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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.

Mitch Pronschinske04/17/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/17)

Computer dinosaurs still walk the earth. This story, plus a cool Mac Terminal easter egg, a prominent game written in QBASIC, and a Python heart monitor that only needs a webcam.

Mitch Pronschinske04/11/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/12)

A node v. php v. go benchmarking session and some cool CSS and Mac tools make up this link list. Plus GitHub turns 5 and we get a demo of quantum levitation.

Mitch Pronschinske04/07/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/8)

More about asm.js from John Resig and also some amazing benchmarks for comparing a ton of different web frameworks. Plus Rackspace is suing patent trolls and a blogger explores what is really necessary in a programming language.

Mitch Pronschinske04/01/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/2)

An April Fools Roundup, Rackspace acquisitions of NoSQL hosters, and NoSQL benchmarking. Plus the Bitcoin surge and the invisible UI concept.

Mitch Pronschinske03/26/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (3/27)

News about Google's Go and Ruby. Plus, the hoops that job candidates have to jump through and Erlang the Movie II: The Sequel.

Mitch Pronschinske03/23/13
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Getting Stakeholder Buy-in for UX Research Projects

Josh has been creating great technology products for more than 20 years. A UX design leader, Josh has worked in hardware and software, consumer and enterprise, mobile, web, and desktop. He was head of product design at Wall Street innovator Liquidnet, and lead pioneering interaction design teams at Cooper.

Mitch Pronschinske03/19/13
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Agile vs. Fragile

This comic/infographic reminds us of some good examples of the 'agile' responses to certain situations vs. the lazy or 'fragile' response. Be honest, have you noticed yourself falling into the fragile categories of some of these panels?

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/13
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10 Things You Can do to Better Lead Your Agile Team

Agile leadership is different. Agile teams don’t like to be micromanaged, command and control doesn’t work, and yet how many agile projects get bad, or the wrong style of leadership applied to them? It kills projects, demotivates teams, and gives agile a bad name.

Mitch Pronschinske03/11/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2013/3/11)

Learn about Clojure's unsafe reader, WTFM, and a program problem solving parable. Plus, GAE drops Python 2.5 finally.

Mitch Pronschinske03/11/13
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eBay's Open Source, Agile Test Automation Stack

All new features at eBay Europe are developed using SCRUM. One key success factor for those projects is to have a reliable end-to-end test automation safety net.

Mitch Pronschinske03/10/13
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Swift-Kanban Tool Overview

An introduction to the Swift-Kanban tool and the Kanban technique in under 20 minutes.

Mitch Pronschinske03/04/13
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Ted Talk: Agile Programming -- for Your Family

I found a new Ted Talk on agile methodologies applied to family life. I've actually read about many families who do this and I've even met a developer who does this. He used Scrum in his own home. Now this little movement is getting attention in the form of a Ted Talk. Watch it here...

Mitch Pronschinske03/04/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (3/4/13)

A Java 0-day is found in the wild and Raspberry Pi sells 1 million units in 1 year. Plus, speculation about how the ancient Romans could have made a computer.

Mitch Pronschinske02/27/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/27/13)

See a useful developer's guide to images and research on how people hold their smartphones. Plus, new details about Stuxnet and a new release for Django.