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Mitch Pronschinske02/26/13
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Prepare for a deep, and critical performance review of Chrome along with some highly helpful principles for keeping your software simple. Plus, a huge Azure outage, another Linus Torvalds freakout, and a workplace with no bosses.

Mitch Pronschinske02/25/13
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Shifting to Agile Requirements in a Continuous Delivery Cadence

How do you take the principles of Agile to heart for requirements? Contrary to some beliefs, Agile does not mean no requirements are documented. In this session, we'll discuss practices that engage customers and your engineering team, set you up to respond to change while keeping leadership in the loop.

Mitch Pronschinske02/25/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/25/13)

Learn why it's not James Gosling's fault that we think more about 'write once, run everywhere' instead of the customer. Plus, see the performance numbers of Chrome's LocalStorage DB and get a taste of OpenJDK's new wiki.

Mitch Pronschinske02/25/13
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Web Automation Simplified

Web Application (and any UI) Automation in an agile project can be a fairly daunting and time consuming task. In this talk we will take you through the various problems of web application automation and how small innovations are incorporated in Sahi to solve these problems.

Mitch Pronschinske02/24/13
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The Strengths and Weaknesses of Extreme Programming

Here's a nice short presentation that quickly covers the pros and cons of extreme programming.

Mitch Pronschinske02/22/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/22/13)

The JDK 8 dev preview is pushed back and Riak 1.3 is released. Plus, some uncommon opinions about the Agile Manifesto and Write Once, Run Everywhere.

Mitch Pronschinske02/21/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/21/13)

Hadoop had a new alpha release and a new JDK managing tool for the command line is out. Plus, more war stories from the developer who worked at Blizzard games, and 18 API business models.

Mitch Pronschinske02/21/13
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A Visual Tutorial for Using Scrum and Kanban Together

Scrumban - the application of Kanban principles to Scrum. Get a helpful, in-depth look at how it works.

Mitch Pronschinske02/20/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/20/13)

Find out what our best weapon against CIPSA is, and learn about the Chinese Cyber Espionage that has attacked over 100 companies and governments.

Mitch Pronschinske02/19/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/19/13)

Prepare to be blessed with 40+ interactive design trends along with a sweet map of all the meteor strikes since 2,300 BCE. Plus, the reasons why Chef now uses Erlang and Postgres.

Mitch Pronschinske02/18/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/18/13)

Have a peek at Steve Yegge's 2004 predictions (Wow, were those different times!) and Facebook's "Ginormous Data" operation that 'keeps everything'. Plus Bruce Lawson on the big WebKit switch for Opera, the world's youngest game programmer, and the most annoying homemade gadget.

Mitch Pronschinske02/15/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/15/13)

A new definition for NoSQL, an amazing Java library (but not really), and a new HTML5 mobile game development platform. Plus a 2 year hiatus for the LHC, developer valentines, and flying saucers.

Mitch Pronschinske02/15/13
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Lean Startup Lightning Talk

Watch as David Bland from BigVisible talks Lean Startup in the Enterprise. It's a short 5-minute lightning talk.

Mitch Pronschinske02/14/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/14/13)

Obama signs a cyber security executive order and a Vagrant AWS provider appers. Plus MarkLogic gets a free license and we find out where the term 'Big Data' started.

Mitch Pronschinske02/13/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/13/13)

One developer shop finds a great way to get back at a customer that stole their work. Also an MIHTool that will change your life. Plus news about JavaFX, and an XKCD-style comic maker.