How to create a kick-ass product? What I learned from 37Signals’s book - Rework
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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Heuristics for Information Architecture
Great talk from Abby the IA. Fresh style, clearly expressed. Can’t wait for the poster she’s making.
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GraphLint: Creating a Domain Specific Language for Graph Validation
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At the core of the Knewton Adaptive Learning Platform is the course structure that brings all the lessons, concepts, and content into one... more »
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Automate Your DB Releases with TeamCity and Red Gate
Database source control is no longer negotiable. Databases are an essential component of many of the applications we build and to deny... more »
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How to Succeed as an Introvert
Extroverts love, and get, attention. But organizations miss out when they fail to cultivate the contributions of introverts, too. Susan... more »
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Thanks, Jeff
A short post on Jeff Atwood as he steps down from Stack Exchange.
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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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The Essential Git Cheatsheet
Git is a postmodern version control system that offers the familiar capabilities of CVS or Subversion, but doesn’t stop at just matching... 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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QA / Code reviews in the 21st Century
Developers can bicker over silly little things, offend each other and occasionally catch a bug that probably would have being caught in... more »
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The Problems with Unit Testing Frameworks
“Staying healthy requires best practices such as eating right and working out. Similarly, development teams need the right practices in... more »
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Three Pillars of Project Management
This articles discusses the three main pillars of successful project management: knowledge, experience and people skills. These three... more »
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What Level Programmer Are You?
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Everybody's talking about how programming is the skill that we all are going to need. [Except those folks who might feel that most... 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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Optimally parse humongous XML files with vanilla Java
How to parse very large XML files with Java's StAX and JAXB and have good speed, memory consumption and manageable code.
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Differences Between jQuery .bind() vs .live() vs .delegate() vs .on()
I've seen quite a bit of confusion from developers about what the real different is between the .bind(), .live(), .delegate(), and .on()... 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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Dependency Management with .NET - Doing it Right
The problem of dependency management is neither new nor original, it exists in all development platforms, and .NET is no different. In... more »
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Make your process your Rock Star, not individuals
There are variety of problems with relying on Rock Stars: One person can never think of everything. A group will typically make... more »
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Programmatically Add Grouped Product to Cart in Magento
Adding simple products to cart through custom PHP code is pretty straight forward. You just need to call the '$cart-addProduct()'... more »
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