Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

A Decade of Open Source

DZone chats with Justin Erenkrantz to reflect on the last ten years at Apache and the foundation's continued success. 

JNBridgePro 5.0 Bridges Java and .NET

JNBridge, a provider of interoperability tools between Java and .NET frameworks, announced the newest versions of JNBridge Pro and its JMS adapters. ...

0 replies - 1442 views - 11/09/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Apache President Reflects on the Last 10 Years

Apache's ten year anniversary celebrations wrapped up last week at ApacheCon 2009.  DZone recently got the chance to speak with Justin Erenkrantz, the...

1 replies - 1838 views - 11/09/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Programming Scala: Tackle Multi-Core Complexity on the Java Virtual Machine

When I laid my hands on this book I was delighted to see that it's part of "The Pragmatic Programmers" series. As a developer I have a high respect for books in this series because they...

0 replies - 2318 views - 11/09/09 by gerps in Book Reviews

TDD: Useful When New On a Project

Something which I've noticed over the last few projects that I've worked on is that at the beginning when I don't know very much at all about the code base,...

0 replies - 1531 views - 11/09/09 by markhneedham in Articles

Should Programming Languages Support Unit Testing Natively?

I used to be strongly opposed to this idea but I started changing my mind recently. Here is what happened.  The bad Production and test code can be...

7 replies - 2142 views - 11/09/09 by Cedric Beust in Articles

Progress on Cascade

In spare minutes (and during sessions at ApacheCon), I've been continuing to work on Cascade. It's been a great learning exercise for me, pushing my...

1 replies - 936 views - 11/09/09 by Howard Lewis Ship in Articles

Servlet 3.0 Async API or Atmosphere? A Simple Comparison

One the comments I'm getting about Atmosphere is why should I use the framework instead of waiting for Servlet 3.0 Async API. Well, it simple: much simpler,...

2 replies - 2242 views - 11/09/09 by Jean-Francois Arcand in Articles

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/9

An SAP spokesperson confirmed that the company's CEO Leo Apotheker sent a letter to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison less than two weeks after the EU antitrust probe...

0 replies - 2370 views - 11/09/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/7

The project manager of Jython announced he is quitting his job at Sun.  Frank Wierzbicki helped design Jython, the Java implementation of Python, for five...

0 replies - 2866 views - 11/07/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Has the Motorola Droid 'Force' Hit You?

The buzz surrounding Motorola's Droid, one of the most anticipated handsets to date, reached a deafening peak today.  In an effort to compete with the iPhone,...

5 replies - 3407 views - 11/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Mark Thomas on Apache Tomcat 7

A lot has been happening at Apache recently.  The Subversion project joined the list of Apache projects and the White House has begun using Drupal, which is...

5 replies - 5483 views - 11/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Social Computing: Let the Bots Talk!

With connected devices, JavaScript enabled web sites and the extensibility of the XMPP protocol, we are at the beginning of a new breed of applications that...

0 replies - 1509 views - 11/06/09 by peter.neubauer.... in News

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

“Programmers are craftspeople trained to use a certain set of tools (editors, object managers, version trackers) to generate a certain kind of product...

2 replies - 3373 views - 11/06/09 by DaveMBush in News

What Hadoop is Good At

Hadoop is getting more popular these days. Lets look at what it is good at and what not.The Map/Reduce Programming modelMap/Reduce offers a different...

2 replies - 4442 views - 11/06/09 by riho in Articles

What I Miss in Java

So I finally got some time to sit down and write, after being knee deep in work the past month or two. And without a doubt, I wanted to write about what has...

20 replies - 4833 views - 11/06/09 by shyamseshadri in Articles