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Daily Dose - Your Passwords Need to be Longer

Due to the increasing performance unlocked by GPUs, password cracking software will soon be able to discover your 7-10 character password without a problem...

1 replies - 27575 views - 08/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Vim Increases Vigor

Two years have passed since the release of Vim 7.2, and today version 7.3 is here with a few improvements, but nothing major.  Vim has remained a consistently...

0 replies - 21073 views - 08/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Continuous Integration for Agile Project Managers (Part 3)

In part 1 of this series, I hopefully provided you with an introduction to Continuous Integration (CI) and an overview of the building blocks of the CI...

0 replies - 2383 views - 08/13/10 by Adam Leggett in News

Workspaces and Product Roadmapping Added to VersionOne's Toolbox

As agile and lean practices evolve and diversify, development tools and systems often need to become more customizable to support a team's unique workflow. ...

0 replies - 4002 views - 08/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - GitHub Hits 1 Million Projects

Source hosting site, GitHub, reached more than one million projects over the weekend, according to their VP of R&D.  Around 60% of projects are full...

2 replies - 14268 views - 07/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Re-Engineering In Agile Development Can Just Be Refactoring

If you talk to a programmer, almost all software sucks, even the programs they wrote a few months ago. This is typically due to changing technology,...

0 replies - 5249 views - 07/21/10 by Robert Diana in Articles

Your Waterfall Project Is Not My IKEA Kitchen

A few years back, when my wife and I still had enough free time to do our home remodeling ourselves, we gutted our kitchen and rebuilt it with...

0 replies - 2643 views - 07/16/10 by Peter Schuh in News

Is 'be the worst' ever limiting?

One of my favourite patterns from Ade Oshineye and Dave Hoover's 'Apprenticeship Patterns' is 'Be the worst' which is described as follows: Surround...

0 replies - 1465 views - 07/08/10 by Mark Needham in News

Due to Confusion with Cruise Control, TWS 'Cruise' Changes Name

There's a new "Go" in town.  Not the programming language Google made, but a "continuous deployment" server from ThoughtWorks Studios that...

0 replies - 2692 views - 06/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Adobe Contributes Puppet Modules for Hadoop

Managing Hadoop servers can be a pain, but Puppet makes it easy.  The open source server config automation software makes the sys-admin's job a breeze, even...

0 replies - 8706 views - 06/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Domain driven design redefined

At the DDD Exchange 2010 mini-conference in London, Eric Evans spoke about emerging themes in the domain driven design community. Six years after the DDD...

1 replies - 5785 views - 06/24/10 by Gojko Adzic in News

Tasktop Pro 1.7 Arrives with Helios

DZone recently spoke with Mylyn founder Mik Kirsten, who told us that today, while the Eclipse platform gets a whole bunch of updates (including updates for...

0 replies - 7303 views - 06/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Should you move to Maven 2?

I’ve seen many a company try to migrate from Ant to Maven with varied success.  There is a change in mindset that has to come about when making the...

12 replies - 7101 views - 06/23/10 by Julian Simpson in News

Evolution of DDD: CQRS and Event Sourcing

Speaking at the DDD exchange conference today, Greg Young said that doing doing domain driven design is impossible with a classic three layer...

1 replies - 7503 views - 06/18/10 by Gojko Adzic in News

Daily Dose - Hibernate and Hibernate Validator Releases

The final release of Hibernate 3.5.3 was delivered today with three main bugfixes.  Hibernate Validator 4.1 CR 1 was also released today.  Validator 4.1 adds...

0 replies - 16530 views - 06/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose