Eric Hagan06/16/10
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In this presentation, Gino Marckx introduces the Pomodoro Technique. The Pomodoro Technique is not a methodology, but a simple strategy for achieving personal productivity and a work/life balance.The Pomodoro Technique was created in Italy, where Pomo d'oro...
Gojko Adzic06/16/10
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Udi Dahan spoke today at the DDD Exchange about common
misunderstandings and problems that teams have with implementing Domain
Driven Design. According to Dahan, the domain model pattern seems to be
abused more often than not.
Tiers aren’t...
Mitch Pronschinske06/16/10
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How do I motivate my developers? - is a question you hear all the time from managers who haven't been paying attention to the patterns found in many software development shops. Dan Pink has looked at much of the scientific research behind human...
Alberto Gutierrez06/15/10
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We saw in the
previous article the main differences between
agile and waterfall. In the
following articles we are going to take a deeper look by focusing on the four
main actors in software development: Development, Business, QA, and...
David Bland06/15/10
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Practicing servant leadership as a ScrumMaster requires a great deal
of empathy and patience. This includes suppressing actions that would
otherwise cause harm to team morale and self organization if unchecked.
One trait in particular that is extremely...
Giorgio Sironi06/15/10
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There is a common problem between many testing harnesses: they are different from the real client (in the case of web applications a browser). Zend_Test, HttpUnit and similar tools perform fake HTTP requests (that may go or not go over the TCP/IP stack), and...
Jared Richardson06/14/10
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My technical brethren (and sistren) in the southern United States are probably more familiar with Kudzu than many of you, but it's a very fast growing type of vine. It's reputed to grow a foot a day when in perfect growing conditions. In the southern US, it...
Derek Cheng06/14/10
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Time-to-market and time-to-value in businesses, organizations, and teams have taken center stage as we all strive to improve and automate our processes, and rely heavily on software to do much of our heavy information lifting. After all, what is software,...
David Bland06/14/10
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According to the latest data
from Indeed.com, the annual salary of a ScrumMaster now surpasses
that of a Project Manager.
Even more surprising, is just how quickly the ScrumMaster salaries
have increased in such a short amount of time. As you may...
Nitin Bharti06/11/10
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If everybody on a 100-person project should talk to everybody else, we'd
have to work overtime just to cover the meetings. Of course, this is
before we start making any progress. Less meetings mean more progress.
At the same time, everybody works...
Gojko Adzic06/11/10
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At the Agile testing user group meeting on 4th May 2010, Douglas
Squirrel presented ideas on running effective root cause analysis
that he uses at YouDevise to facilitate continuous improvement. Saying
that reflective practices are more important than...
Jared Richardson06/11/10
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Today's article is a short one, but I wanted to share, as well as vent. This isn't something I've seen recently, but I have seen it. As have many of you.What does it mean to Be Agile? It means you're always learning. It means you're very disciplined, you...
Nitin Bharti06/10/10
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AgilePalooza is an agile community event that will feature 2 tracks: Learning AgilityAdvancing
AgilityYou get a full day of agile education from internationally
recognized Agile coaches, trainers and industry leaders, including:Sanjiv Augustine...
Michael Sahota06/10/10
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I recently attended a ThoughtWorks QTB – Rapid, Reliable Releases
(AKA It’s not making money until its in production) by Rolf Russell and
Andy Duncan. It was a solid presentation around the importance of
managing environments effectively.
I will...
Giorgio Sironi06/10/10
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What is Solr? Lucene, but done right and on steroids. The official definition is:Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting,...
Jared Richardson06/09/10
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One of the classic engineer mistakes is the belief that we can do anything. We understand the basics of electricity, we bend computers to our will, and anything else, well, seriously... how hard could it be? We're Smart.And we are a pretty smart bunch, both...
Allan Kelly06/09/10
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I was Oslo recently teaching a course on Lean Software Development.
When we were organizing this course on of our goals was: Make it
practical. As I was preparing the course material this was at the
front of my mind. But, there is a but.Step back a...
Lyndsey Clevesy06/08/10
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In this presentation, Katia Sullivan talks about agile topics like 'good' and 'bad' cadence as well as the communication gap between business managers and developers/IT. The collaborative aspects of agile are harder for developers to engage in because their...
Dawn Cannan06/08/10
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Filtering through hundreds of resumes can be a daunting task. Some
people use recruiting agencies to help them filter the obvious misses,
some go through all of them manually (I tend to fall into the latter
group). Since I've recently been...
Giorgio Sironi06/08/10
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We'll start in media res, with a pair of quotes:The design viewpoint expresses the logical components and their structural relationships. It also expresses their dynamics in terms of collaborations. The realization viewpoint expresses how the logical and...
Jared Richardson06/07/10
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Test automation is a lot like exercise. If you've not done much of it
lately, it tends to hurt a bit when you start back. If you've never
written tests before, it's going to be just like squats when you first
do a few. You're not going to like it. In...
Mitch Pronschinske06/07/10
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The application lifecycle management project, Eclipse Mylyn, has finally added a connector for IBM's Rational Team Concert (RTC). Mylyn already features connectors for ClearCase (revision-control) and an early access ClearQuest (change management) connector...
Lyndsey Clevesy06/07/10
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Download your free JDBC Best Practices Refcard now! JDBC Best Practices has something for every developer. This DZone
Refcard starts off with JDBC basics including descriptions for each of
the 5 Driver Types. This is followed up with some advanced...
Lyndsey Clevesy06/07/10
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New from Refcardz: JDBC Best Practices This JDBC Best Practices Refcard has something for every developer. It includes JDBC basics, advanced JDBC on Codeless Configuration, Single Sign-on with Kerberos, Debugging and
Logging, and a SQL Quick Reference to...
Martin Harris06/07/10
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On the 18th of May, 2010, the very new tumbler-glass project by Studio
Pragmatists uploaded Tumbler 0.2.1 to Maven. Having recently
written about JBehave I found myself really liking the concept of
behavior driven development. So I decided to write...
