ColdFusion Trends with Ben Forta

ColdFusion guru Ben Forta discusses the state of ColdFusion, CF adoption trends, and the future of the platform.

Introducing Infinispan: Part I

Part I provides an overview of the capabilities of Infinispan, including usage examples and a tour of the API's.

Secretaries Make the Best ScrumMasters

Okay... so my writing is slowing down again.

0 replies - 4677 views - 09/07/08 by mcottmeyer in News

Agile Project Status Reporting

A little while ago I wrote about agile project management and how agile

0 replies - 3509 views - 09/02/08 by Kelly Waters in News

Code Metrics in Minutes

One of the primary goals of every developer should be to prevent or drastically limit the number of bugs or defects from being introduced in their source code....

4 replies - 7536 views - 09/01/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Agile Development: why it rocks, who it helps, and why it's failing

The Agile method was the best thing that happened to me in my career as a developer. Before I came across Agile, one of my biggest frustrations was the...

3 replies - 3141 views - 08/27/08 by sarajo in News

Create Quiet Time

Yes, this is exactly the second paragraph, Neal Ford writes about in Chapter 3:Focus in his latest book "The Productive Programmer". To quote Neal

6 replies - 2718 views - 08/26/08 by Meera Subbarao in News

Lean Software Development

While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to deliver...

0 replies - 5768 views - 08/26/08 by Jay Fields in News

Reverse-engineer Source Code into UML Diagrams

I have been on several teams where we studiously designed UML diagrams at the beginning of the project. As the project progressed, and deadlines approached,...

50 replies - 34696 views - 08/22/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Incremental Migration

Like any profession, software development has it's share of oft-forgotten activities that are usually ignored but have a habit of biting back at just the...

0 replies - 2043 views - 08/22/08 by martinfowler in News

Agile Project Planning

Projects are a necessary evil :-) But necessary they are.Some people really feel the need to understand precisely what the project will cost and exactly long...

0 replies - 712 views - 08/22/08 by Kelly Waters in News

A Theory of Everything for Software Development

If there's one thing that all software development experts agree on, it's that the other experts are not always right. There are so many points of view in our...

0 replies - 1385 views - 08/21/08 by jurgenappelo in News

Quality Problems Cost Software Companies Up to $22 Million Annually

A new white paper by International Data Corporation (IDC), found existing software quality approaches at most companies are inadequate to address the internal...

7 replies - 2223 views - 08/21/08 by Martin steve in News

I'm thinking of using agile software development - but should I use Lean software development instead?

This question is one I've run into a few times recently. It's not a question I can answer quickly as the question is based on a false premise about the...

0 replies - 1756 views - 08/19/08 by martinfowler in News

Alan Cooper on Agile Interaction Design

Alan Cooper impresses me. He has become the spokesperson for the software development community to me. Alan gave the closing keynote talk at Agile 2008. Alan...

1 replies - 456 views - 08/18/08 by Frank Cohen in Articles

Agile2008: Converting business value into actual money

At Agile2008, Luke Hohmann from Enthiosys talked about converting business value into actual money. Luke

0 replies - 370 views - 08/18/08 by energizr in Articles

The Productive Programmer

Chapter 1 is the introduction, and in it Neal explains what productivity is and why he felt the need to write a book on how to improve it. This is followed by a nifty example of a tip that anyone can...

0 replies - 6016 views - 08/15/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews