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the telerik blogs, May 17, 2012
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So you went to work for the cool company that wooed you with promises of cutting edge technologies and techniques. In the interview, they told you that they are agile and unit test everything. You may...
the telerik blogs, April 18, 2012
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Ive spent my entire career at start-ups. Im use to small. I once worked at a big
table with everyone else employed at the company, resulting in pure bliss. One company
that I started with three other...
InfoWorld: Web services, April 11, 2012
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The phone rings. "We're looking for a path to cloud computing for our enterprise that will reduce risks and cost, but also raise our ability to be flexible and agile," the voice on the phone pleads....
Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), April 3, 2012
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Moving to the cloud can represent a big challenge for many organizations when it comes to reusing existing infrastructure. For applications that drive existing business processes in the organization, ...
the telerik blogs, March 19, 2012
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After a successful TechDays
Hong Kong the week before last, I am off to Bangalore today to speak at Tech
Ed India 2012! Besides the usual running around and talking with customers, partners,
attendee...
The Code Project Latest Articles, March 11, 2012
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Discuss application flexibility of static typing....
the telerik blogs, March 9, 2012
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Agile India 2012 was held at Hotel Le Meridien, Bangalore from Feb 17 19th 2012. The event was organized by the local community - Agile Software Community of India. Telerik is proud to have sponsored...
Steven Smith, February 12, 2012
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Im working on a Kanban Fundamentals course that should go live soon on Pluralsight. One of the topics Im touching on is Cumulative Flow Diagrams, and how these can be used to analyze flow of a p...
Steven Smith, February 8, 2012
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Weve been fans of team rooms and collaborative work environments at NimblePros for some time. In building out our new building, we took care to create several large open spaces to be used as tea...
Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), February 6, 2012
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Another important milestone in my career started three years ago when I joined Tellago. I convinced my friend Jesus to hire me, and I would eventually move to the United States with my family to work ...
Steven Smith, February 2, 2012
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I just finished my DevReach Online presentation, A Whirlwind Tour of Software Development Fundamentals. In this 45-minute talk, I covered what I consider to be fundamental principles, pat...
Steven Smith, February 2, 2012
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I have a client who lists as one of the key challenges with implementing agile practices with their teams as managing to define user stories that are valuable but not too big. This is actually a...
Peter Brombergs UnBlog, January 31, 2012
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The amount of money the federal government takes out of the U.S. economy in taxes will increase by more than 30 percent between 2012 and 2014, according to the Budget and Economic Outlook published to...
ISerializable, November 29, 2011
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This is very short notice, (which is why there is a surprise) - but During December 15-16, Ill be doing my Elastic Leadership Course Lead Better in Stavanger, Norway.
This course is for new and experi...
Code Climber, October 20, 2011
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A few weeks ago I attended the Agile.NET 2011 Europe conference, in Gent. In this post I just want collect some links to the slides of the event, and give some personal comments on the sessions and to...
K. Scott Allen, October 12, 2011
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From Wikipedia: The tragedy of the commons is a dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally consulting their own self-interest, will ...
Code Climber, September 21, 2011
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Last week I registered to the Agile .NET 2011 Europe conference, held in Gent, on 10 - 11 October, and Im really looking forward to it. I think that if you live in Belgium (or near Belgium) and are in...
ISerializable, September 2, 2011
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This September, I will be doing a one day TDD and unit testing class in Lund. The class is it for both people who have never written a unit test before and people who have. The first 10 purchases to u...
Code Climber, August 23, 2011
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Im not a Umbraco expert, actually I never did a real website in Umbraco till now. So being a developer that tries to adopt agile methodologies and tries to remove as much friction as possible I was a ...
ASPAlliance.com - The #1 ASP.NET Community, August 9, 2011
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Agile software development has been and is still growing in popularity within the software industry. The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software is a practical guide to performing agil...
The Code Project Latest Articles, August 2, 2011
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Using IOC/DI and Repository Factory with LightCore...
ISerializable, August 2, 2011
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I'm holding a two day Elastic Team Leadership class in Oslo next week - (right before my 3 day TDD course)
This class is about everything that Agile methodologies do not teach you
Have you ever come a...
ISerializable, July 28, 2011
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Here’s an excerpt from one of the first chapters of a new book about TDD in C# - what’s wrong with the following paragraph and following code?
The reason for the test failure (as s...
ISerializable, July 8, 2011
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during QCon 2011 in London, I gave a talk about the new qualities that team leaders need to make agile succeed. It's a very small fraction of what I cover and coach during my upcoming course.
See the...
Steven Smith, June 24, 2011
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Im adding SpecFlow to an application Im working on so that I can add some acceptance tests that actually exercise the user interface. Ive only spent a couple of hours on it thus far, but I have ...
ASPAlliance.com - The #1 ASP.NET Community, June 14, 2011
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The SOLID acronym describes five object-oriented design principles that, when followed, produce code that is cleaner and more maintainable. The last principle, the Dependency Inversion Principle, sug...
