How to create a kick-ass product? What I learned from 37Signals’s book - Rework
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What is the thing that makes your blood boil? Passion for what you build is the most important asset you have. Find it and start, there... more »
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Limiting your abstractions: Reflections on the Interface Segregation Principle
I have found two definitions for ISP (in this post, I assume that you know what ISP is, if you don’t, look at the links below).
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Cost of a bug within a software lifecycle
Thanks to Kristian Köhntopp I was reminded of this chart yesterday about the costs of a bug fix within a software lifecycle. I decided... more »
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Collaboration: At the Extremities of Extreme
Jason Ayers share the observations he made watching a team of developers collaborating in real time on the same code base, pushing XP,... more »
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A stronger testing pyramid
You might know Mike Cohn's testing pyramid. Here is an improved version of this pyramid! Harden the pyramid adding new key information... more »
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The Decorator pattern, or its cousin, in JavaScript
The JavaScript version of Decorator seems different, due to the absence of interfaces. Moreover, using prototypes we can achieve... more »
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Roadmap for Data Virtualization
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This article and How to Evaluate a Data Virtualization Platform provide useful guidance when selecting from several data virtualization... more »
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Starting TeamCity builds from HipChat using Github Hubot
After writing about “Running your TeamCity builds from PowerShell for any Git branch” I’d like to talk about another integration which is... more »
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Who's Responsible for This? Strategies Ops Teams
I’ve been having some discussions about this lately so figured I would write something about the topic. Being a member of an Ops team can... more »
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Practical PHP Refactoring: Convert Procedural Design to Objects
Even in languages where there are no constructs but classes, there is no constraint that can force a programmer into writing... more »
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Two phase release planning
A twitter conversation between Zee Spencer and Ron Jeffries makes me think I’ve never written down my two-phase approach to release planning.
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Encouraging User-Centric Development – But For Which User?
It’s Agile practice to work with users to define an application’s functionality and user interface. But who defines who the user is? All... more »
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Teach Teams to Win AND Fail
Ciske uses an early experience as a development team manager as a springboard into a discussion of her first hire, and how he changed her... more »
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Tool Presentation : Scrum-it
Scrum-it is an open source virtual Scrum board application that supports the entire Scrum project lifecycle.
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Practical PHP Refactoring: Tease Apart Inheritance
We are entering into the final part of this series, on large scale refactorings: this kind of operations is less predictable and less... more »
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Cloud Wars – U.S. Army Using Agile Platform For Cloud Migration
According to CGN (Government Computer News) the U.S. Army’s Architecture Services Division within the Software Engineering Center (SEC)... more »
Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master
A reader asked why the lifecycle in Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 is not Scrum. It’s not Scrum for these reasons
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"Pragmatic Agile"
Dave Rooney suggests some Agile reading for the real-world, non-academic developer. He also reflects on the first and eighth principles... more »
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Agile Software Development: BDD With Spock and Selenium
How to develop a website specification-first using Spock and Selenium WebDriver.
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Perfectly Secure? Quantum Physics and the Cloud
Security remains a critical issue in the cloud. Last week, the U.S. government released its top seven tips for secure cloud adoption... more »
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Ask Ayende: What about the QA env?
I'd be very curious to know how this code got published to a production environment without getting caught. I would have thought this... more »
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We need smarter issue trackers
While issue trackers originate as tools to manage projects more effectively, during the last years of work I have been through some... more »
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Codesion - Subversion or Git? Decisions, decisions ….
Are you facing a difficult choice between version control systems? Are you having trouble sorting out the alternatives? Are you... more »
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Agile with a Little Bit of Lean
I’ve known this for sometime, but I recently came across an article in Forbes where the author, Dan Woods, speaks about the marriage of... more »
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Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Delegation with Inheritance
If you find yourself writing many delegation methods, you may refactor to inheritance to simplify the code. The subclass will inherit... more »
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