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ScruXBan as Execution Tool Within the ALT+F Framework

In my previous post I introduced the <ALT+F> framework. I mentioned how the framework moves withint the MAPE (Measure, Adapt, Plan and...

0 replies - 1711 views - 05/13/13 by Marco Tedone in Articles

Experiences with the book club

Once a week, or anyway at periodical intervals, my whole team participates in a meeting to discuss a chapter of a technical book, or a rather long article,...

0 replies - 3392 views - 02/07/13 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Agile traveling

This post is inspired by The Magic Suitcase article by Francesco Cirillo, on the value on searching the simplest (and lighter) solution over adding weight and...

0 replies - 1053 views - 12/26/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Development of Latex documents

They say learning a new programming language makes you see problems in a new light (if the language are more different than Java and C#). So I take the...

0 replies - 3440 views - 09/24/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Manual Test-Driven Development

Test-Driven Development is a code-level practice, based on running automated tests that are written before the production code they exercise. But practices can...

0 replies - 2583 views - 09/03/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

If You Write An Article About TDD, Make Sure It Is Correct

I spend a majority of my free time reading articles and blog posts, having discussions on Twitter or engaging in conversations on conferences and community...

0 replies - 5588 views - 07/20/12 by Dennis Doomen in Articles

7 Programmer Recruiting Mistakes

We’ve all met them. The programmers that can’t program. They can hardly write anything that compiles on their own. Producing quality quality code is...

4 replies - 24515 views - 06/25/12 by Anders Abel in Articles

The surgery metaphor

As you know in the last months I've been intrigued more and more by metaphors for object-oriented systems, since they brilliantly solve the problem of naming...

0 replies - 2768 views - 05/21/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Learn Three Simple Steps to Scrum Agile Development

I’m going to teach you Scrum Agile Development in three simple steps. This is a special video I created just for Elementool’s clients and the people on...

0 replies - 4042 views - 04/17/12 by Yaron Sinai in Articles

Software versions, the necessary evil

From the dawn of time, versioning of releases has been an arbitrary way to indicate the advancement of software. Version numbers ranging from 1.0 to 2.6.42p23...

0 replies - 3446 views - 04/10/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Bullets for legacy code

The most common legacy code definition is that of a project not covered by automated tests: picture in your mind a big ball of mud, difficult to change or...

1 replies - 8860 views - 03/27/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Test-Driven Emergent Design vs. Analysis

Test-Driven Development has been my main workflow for software development in the last years. Its refinement, which I learn from GOOS is a double cycle applied...

0 replies - 9712 views - 03/15/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

The 7 habits of highly effective developers

The 7 habits of highly effective people is an influential and best-selling book which coined terms such as proactivitiy. I'm a developer by day, so I wondered...

0 replies - 44702 views - 02/21/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Practical PHP Refactoring: Convert Procedural Design to Objects

Even in languages where there are no constructs but classes, there is no constraint that can force a programmer into writing object-oriented code. In many...

0 replies - 5138 views - 02/08/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

What I have learned at DDD Day

DDD Day is an Italian event totally dedicated to Domain-Driven Design, an approach for software development in complex domains such as banking, insurance,...

2 replies - 6528 views - 10/11/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles