This week, you get not one, but TWO weekly polls. One is displayed as usual, and will give instant results, like normal. It's at the bottom of this page and...
0 replies - 8468 views - 11/08/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles
As far as I know, the bold suggestion of recommending 40 hours
working per week came from the XP community through the practice of Sustainable pace. ...
0 replies - 8998 views - 11/08/12 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles
A few years ago I was asked by one of our customers to help them
make better use of their integration layer. Ever since then me and my
team have been...
0 replies - 4256 views - 11/07/12 by Marco Fränkel in Articles
Lately,
I have been doing some reading on Software Development practices and
came across a software development methodology called SEMAT, which
stands...
0 replies - 6557 views - 11/07/12 by Luis Atencio in Articles
Today's post will target an interesting but quite powerful concept:
packing your application as single, runnable JAR file, also known as one or fat...
4 replies - 5718 views - 11/07/12 by Andriy Redko in Articles
I was a user of NextStep. Not just a user, but a lover. I loved the power of NextStep to create apps. I built Mesa for NextStep… imagine an OS so powerful...
41 replies - 16121 views - 11/07/12 by David Pollak in Articles
Data scientist: the sexiest job of the 21st century. But do we really need a new army of data scientists? Is there an alternative? There might just be --...
0 replies - 3125 views - 11/06/12 by Maarten Ectors in Articles
Twelve months on from my first visit to the UK edition of Droidcon,
I was back in Islington this week for this year’s version. The format
was the same:...
0 replies - 1310 views - 11/06/12 by Dan Dyer in Articles
Kent Beck in his recent post Functional TDD: A Clash of Cultures
summarizes well the key principles and benefits that underlie
test-driven...
0 replies - 2759 views - 11/06/12 by Jakub Holý in Articles
Quite recently in one of my projects I had a situation in which I needed to create an integration test for the application. That's not very odd isn't it?...
0 replies - 1795 views - 11/06/12 by Marcin Grzejszczak in Articles
I spend a lot of time trying to find company logos and a little blurb about what a company does. You'd think in this cloudy API driven world there would...
0 replies - 3253 views - 11/05/12 by Kin Lane in Articles
I’ve spent my last 7 weeks trying to follow Martin Odersky’s Scala courses on the Coursera platform.
In doing so, my intent was to widen my approach on...
1 replies - 4608 views - 11/05/12 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles
Tomorrow is the general election day in the USA. If you've seen any of the debates or the rhetoric leading up to this year's election you've...
1 replies - 32002 views - 11/05/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Use well defined and consistent names for tables and columns (e.g. School, StudentCourse, CourseID ...).Use singular for table names (i.e. use...
7 replies - 15520 views - 11/04/12 by Cagdas Basaraner in Articles
“As a topic of conversation, I find branching policies to be very
interesting”, “Branching is great fun!”, “I wish we could do more
branching”...
4 replies - 7345 views - 11/04/12 by James Betteley in Articles
