Earlier this month I attended the monthly meeting of the Seattle PHP Meetup Group.
In ways I didn’t expect, it was a very interesting meeting. The content
itself was interesting enough (we were talking about database design),
but what I found even more...
1 replies - 12295 views - 01/13/12 by Brian Swan in News
Everyone knows from reading The Mythical Man Month that as you add more people to a software development project you will see diminishing marginal returns.
1 replies - 3552 views - 12/14/11 by Jim Bird in Articles
“A talented employee may join a company because of
its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world class
training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive
he is while there is determined by his relationship with his...
0 replies - 4389 views - 09/10/11 by Esther Derby in News
Dear Reader,
0 replies - 6298 views - 08/16/11 by Cal Evans in News
I was setting up a Continuous Delivery system using Maven as the
build tool, Perforce as the SCM and Go (ThoughtWorks’ CI system). All
was going perfectly well until I got to the point when I no longer
wanted to make snapshot builds…
The idea behind my...
7 replies - 6315 views - 07/07/11 by James Betteley in News
Project Management in a software company. As told through the hit video game - "The Sims"
2 replies - 6063 views - 05/27/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos
The question of why and how git is so flexible is a
really interesting one. Is it a consequence of its having been around
for so long? Or that it was forged, as it were, at the hands of people
who were doing real, large projects (e.g. Linux)? I have argued...
0 replies - 2448 views - 05/26/11 by Rob Williams in Articles
As a developer at DRW, technical debt is
often on your mind. Our front office teams work directly with their
traders (often sitting directly next to them), and are exposed in
real-time to their software needs. While sitting with the traders you
see the...
0 replies - 4742 views - 03/16/11 by Jay Fields in Articles
What is it?
0 replies - 4500 views - 03/03/11 by Dennis Doomen in News
What is it? A formal review of all code and
artifacts related to a requirement or task by another person than the
original developer. Rework because of review comments must be
revalidated afterwards. Why would you do that?
0 replies - 3627 views - 03/02/11 by Dennis Doomen in News
It ain't easy slinging codeOver the course of my more than
twenty years in the software development industry, I've worked with
hundreds if not thousands of developers. Many of the projects I've been
involved with have suffered from the same malady; a...
8 replies - 5568 views - 11/19/10 by Michael Norton in News
We often use Feature Toggle
on my current team (when gradual release isn't possible). My experience
so far has been: gradual release is better than Feature Toggle, and
Feature Toggle is better than Feature Branch.I
found Martin's bliki entry on Feature...
1 replies - 2802 views - 11/01/10 by Jay Fields in Articles
Did you try pair programming but it didn't work? Are you wondering if
it's worth it? Then, this play is for you.In this live play, recorded at Øredev...
0 replies - 6185 views - 07/02/10 by Nitin Bharti in Videos
If everybody on a 100-person project should talk to everybody else, we'd
have to work overtime just to cover the meetings. Of course, this is
before we...
3 replies - 5849 views - 06/11/10 by Nitin Bharti in Videos
The application lifecycle management project, Eclipse Mylyn, has finally added a connector for IBM's Rational Team Concert (RTC). Mylyn already features connectors for ClearCase (revision-control) and an early access ClearQuest (change management) connector...
0 replies - 5762 views - 06/07/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