Chad Myers Blog, June 10, 2011
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Im in the middle of writing my last FubuCore series post before I proceed to the FubuMVC series of posts. The post is called Stringification (String-eh-feh-k-shun) and its about using conventions to...
ISerializable, June 9, 2011
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Elad Sofer and Lior Fridman have created Agile Practitioners in Israel group. More details here, and you can sign up for the upcoming event here.
I'm happy to see that people are picking up what ever ...
the telerik blogs, June 1, 2011
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The organizers of the Richmond Code Camp rang in another successful event. Telerik was a sponsor of the event, and the .NET Ninja shirts and Ninja heads were flying all around! I was also...
ISerializable, May 23, 2011
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Here's a new TDD kata that's a bit more advanced than String Calculator, and requires the use of mocks and stubs to complete. I've been using it in the past 10 or so classes I've had with great impres...
Simple Talk, April 14, 2011
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You could argue, as Tony Davis has done, that a database has to be planned in detail beforehand if it is to perform quickly, reliably and securely over time, but software often has the same requiremen...
Simple Talk, April 4, 2011
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When Agile meets 'Big Design', the result can be frustration on both sides. Is it possible for database development to to easily coexist with Agile methodologies for application development? Nick sugg...
Simple Talk, March 31, 2011
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The ideal Agile application developer welcomes changing requirements, even late in development. The DBA or Database Developer doesn't. Why is that?...
Steven Smith, March 30, 2011
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Last weekend I presented at the Cincinnati Day of Agile event on Introducing Pair Programming (see on slideshare). The event was nearly sold out with about 240 people in attendance, a mix of dev...
ISerializable, February 27, 2011
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Israel needs more Agile consultants. I’m serious.
I keep getting asked by small and large companies if I know good agile consultants. And the problem is that I know very little agile related con...
JohnPapa.net, February 25, 2011
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Today I started week 3 of P90X (sounds better than saying Ive only done 2 weeks). I find that the 7th day of the program is always a bit of a downer as I feel like I should be doing more. Day 7 is a b...
JohnPapa.net, February 13, 2011
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I feel pretty awesome. Some of this great feeling has to be from the better eating too. I cut out junk food and cut down my crap snacks to one a day or zero per day. So far the worst thing I eat is a...
ISerializable, February 9, 2011
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In his post one mock per test considered harmful , Phillip suggests that having multiple mocks used could make a more readable specification. he also disagrees with the way I provide some of the...
MS-Joe, November 30, 2010
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As we approach the end of the calendar year its common to reflect on what weve accomplished and focus on what we seek to accomplish in the coming year. I wanted to take the opportunity to share a cou...
Steven Smith, September 30, 2010
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When developing software and working with a build or integration server, there are certain conventions that one should follow when making updates to the shared codebase. Somewhere I picked up th...
Rico Marianis Performance Tidbits, September 28, 2010
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I don’t know that it is possible to write anything like a unitary software system in a way that is truly loosely coupled. It’s not that you can’t make boxes and line...
Mehfuzs WebLog, September 27, 2010
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Today, I happen to find an interesting post on mocking SharePoint context using TypeMock. Being a JustMocker, i thought rather to follow the footsteps and see if can do the same with JustMock. I am no...
Steven Smith, September 9, 2010
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I just finished my DevReach Online presentation, A Whirlwind Tour of Software Development Fundamentals. In this 45-minute talk, I covered what I consider to be fundamental principles, pat...
Tom Hollanders blog, September 8, 2010
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I’ve just come back from Microsoft’s Tech.Ed conferences in Australia and New Zealand, where I presented a session called The role of an architect in an agile team. Thanks to everybody who...
Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), September 1, 2010
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As Jesus mentioned in this post, SO-Aware provides three interfaces for managing the service repository. An OData API in case you want to integrate third applications with the repository. OData is a p...
Jeffrey Palermo, August 24, 2010
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We at Headspring have just posted our Quality Assurance article over at http://blogs.headspring.com. Ill give a summary here of our view of QA. Here are the main points: Move QA before codi...
Telerik News RSS Feed, July 27, 2010
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Integrated suite combining innovative best practices analytics with agile development team tools marks official commercial launch Waltham, MA, July 27, 2010 - Telerik, a leading vendor of development...
Somasegars WebLog, July 20, 2010
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Yesterday we announced the release of Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0, a new process template for Team Foundation Server 2010. The template can be downloaded from the Visual Studio Gallery or ...
Patrik Löwendahls shout, June 17, 2010
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One of the most puzzling emails Eric have received was one claiming that his book really proved that up front design was important. In large this is a miss conception on how modeling happens. A tremen...
Cirrus Minor, June 9, 2010
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I got several interesting comments to “” (both here and on DZone). Some of them said I don’t get the architect “role”, some said I am looking at things from the code level and don’t see the forest for...