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Gambling in Software

I want to tell you about a meeting we had a few days ago. It reminded me of “The Jack Story” (which was part of an old stage routine of Danny Thomas many...

0 replies - 769 views - 05/15/13 by Nadav Azaria in Articles

Lean tools: synchronization

In Scrum, XP and any method that employs iterations it is common to have a planning phase at the start of each iteration to decide what to put in it. The set...

0 replies - 4109 views - 04/19/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

PHP UML generation from a live object graph

Sometimes you need to share a design with your colleagues. You can walk him through the code, and explain which classes and interfaces you created, but there...

0 replies - 9488 views - 05/10/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Primitive Obsession

The Primitive Obsession is an anti-pattern well diffused in many different programming languages, especially in the ones supporting object-oriented...

2 replies - 4545 views - 10/28/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Software engineering in the rail system

During my trip to Corropoli for the phpDay 2010 I took six trains to cover a total of 1000 kilometers. During the waiting periods in the train stations, I got...

0 replies - 6931 views - 07/06/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Exclusive Case Study Preview: Estimation as a Tool

This case study is excerpted from the book, Evaluating Project Decisions: Case Studies in Software Engineering, authored by Carol Hoover, Mel Rosso-Llopart and...

0 replies - 8691 views - 02/26/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Articles

The Productive Programmer

0 replies - 10558 views - 08/15/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews