Roundup 09 - Managing Technical Debt

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO

• Technical Debt
• http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt
• Paying down technical debt
• http://97-things.near-time.net/wiki/pay-down-your-technical-debt
• http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001230.html
• Evaluating your technical debt
• http://sonar.codehaus.org/evaluate-your-technical-debt-with-sonar/
• http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/The+Continuous+Integration+Game+plugin
• Technical Debt Ledger
• http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2007/06/27/ledger-for-my-technical-debt
• Refactoring
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring
• http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhatIsRefactoring
• http://www.refactoring.com/
• Code Reviews
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_review
• http://www.review-board.org/
• http://www.atlassian.com/software/crucible/
• Continuous Integration
• http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html
• Finding copied and pasted code
• http://pmd.sourceforge.net/cpd.html
• Finding overly complex code
  
• http://www.crap4j.org/
• Finding bugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
• Github
• http://github.com/?gclid=CNe9jMmgmZwCFRBbagodcGxEcw
• Subversion blame and praise
• http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.ref.svn.c.blame.html
• Fisheye
• http://www.atlassian.com/software/fisheye/
• IBM Rational Jazz
• http://jazz.net/

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• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
    written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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