, co-founder at Segment.io and author at Analytics Academy. He loves startups, math,... more »
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Monitoring Background Jobs in Ruby’s Resque
Let's look at how to get visibility into an important component of any complex system: the messaging queue. Specifically, let’s look at... more »
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Testing Android Apps with Robotium and JBehave
The purpose of the article is to implement a Behavior Driver Development (BDD) infrastructure for Android applications with the JBehave... more »
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Mikado Method – Learn how to eliminate your techical debt
The Mikado Method is a process for surfacing the dependencies in a codebase so that you can systematically eliminate technical debt. The... 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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Stop Avoiding Regular Expressions Damn It
If you develop in Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Javascript (or pretty much any other language with its roots in Unix) and don’t know regular... 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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HTTP as Imagined versus HTTP as Found
On the left is a pristine network diagram. On the right is how most networks look in practice. This isn’t to bemoan the death of cable... 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Estimates in Software Development. New Frontiers.
some food for thought with graphs and visuals about estimates in software development. related to any software development methodology.
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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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