Eric Hagan04/27/10
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Paul Julius is an independent consultant who has recently worked with many companies to implement continuous integration at the enterprise level. He also has techniques to measure the effectiveness of CI implementations. One of his favorite metrics is the...
Gunnar Peipman04/27/10
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Agile development expects mind shift and developers are not the only
ones who must be agile. Every chain is as strong as it’s weakest link
and same goes also for development teams. Agile
Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software...
Jared Richardson04/27/10
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Jeff Anderson wrote up his impressions from the extremely successful Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010. Jeff had a pretty good writeup and provides a bit of insight to the conference.It's a brief, but pretty good, writeup. He does more than just cite...
Steven Lott04/27/10
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I can't say enough good things about TDD. But I'll
try.Due to an epic failure to read the
documentation (this,
specifically) I couldn't get our RESTful web services to work in
Apache.The entire application system has
pretty good test coverage. I...
Mike Cottmeyer04/27/10
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Okay... so what if my value stream isn't encapsulated within a single
Scrum team? What do I do then? To some degree, I think it depends on
how much of the value stream is outside the team. If external
dependencies are the exception rather than the...
Lyndsey Clevesy04/26/10
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Get Started with PHP and Flex! New from DZone Refcardz, this free cheat sheet provides a solid Resource for integrating PHP and
Flex to create great applications. You'll learn everything from what Flex is to how to finaly deploy your brand new application....
Jared Richardson04/26/10
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Dr. Williams has been involved with studying and promoting Agile practices for many years. She's once again asking for the community to pitch in and let her know where things stand.Please take a moment and contribute to the survey!Almost 10 years have passed...
Jared Richardson04/26/10
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Code and Coffee is a simple idea. Once a week, get together in the
morning, grab a shot of caffeine, and write some code. Pair with an old
friend or a new one, but come willing to learn.Tim Wingfield, a coworker
of mine, started the code and coffee...
Eric Hagan04/26/10
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JoEllen West says that development shops must conduct thorough regression testing to mitigate the instances where a change to the codebase breaks a feature in the software. Iterative development, Unit testing, automated testing, continuous integration, and...
Eric Hagan04/26/10
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Michael Feathers defines legacy code as "code without tests." There's a major qualitative difference when working on code without tests. Feathers' job is to move software teams from their current process to a test-driven development process. ...
Mike Cottmeyer04/26/10
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In the midst of all the methodology wrangling... I've always felt that
there is a time and a place for Vanilla Scrum. The problem is that most
of the time, folks are giving vanilla Scrum a try when Vanilla Scrum
just isn't a very good fit for their...
Debasish Ghosh04/26/10
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Many times I hear people say that DSL based development often leads to a
situation where you have to manage a mix of code written in various
languages, which are barely interoperable and often need to be
integrated using glues like ScriptEngine that...
Julian Simpson04/23/10
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There’s nothing wrong with Ant.
No, really! True, there’s some nasty Ant files out there. Perhaps
that’s because we often treat our build as a second class citizen. How
do you keep your build files from becoming bloated and hard to maintain?
...
Mitch Pronschinske04/23/10
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A comprehensive survey was recently conducted to to see how organizations today are conducting code reviews, and what challenges they commonly face. The Forrester study, commissioned by Klocwork, looks at the key benefits of code review, the tools that...
Mitch Pronschinske04/22/10
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This week JetBrains unleashed two version updates for its flagship development tools. The releases included IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2, JetBrains' IDE platform, and Team City 5.1, their continuous integration and build server. IntelliJ features Groovy, GWT, and...
Eric Hagan04/22/10
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Jared Richardson says that agile is going mainstream in many areas, but many companies have only made a partial agile transformation which Richardson calls "fragile" or "agile-fall". XP is more focused on what developers should be doing...
Alex Tkachman04/22/10
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MBTE Sweden AB and Groovy++ development team is happy to annonce that Groovy++ goes to Apache 2.0 license.
Sources, documentation, issue tracker, link to discussion group and even build instructions can be found at http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest...
Jurgen Appelo04/22/10
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Like many agile software development evangelists I am somewhat
skeptical toward people taking pride in their certificates. In my
experience, a certificate proves little about a person’s
capabilities, other than that she was at some point in the past
...
Jared Richardson04/22/10
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There are so many tools available today that claim to
magically clean up your code. They slice, they dice, and they magically solve
all your problems. Sadly, as most of us know, writing...
Julian Simpson04/21/10
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In the final installment, I’m going to talk about how to share
configuration between developer level environments on through to
clustered or “stack” type environments.
Recycling Configuration
Ok – so now your configuration is its own standalone...
Jared Richardson04/21/10
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One of biggest problems with the traditional waterfall model is simply it's length. It's a lot more difficult to understand how things went off the tracks when your project lasts for months or years. By the time you realize there's a problem with one part or...
Nitin Bharti04/20/10
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The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities
for those that can thrive with constrained resources. In this
presentation, recorded at Oredev 2009, Eric Ries talks about The Lean
Startup, a practical approach for creating and...
Eric Hagan04/20/10
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Joachim Herschmann is the Director of Product Management at Micro Focus. He works on SilkTest, which is a functional and regression testing product, SilkPerformer, a performance product, and SilkTest Manager for test management. His company has been going...
Jared Richardson04/20/10
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3x5 cards, sometimes Post-It notes, are a mocked, and often ignored, tool. We're an enterprise. We're a real company. We don't use anything as ridiculous as slips of paper! We use enterprise tools. We use databases! By the way, why do we keep having problems...
Martin Fowler04/20/10
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SEMAT (Software Engineering Method
and Theory) is
an effort initiated by Ivar Jacobson, Bertrand Meyer, and Richard
Soley. Its stated aim is to "refound software engineering based on a
solid theory, proven principles and best practices"....
