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New Wave in Bug Tracking

A breakthrough in the issue and bug-tracking area recently came from JetBrains, a company known for making intelligent productivity tools for developers and...

0 replies - 5128 views - 12/10/10 by Alexander Morozov in Articles

Eating Dogfood: Team City

One of the things I first noticed about Team City is how thoughtful the features were: you can see that a build had failed, and stop it so as to not waste...

0 replies - 4475 views - 12/09/10 by Julian Simpson in News

Boost Your Results with 3 Interpersonal Skills

Pierluigi  Pugliese and Yves Hanoulle gave a great session on Soft Skills Essentials for anyone working in a team (hint: everyone). The session covered...

0 replies - 1204 views - 12/07/10 by Michael Sahota in News

How Jama Software Does 'Socialized' Requirements Management - Releases Contour 3.0

Even if developers are working in the same room together, certain communications can fall through the cracks.  Requirements and other events in the software...

0 replies - 8007 views - 12/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

VisualChannel - Martin Fowler

At the end of the 1990's I made a personal push-back against using slides in presentations, as I was tired by poorly designed bullet-points...

0 replies - 5877 views - 12/06/10 by Martin Fowler in News

The Three "R"s of Clean Code

Establishing Code Quality Standards Mandate via Manual A client of LeanDog was looking for a way to introduce code quality standards to their development...

6 replies - 10332 views - 12/03/10 by Michael Norton in News

The All-in-One Maven, Hudson, Nexus Pro, and m2eclipse Package From Sonatype

A few months ago DZone took a look at Sonatype's Maven Studio tooling.  One of the unique aspects of this open core software was the ability to...

1 replies - 7575 views - 12/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Hudson: Trouble at the mill?

Looks like Oracle and the Hudson developers aren’t getting along. The project hosting that Oracle provide (inherited from Sun) has been a bumpy ride for...

4 replies - 6047 views - 12/01/10 by Julian Simpson in News

Reproducible Build

One of the prevailing assumptions that fans of Continuous Integration have is that builds should be reproducible. By this we mean that at any point you...

0 replies - 3494 views - 12/01/10 by Martin Fowler in News

Grails Gets Some FitNesse Finesse

Erik Pragt, who also wrote DZone's "Getting Started with FitNesse" Refcard, is the author of a new Grails plugin that brings the power of FitNesse...

1 replies - 13623 views - 11/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

New to ASP.NET MVC? Test-Drive Your Way

Short version: Jonathan McCracken has produced a great guided tour of ASP.NET MVC 2, meaning if you’re trying to figure out what everybody’s getting so...

0 replies - 3493 views - 11/18/10 by Ted Neward in News

Retrospectives: My First Time Facilitating

Despite being part of numerous retrospectives over the past few years I don't remember actually facilitating one until my current team's last week. I've...

1 replies - 4174 views - 11/16/10 by Mark Needham in Articles

Daily Dose - WebM Available for 80% of YouTube Daily Videos

According to Google's John Luther, over 80% of daily YouTube videos are now available in WebM: a completely free and open source codec pack for HTML5 video. ...

0 replies - 22661 views - 11/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Rite of Passage or Useless Time Suck?

How do you welcome new employees? Normally, it is a rite of passage that all new developers must search some documentation and struggle with setting up...

2 replies - 4085 views - 11/12/10 by Robert Diana in News

The Devops Triangle

The Agile Triangles was introduced by Jim Highsmith as an antidote to the Iron Triangle. Instead of balancing development between cost, schedule and scope,...

0 replies - 3526 views - 11/11/10 by Israel Gat in News