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An Introduction to Feature-Driven Development

stephenrpalmer — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:58:19 +0000

Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is one of the agile processes not talked or written about very much. Often mentioned in passing in agile software development books and forums, few actually know much about it. However, if you need to apply agile to larger projects and teams, it is worthwhile taking the time to understand FDD a little more

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/20

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:43:04 +0000

A few more details about the closures announcement for Java 7 surfaced today. According to Stephen Colebourne's blog, Mark Reinhold said that JDK 7 closures won't have control-invocation statements as a goal and it won't include non-local returns. Reinhold also indicated that access to non-final variables was unlikely.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:57:25 +0000

It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7. Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference. Before today, Sun could not reach a consensus on the inclusion of closures in JDK 7. Three proposals for closures were submitted to Sun over the last few years and now early reports say the starting point for Java closures will be the FCM v0.5 proposa

Free Tool for Deep AJAX Analysis

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:13:03 +0000

In web development, knowledge is power. Without a decent AJAX diagnostic tool, it's hard to know what's slowing down your site. Even basic performance monitoring tools don't give developers all the information they need. AJAX frameworks are pushing more logic into the browser and becoming more important for running Web 2.0 technologies. For this reason, a sophisticated AJAX diagnostic...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence. That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open source. The TCP/IP stack and cryptography stack are still closed, however, because a third-party owns the software. The .Net Micro framework is a development and execution environment for small devices.

Static Analysis with Klockwork

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:36:13 +0000

Klocwork, a provider of source code analysis tools, just released the Insight Pro suite for agile development projects. Klocwork Insight Pro checks C and C++ code for memory and resource leaks, security vulnerabilities, and buffer overflows. DZone interviewed Klockwork CTO, Gwyn Fisher, to get an in-depth look at Insight Pro and its static analysis engine. Insight Pro includes three tools...

The Benefits of Testable Code

jsugrue — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:25:27 +0000

One of the most beneficial approaches that you can take in software development is to follow a test driven development approach. While we all understand why it's a good thing, it's often left slide in favour of adding functionality to reach deadline, or just to "save" time.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/17

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Mark your calendars! The dates have been set for next year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. Both conferences will take place from June 22nd to the 25th. Register here for a chance to present at either conference.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/16

Mitch Pronschinske — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

A U.S. District Court judge ruled that Psystar's Mac clones infringe on Apple's copyrights. Psystar made the case that it could run the Mac OS X on non-Apple machines. Apparently, Psystar didn't read the Mac OS X end user license agreement, which states that the Mac OS may only be installed on Apple computers.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/14

Mitch Pronschinske — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

If Oracle were to sell MySQL to a third-party, who would it be? Many thought Red Hat was the obvious choice with thier JBoss open source division. Reporters have been asking Florian Mueller for his prediction for quite a while now and he finally answered: Novell. However, Novell was introduced to open source by a loan from IBM, and it seems Oracle is unlikely to spin off MySQL to a friend...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/13

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Can't stand your tiny 30-inch, panoramic monitor? Why not upgrade with the single-slot Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 graphics card? It drives eight monitors, each at 2560 x 1600 pixels. If eight monitors isn't enough, try combining two for a seamless, 16 monitor desktop.

Knowledge Management: It's All About Granularity

sarbogast — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:02:04 +0000

In my pursuit of the ideal collaboration platform, I’ve tested a few knowledge management systems lately: Knowledge Plaza, Seemy, a combination of del.icio.us and References Reference: Knowledge Management: It’s All About Granularity Masoud Kalali

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/12

lyndsey — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Ken Auletta, the author of "Google: The End of The World As We Know It", recently revealed that Google was interested in buying the New York Times. Google co-founder Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt told Auletta that they had discussed the prospect but decided against it because they thought it might undermine Google's neutrality. Auletta said Google was interested in the Times...

An Introduction to Planning Poker

AgileForAll — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:39:07 +0000

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years. It is based on an estimation technique known as Wideband Delphi which was created by the RAND Corporation either in the 1940s or 1968 depending upon which sources you find credible. The technique was refined by James Grenning in 2002. It was made much more popular when it was included in...

Book Giveaway & Exclusive Chapter Download: Agile Coaching

lyndsey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:45:55 +0000

DZone and Pragmatic Bookshelf have partnered to bring you this exclusive chapter from 'Agile Coaching' by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley. This excerpt was extracted from Agile Coaching, published in August 2009 by Pragmatic Bookshelf.