Obie Fernandez "Do The Hustle" - how programmers can sell, negotiate, and deal with clients without headaches
Obie Fernandez shares his experience successfully selling consulting services for both Thoughtworks and Hashrocket to help you with the following... more »
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Stories of Agile Work
These days, most people associate the word "agile" with "software development." However, people are applying the basic ideas of agile methods outside... more »
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Scrum - A Not-so-bad Development Methodology
Recently a small group of us decided to give Scrum a try and are using it to drive our current project. Other than this effort, there is no formal... more »
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Pair programming. What researches say on the costs and benefits of the practice.
Effect of Pair programming on defect rate, quality and costs. Scientifically valid research results only. Not all that rosy.
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An example of bad test, part 1
Let us take a look at this test. When I saw it, the test cried out in pain to me: "Help me, I am so overworked."
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What do you think about using a presentation model for presenting your domain model?
I’m writing a small app for a demonstration purpose. What I have is a domain model where I have a Customer, I also have CustomerRepository.
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Localizing NHibernate: Contextual Parameters
I can't think of a good name for this post, but it is a very cool discovery. First, let us examine the scenario, a customer of mine has bought a... more »
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Qi4j: REST EntityStore and SPARQL EntityFinder = rich client web apps!
From my work on SiteVision I've become quite fond of writing rich clients using applets or JavaWebStart, with Swing, and then connect back to the... more »
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Passenger Brings Rails Apps to Apache
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For many years, Apache has been the de facto standard for Web site and application deployment. The open-source Web server, which was originally... more »
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Dont Fear The Poly Headed Polyglot Monster
Google avoids it by sticking to a limited set of languages. I don't work at Google, so I can't claim to know what their architecture looks like in... more »
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The Ruby Programming Language - Part1
tries to highlight imp points from the book.
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LINQ for NHibernate Examples
Some useful LINQ for NHibernate Examples
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Agile2008: Converting business value into actual money
At Agile2008, Luke Hohmann from Enthiosys talked about converting business value into actual money. Luke said prioritizing the backlog by ROI doesn't... more »
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Introduction to REST
This article is the first of a two part series by Red Hat's Bill Burke. In this article, Bill introduces the basic concepts of REST including RESTful... more »
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Comparing and Manipulating Strings in Ruby
In this second part of a three-part series focusing on strings in Ruby, you will learn how to test two strings to see if they are the same, and more.... more »
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jQuery vs. Prototype: OO JavaScript with or without training wheels
After brushing up on jQuery via a little light reading, I've started to play with the framework in code. I'm demoing a scrolling news ticker and... more »
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65 Excellent jQuery Resources (tutorials,cheat sheets,ebooks,demos,plugins…)
Below, there are 65 Excellent jQuery Resources (tutorials,cheat sheets,ebooks,demos,plugins…). Hope they help.
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jQuery: Animation for Dummies
Apparently, people liked the jQuery AJAX tutorial I wrote a week or two ago; so maybe a follow up into animation would be nice. Animation is... more »
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Scrum-ban Paper Adds Kanban to Scrum
Corey Ladas has written and interesting paper titled Scrum-ban in which he describes how a Scrum team might introduce the lean practice of kanban. He... more »
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Acceptance TDD Explained
Acceptance test-driven development is what helps developers build high-quality software that fulfills the business’s needs as reliably as TDD helps... more »
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REST Questions
My goodness, there’s certainly a lot of REST talk these days. I’m partly responsible; Paul Krill and I had a long talk at OSCON and he chose to pull... more »
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Ruby on Rails 2.2 to be Thread Safe
The actual thread safety won’t really matter much to most people, but it’ll surely look nice on your enterprisey check list of Features Your Framework... more »
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PathTools : Simple Yet Useful Eclipse Plug-in
In this article we develop a simple yet useful Eclipse plug-in PathTools. The plug-in adds the following actions to Eclipse. CopyPath, Explore and... more »
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Scrum/Agile Tools: Quick Look at GreenHopper
This post is exactly a result of a quick look at the GreenHopper SW - an Agile product management plugin for Jira. It is no in-depth review, just my... more »
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