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What Does it Take to Support Solaris?

Java is a cross platform runtime. You write your code on a platform of your choice, test it on a different platform and then push it into...

0 replies - 1464 views - 11/01/12 by Nikita Salnikov... in Articles

Anecdote Driven Development & Science in Software Development

Throughout my work with clients, I have taken on different roles from project to project - I've sat on both sides of the table: I have been in the...

0 replies - 1835 views - 10/31/12 by Wille Faler in Articles

How We're Using Story Points

A couple of weeks ago Joshua Kerievsky wrote a post describing how he and his teams don’t use story points anymore because of the problems they’d had...

0 replies - 1827 views - 10/31/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

How to Solve Unfamiliar Problems

Most of us spend most of our time solving problems in a domain we’re familiar with. I code and writing code is similar across desktops, web, iOS, etc....

1 replies - 2675 views - 10/28/12 by David Pollak in Articles

Carmack on Static Analysis and Functional Purity

In the absence of anything worthwhile of my own to write here at the moment, I thought I’d instead highlight a couple of interesting blog posts...

0 replies - 2004 views - 10/25/12 by Dan Dyer in Articles

Installing And Running Hubot - A Bot for Automation and Fun!

In this post we are going to learn how to install hubot and make it work over XMPP protocol (using an openfire server).  We'll also see how it can...

0 replies - 8668 views - 10/24/12 by Alex Soto in Articles

Maven Tips

I am a bit of a Maven fanboy. Actually I am more of a - use anything available to make your task easier, smoother and more efficient - person....

0 replies - 4435 views - 10/23/12 by Partha Bhattacharjee in Articles

Combining Continuous Delivery Practices with Maven and Jenkins

Earlier this October, I was given the privilege of speaking at JavaOne regarding the fusion of contemporary Continuous Delivery processes and practices...

0 replies - 6574 views - 10/21/12 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

Hot Deploy Still Hell

Whoever coined the phrase Open Sores should get some kind of award, if not one from the Nobel committee, maybe a plaque from the Friar‘s Club. Funny and...

0 replies - 3963 views - 10/17/12 by Rob Williams in Articles

Toward a Test Model

Software is still mostly stuck in the simulation stage. The original Agile book, Kent Beck‘s Extreme Programming was...

0 replies - 1553 views - 10/14/12 by Rob Williams in Articles

Code Inventory and Tracking Releases

You know by now that Code Inventory is something of an obsession with me. Like it or not, most of us, whether developers or sysadmins, work in a service...

0 replies - 5233 views - 10/14/12 by Daniel Ackerson in Articles

Cage Match! Sencha Touch vs. jQuery Mobile

Have you gotten the mandate from the higher-ups to write a cross-platform mobile app and you just don't have time to learn the skills for building native...

11 replies - 51539 views - 10/12/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Using Hudson/Jenkins to Diagnose that Intermittent Failure

I have been working on one of those intermittent bugs that just won't reproduce on my machine; but will reproduce intermittently on other machines while...

0 replies - 3767 views - 10/11/12 by Gerard Davison in Articles

5 Common Automized Software Quality Metrics (with Pros & Cons)

1. Source Lines of Code (SLOC) Counting lines of code is probably the most simple method. It mostly indicates the scale of the software and gives an...

2 replies - 4191 views - 10/09/12 by Cagdas Basaraner in Articles

Find Code Duplicates with Sublime Text

Code duplication is the worst practice ever, right? Well, actually there might be situations where duplicating can be...

0 replies - 3410 views - 10/09/12 by Juri Strumpflohner in Articles