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Mitch Pronschinske05/19/13
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How to Argue About Code

None of us would be very good developers if we never had arguments about The Best Way to Do Things. But I've had enough silly arguments about tabs-versus-spaces to last me the rest of my life. When should we stop arguing and start writing code?

Mitch Pronschinske05/18/13
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Transform Your Agile Process with Kanban Thinking

Large-scale software and systems development involves a complex mix of people, teams, technologies, skills, architectures, and organizational structures that must all interact for projects to reach their goals. However, many organizations struggle to scale up agile approaches for their various programs, products, and services.

Mitch Pronschinske05/17/13
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Stupid Questions and n00bs: 10 Intriguing Things You Should Do

It really doesn’t matter how long you’ve been in this industry or which position you hold, understanding generation n00b and the value it brings should be mandatory for you.

Mitch Pronschinske05/14/13
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Managing Your Teams’ Agile Competency

A model of the predictable stages of agile team competency helps managers and leaders define the benefits they’re getting, determine the benefits they really want, and plan next steps. Join Diana Larsen in an exploration of ways leaders can use the model to analyze and monitor progress of Agile competence in teams.

Mitch Pronschinske05/13/13
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My Mom Told me That Git Doesn't Scale

Did you have a good Mother's Day? This GitHub developer's mom is certainly interesting... Since day one, we've faced an unique engineering problem: making terabytes of Git data always available, either directly or through our website.

Mitch Pronschinske05/13/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 13)

See why Ars Technica thinks that the W3C’s new DRM framework will empower the open web and check out the benchmarking of Dart and Java. Plus a iOS 7 concept design and 7 tips on minion management.

Mitch Pronschinske05/08/13
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Git Going with Distributed Source Control

Many development shops have made the leap from RCS, Perforce, ClearCase, PVCS, CVS, BitKeeper or SourceSafe to the modern Subversion (SVN) version control system.

Mitch Pronschinske05/06/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 7)

Run Ruby in-browser, see 2 views of a chessboard in Python, and find out if video codecs will be written in JavaScript in the future. Plus, take a look at Oculus Rift simulations and learn about Dropbox's first conference.

Mitch Pronschinske05/02/13
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Dependency Inversion Principle in the Wild

The Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) has been around since the early '90s, even so it seems easy to forget in the middle of solving a problem. After a few definitions, I'll present a number of applications of the DIP I've personally used on real projects so you'll have some examples from which to form your own conclusions.

Mitch Pronschinske05/01/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 1)

Get some advice for dealing with burnout or if you find that you don't want to program anymore. Plus some important news about the JS spec "Promises" and a 17 year old girl who won a major hackathon.

Mitch Pronschinske04/26/13
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Lean from the Trenches - Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban

Find out how the Swedish police combined Kanban, Scrum, and XP in a 60-person project. Ward Cunningham called this talk, "Awesome." Now you know it's legit.

Mitch Pronschinske04/25/13
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Future of Testing and Quality

This session will look at the added complexity of Cloud, Open Source and Software Complexity on testing professionals through the lens of 2 years worth of research.

Mitch Pronschinske04/24/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/25)

Ngnix gets a new major release while TechEmpower continues their epic web framework performance benchmarks. Plus, Google's mobile web performance checklist and a tool for rapid drag-and-drop prototyping with twitter bootstrap.

Mitch Pronschinske04/21/13
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What About The Budget In Agile Software Development?

Finishing a project on time and under budget is the whole point of Agile, but the budget can put some tricky constraints on the process.

Mitch Pronschinske04/21/13
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Agile Architecture & Design

In this presentation from JAXConf 2012, ThoughtWorks software architect Neal Ford investigates agile architecture and design, specifically addressing how big up-front architecture and design fail because of the unknown unknowns of a project.