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Agile 2011 - Arlo Belshee - Extreme Programming, Agile Engineering, Big Data and other disruptive behaviors

James Crowley — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:05:47 GMT

I always enjoy talking with Arlo about his open data work and the strange coincidence that he and Ward Cunningham are both working on this problem. He chats about his work with big data, his penchant for starting with XP as the initial set of agile practices for teams to allow tight feedback and.

Continuous Integration Using NuGet And TeamCity

Xavier Decoster — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:33:47 GMT

Xavier Decoster demonstrates how to incorporate the creation and reuse of NuGet Packages into your Continuous Integration build setup using TeamCity

Martin Fowler and Pramod Sadalage on Agile Database Development

James Crowley — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:53:25 GMT

Recording Venue: Skype Guest: Martin Fowler and Pramod Sadalage In this episode, we talk with Pramod Sadalage and Martin Fowler about database evolution and agile database development. We discuss the basic challenges for working with a database in an agile development culture and how to include d.

Evaluating REST Frameworks Part 1: A Maturity Model

William Martinez Pomares — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:19:07 GMT

In the first of this series, William Martinez provides a brief overview of REST and proposes a five level maturity model for use in comparing current frameworks that support the development of systems that should be REST-compliant

Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation

Dorothy Graham, Mark Fewster — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:44:29 GMT

Software test automation has moved beyond a luxury to become a necessity. Applications and systems have grown ever larger and more complex, and manual testing simply cannot keep up. As technology changes, and more organizations move into agile development, testing must adapt—and quickly. Test automation is essential, but poor automation is wasteful—how do you know where your efforts will take you?

Testing In An Agile World: The Heart Of A Developer

Malcolm Anderson — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:55:46 GMT

In this article, Malcolm Anderson looks at the roles of developer and tester in a classic team scenario and how a tester’s role and mindset, as well as a developer’s and manager’s to the tester, must evolve to fit effectively within an agile development team.

.NET Web Developer

Chris Piazza — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:02:01 GMT

We have several spots open for top notch .NET / C# / MVC developers to join our team as we continue to change the face of online recruiting. The base technology set is Microsoft-centric (.NET / C# / SQL Server / MVC)

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:52:49 GMT

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed is the 100% new, 100% practical developer’s guide to Microsoft’s most powerful version of BizTalk Server. Written by an expert team of Microsoft insiders and BizTalk MVPs, it reflects unsurpassed experience with all phases of BizTalk enterprise solutions development, from planning through deployment and administration.The authors begin by introducing BizTalk Server’s architecture and key integration concepts.

Pattern Matching in F# Part 2 : Active Patterns

Jessica Kerr — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:09:28 GMT

In part two of this series, Jessica Kerr looks at creating active patterns. These are functions to transform, recognize, and categorize custom types for use with the F# pattern matcher.

QuickTest Professional Unplugged: 2nd Edition

Tarun Lalwani — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:24:56 GMT

QuickTest Professional Unplugged, the first book written by author Tarun Lalwani and the first ever book on QTP as well, has already turned out a bestseller since its publication in 2009. Tarun Lalwani has won the Best Automation Book award in 2nd ATI Automation honors for the same This book is good for those starting out a career in Testing Automation or even for those with few years of QTP experience. It is the culmination of 3 years of research and effort in this field.

Pattern Matching in F# Part 1 : Out of the Box

Jessica Kerr — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:55:20 GMT

In the first of a two part series, Jessica Kerr examines and demonstrates the powerful built-in pattern matching functionality in F# and reveals there's a lot more to it than a C# switch statement or a regular expression

Leading Agile Developers with Jurgen Appelo

James Crowley — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:30:09 GMT

In this episode Michael interviews Jurgen Appelo on the topic of leading agile developers.

Architecture and Patterns for IT Service Management, Resource Planning, and Governance: Making Shoes for the Cobbler's C

Charles T. Betz — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:21:38 GMT

Information technology supports efficient operations, enterprise integration, and seamless value delivery, yet itself is too often inefficient, un-integrated, and of unclear value. This completely rewritten version of the bestselling Architecture and Patterns for IT Service Management, Resource Planning and Governance retains the original (and still unique) approach: apply the discipline of enterprise architecture to the business of large scale IT management itself.

The Universal Application and You – Pipe Dream to Reality

Paulo Rosado — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:23:59 GMT

Paulo Rosado discusses the concepts of a universal application : one set of application functionality that supports EVERY platform

FEAC Certified Enterprise Architect CEA Study Guide (Certification Press)

Prakash Rao, Dr. Ann Reedy, Beryl Bellman — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:25:37 GMT

The best fully integrated study system availableFilled with practice questions, examples, and illustrations, FEAC Certified Enterprise Architect CEA Study Guide covers what you need to know—and shows you how to prepare—for this challenging exam. *100% complete coverage of all official objectives for the FEAC CEA exam *Modeling techniques for enterprise architecture implementations *Enterprise architecture case study: Richard M. Nixon Airport

Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN Part 2: Controlling Localhost and IIS Express

Yann Trevin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:40:52 GMT

One important aspect of web testing which is not so often discussed in blogs or articles is how to run tests against a web project running in debug mode on the local host. Microsoft provides two options to let you debug web projects locally: the Visual Studio development server and IIS Express. In this second part of our series on writing web integration tests, we’re going to demonstrate how to use the WebTestServer class to start either server from within a running test suite.

David Mertz OSCON 2011 interviews: Steve Chin, OSCON JavaTrack organizer

James Crowley — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:12:17 GMT

Steve Chin is Chief Agile Methodologist with GXS and organizer of the Java track at OSCON. Steve talks about JVM languages, the effect of non-Java JVM languages on the Java ecosystem, and why a Java skillset is now an on-ramp to bleeding-edge platforms.

Automated hardware testing of Surface with Patty the robot

Chris Alexander — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:41:05 GMT

How do you simulate a "whole class of kids" using a Surface?

JD Meier Gets Results the Agile Way

James Crowley — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:05:30 GMT

Carl and Richard talk to JD Meier from Microsoft about leading an agile life. JD talks about how he learned to be effective as a product manager at Microsoft, and how that lead to developing the Agile Life book. It may have a developer undertone, but the Agile Life is aimed at everyone.

University of Sunderland to host .NET Developer Day

Chris Alexander — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:10:08 GMT

DDD events go north