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I have to blog more often. Richmond Code Camp 3 When: Saturday, April 28 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM Where: ECPI Innsbrook Campus ( map ) Cost: FREE! Lunch provided! What: Code Camp is by developers, and for developers...it's an idea that started in the Eastern...
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NCoverExplorer v1.3.3 released . Jamie Cansdale added a ridiculous number of new features. Great job, Jamie!
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If you're looking for a No Best Practice rant like James Bach, then you won't find it here. Instead, here I will propose the one true best practice I've found, one which I have not been able to change it from being a best practice no matter how much of...
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In the April 2006 issue of CrossTalk, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering (USA), there is an interesting article called Army Simulation Program Balances Agile and Traditional Methods With Success . The authors note that traditional methods are...
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Yahoo! has posted a nice Design Pattern Library : Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We are very happy to be sharing our library with the design and development community. This is our first drop of what we hope to be a monthly release cycle...
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Clipcode has released a GoF Domain Specific Language built using Microsoft's DSL tools for Visual Studio 2005. The currently available snapshot build of Clipcode-GoF-DSL supports the GoF creational patterns (prototype, singleton, builder, abstract factory...
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Mary Poppendieck is working on a new book, Lean Software Development: An Implementation Guide . As the title implies this book shows how to do all the things we learned in the first book . The web site offers rough drafts of as Mary completes them. It...
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Who says Microsoft Project can't be agile? Introducing the Solution Starter: Scrum for Project 2003 . In addition to the standard burn-down charts, it looks to show something similar to an earned-value burn-up chart . Impressive. It's a shame they did...
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A new book is available called Prefactoring *. From the summary: "More often than not, developers will stop a large project in the middle of the build stage to rethink and recode the software design so it's cleaner and more efficient. Known as "refactoring...
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Clarke Ching is starting up an online agile book study group . The first book is Lean Software Development by Mary and Tom Poppendieck. If you're interested, join the Yahoo! AgileBookGroup .
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The Financial Times IT Review has an article called Rapid Results without a Rugby Scrum . Apparently Yahoo! has 15 Scrum teams operating right now, but only in certain situations according to Pete Deemer, vice-president of product development. “We’re...
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Raytheon will now send you the full text of Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management for free. [via Clarke Ching ]
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Some people I talk to have struggled with the usefulness of a dynamic language such as IronPython. To understand why dynamic languages are faster to develop in, let's take a look at how developers design. Robert Glass, in his article The Cognitive View...
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Scott Ambler has a great page that lists 35 modeling artifact types . The page links to summary descriptions of a wide variety of modeling artifacts. Each page describes the artifact, provides an example or two, and provides links to suggested resources...
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My Lean Software Development Overview did a good job talking about the seven lean principles: eliminate waste, amplify learning, decide as late as possible, deliver as fast as possible, empower the team, build integrity in, and see the whole. However...
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