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Choosing the Correct CI Tool

This is the 3rd post in a series ‘How to get started with CI’ Previously, we talked about choosing the correct infrastructure for your CI system. We...

0 replies - 7008 views - 08/03/11 by Paul Stack in News

BDD & the Holy Grail of User Story Testability & Traceability

The Holy Grail of Requirements has always been traceability, measurability and perhaps most importantly testability. The evolution of requirements has gone...

0 replies - 8339 views - 08/01/11 by Wille Faler in News

Individuals Over People

I've been pondering a few different ideas lately that all center around a common theme: to be maximally effective you need to identify and allow people to...

5 replies - 3577 views - 07/20/11 by Jay Fields in Articles

Continuous Delivery in Practice

A couple of months ago I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Thoughtworks live 2011 event in London. The main topics of this event were agile (as...

0 replies - 3863 views - 07/19/11 by James Betteley in News

How to return default(Type) in runtime – a TDD example in four unit tests

I’ve found this question while going over my old StackOverflow answers:I'm using reflection to loop through a Type's properties and set certain types to...

1 replies - 6373 views - 07/18/11 by Dror Helper in News

Continuous Integration: The Last Mile

Conquering the Last Mile I went to the London C.I. Meetup recently where Gus Power (how he chose a career in I.T. and not as a pro-wrestler with a name like...

2 replies - 8067 views - 07/14/11 by James Betteley in News

Feature Folly

In my executive presentations I spend a fair amount of time on the topic of Do Less, talking about how we waste an incredible amount of time and money...

1 replies - 1228 views - 07/01/11 by Jim Highsmith in News

Frustrations and aspirations of a software craftsman

For a while I've been thinking about what makes me like or dislike a project. Having spent a very big part of my career working for consultancy companies,...

6 replies - 5747 views - 06/29/11 by Sandro Mancuso in Articles

Still getting my head around Continuous Deployment

The arguments in support of Continuous DeploymentIn a webinar on CD, Kent Beck explored a fundamental mismatch between rapid cycling in design and...

1 replies - 7030 views - 06/28/11 by Jim Bird in News

What I like (and don't like) about DevOps

I’ve spent a lot of time in my career working on problems that cross the lines between development and operations. That’s why I am interested in the...

1 replies - 10848 views - 06/24/11 by Jim Bird in News

Getting Started With The Opscode Chef Platform – Configuration Management In The Cloud

In “The Moving Parts of Opscode Chef” there was an interesting discussion about the need of a highly available chef server if you want to use opscode...

0 replies - 3936 views - 06/23/11 by Matthias Marschall in News

Devops - More Than Marketing - Talk By James Turnbull

I’ve just found my notes from James Turnbull’s talk at FOSDEM. I found the talk excellent, and I’m already part of the choir. But much of the...

0 replies - 3985 views - 06/22/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in News

Coding: Tools/Techniques influence the way we work

Dave Astels mentions in his BDD paper that the way we use language influences the way that we write code, quoting the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis “there is a...

0 replies - 7047 views - 06/19/11 by Mark Needham in News

Deployment is the new build (part 3)

Earlier this year, I was invited to present a talk at Devopsdays Boston about deployment as the new build: how deployments are carried out now, how they will...

2 replies - 4810 views - 06/17/11 by Andrew Phillips in Articles

ALM Practices Part 6: Code Analysis & Guidelines

What is it? Coding guidelines, or coding standards if you will, are documents consisting of rules and recommendations on the use of C# in enterprise...

0 replies - 7904 views - 06/16/11 by Dennis Doomen in News