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Story Points Considered Harmful? 1 of 4 - Journey's Start

A long while back, Vasco Duarte, with a little help from Joseph Pelrine started a discussion entitled “Story Points considered harmful.” They, or at least...

0 replies - 2330 views - 03/02/13 by Allan Kelly in Articles

The Stigma of Tech Certifications (and their real value)

Every so often I will receive a résumé from a software engineer that includes a list of technical certifications.  These days most candidates tend to...

0 replies - 2355 views - 03/01/13 by Dave Fecak in Articles

Estimation and Fluency

Martin Fowler recently asked me via email if I thought there might be a relationship between Agile Fluency and how teams approach estimation. This is my...

0 replies - 1962 views - 03/01/13 by James Shore in Articles

Gradle Effective Implementation Guide: Book Review and Giveaway

Until recently, Ant has been my build system of choice: functional, proven and, it just works. So, I was intrigued to see what Gradle could provide instead. So...

7 replies - 2490 views - 03/01/13 by James Sugrue in Articles

The Purpose Of Estimation

My first encounter with agile software development was working with Kent Beck at the dawn of Extreme Programming. One of the things that impressed me about...

0 replies - 5489 views - 02/28/13 by Martin Fowler in Articles

Reimplementing the Wheel

Assuming you’re a programmer, I bet that you’ve heard the phrase reinventing the wheel before. I really think we should stop using it....

2 replies - 1979 views - 02/28/13 by Felix Dahlke in Articles

The Inadequacy of Feedback

Out of date. Removed by author. 

0 replies - 868 views - 02/28/13 by Tobias Mayer in Articles

Java EE 7 Survey Results!

On November 8th, the Java EE EG posted a survey to gather broad community feedback on a number of critical open...

0 replies - 5480 views - 02/27/13 by Reza Rahman in Articles

Dev of the Week: Lorna Mitchell

Every week, we feature a new developer/blogger from the DZone community here and in our newsletter, catching up to find out what they're working on...

0 replies - 2902 views - 02/27/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Review: "Java EE Development with Eclipse" by Deepak Vohra

Jumping around with Java EE development I naturally get the chance to review books in this area. And I really appreciate the chance to do this. Not only to...

0 replies - 2882 views - 02/27/13 by Markus Eisele in Articles

Regular Expressions Cookbook: Book Review

I've never been really good with regular expressions, especially once it gets beyond the basics. But they're unavoidable, and undeniably useful. If you're like...

0 replies - 2210 views - 02/27/13 by James Sugrue in Articles

Threat Protection vs. Threat Detection

The Cloudcast (.net) #75 - Threat Protection vs. Threat Dectection (28:58) Date: February 24, 2013 By: Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely ...

0 replies - 2369 views - 02/26/13 by Brian Gracely in Articles

Where Is Agile Now?

It seems just yesterday I was trying to push forward the idea of developing software in an Agile way, but somehow now it seems like that battle is over. As...

0 replies - 3519 views - 02/26/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

Java Was Not The First To Tout WORA

Charlie Kindel blogs that he thinks James Gosling (and the rest of Sun) screwed us all with Java and it's "Write Once, Run Anywhere" mantra. It's catchy, but...

4 replies - 2212 views - 02/25/13 by Ted Neward in Articles

Dart Refcard Author: Chris Buckett

This week's Refcard is on the upstart web scripting language out of Google, Dart.  Today we have an interview to share with the card's author, Chris...

0 replies - 2873 views - 02/25/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles