http://www.dzone.com/news/current en http://www.dzone.com/news/agile-development-why-it-rocks The Agile method was the best thing that happened to me in my career as a developer. Before I came across Agile, one of my biggest frustrations was the difficulty I had with getting large assignments and breaking them down in little pieces. Usually, in the beginning, I'd be at full steam, really motivated, really excited, and rearing to go. This would last for a little while then the... http://www.dzone.com/news/agile-development-why-it-rocks#comments .NET & Windows agile development process project success Agile http://www.dzone.com/crss/node/4749 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:34:58 -0400 588 1 sarajo http://www.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-287218.jpg Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:34:58 -0400 sarajo 4749 at http://www.dzone.com http://www.dzone.com/news/lean-software-development While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to deliver software.Stories http://www.dzone.com/news/lean-software-development#comments agile development lean development process Project Mgmt. Agile http://www.dzone.com/crss/node/4715 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:25:11 -0400 1818 0 jaycfields http://www.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-246163.jpg Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:25:11 -0400 jaycfields 4715 at http://www.dzone.com http://www.dzone.com/news/incremental-migration Like any profession, software development has it's share of oft-forgotten activities that are usually ignored but have a habit of biting back at just the wrong moment. One of these is data migration.Most new software projects involve data that's lived somewhere else and now needs to be moved into the new system once it's live. A system replacement might have to move all the old data, new ... http://www.dzone.com/news/incremental-migration#comments agile Data migration Deployment Opinions Build Automation Agile http://www.dzone.com/crss/node/4658 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:10:00 -0400 143 0 martinfowler http://www.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-323432.jpg Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:10:00 -0400 martinfowler 4658 at http://www.dzone.com http://www.dzone.com/news/why-database-a-service-a-bad-i Microsoft recently released SP1 for .NET. Database service SOA Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:04:25 -0400 3804 0 arnonrgo http://www.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-290666.jpg Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:04:25 -0400 arnonrgo 4556 at http://www.dzone.com http://www.dzone.com/news/evolving-architectures-archite Retrospectives, every "agile" team does retrospectives.What are retrospectives anyway?A retrospective is a meeting where the team takes a look and inspect the past, in order to adapt and improve the future.Agile or not, our team does a retrospective at the end of each iteration (every two weeks in our case). We try to look at what worked, what didn't , how we are meeting our goals etc,... http://www.dzone.com/news/evolving-architectures-archite#comments Architecture agile project management REST SOA SOA Patterns Software Architecture Agile http://www.dzone.com/crss/node/4488 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:21:08 -0400 1405 1 arnonrgo http://www.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-290666.jpg Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:21:08 -0400 arnonrgo 4488 at http://www.dzone.com http://www.dzone.com/news/bpmn-bpel-going-battle-with-on I have been looking at business process modeling and I am a bit puzzled about the connections between the different goals (strategy support, process documentation, automated execution….), audiences (LOB, business analysts, developers…) and tools (process editor, registry, simulation bench, IDE…). I see how it would be nice for all these to play well together. What I don’t quite see is... http://www.dzone.com/news/bpmn-bpel-going-battle-with-on#comments BPEL BPMN Business process SOA http://www.dzone.com/crss/node/4420 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:02:24 -0400 1123 2 vambenepe http://www.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-303460.jpg Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:02:24 -0400 vambenepe 4420 at http://www.dzone.com http://www.dzone.com/news/animotocom-no-infrastructure-f I have nothing against Animoto. From what I know about them (mostly from John’s podcast with Brad Jefferson) they built their system, using EC2, in a very smart way. http://www.dzone.com/news/animotocom-no-infrastructure-f#comments Amazon Business CMDB Federation Everything Management integration Specs Tech Utility computing http://www.dzone.com/crss/node/4150 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:33:08 -0400 1298 1 vambenepe http://www.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-303460.jpg Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:33:08 -0400 vambenepe 4150 at http://www.dzone.com http://www.dzone.com/news/running-modrails-leopard-osx-1 From the command line:gem install passengersudo passenger-install-apache2-moduleThe Apache 2 module was successfully installed. Please edit your Apache configuration file, and add these lines: http://www.dzone.com/news/running-modrails-leopard-osx-1#comments Ruby ruby on rails http://www.dzone.com/crss/node/3916 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:56:23 -0400 826 2 danielwanja http://www.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-294683.jpg Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:56:23 -0400 danielwanja 3916 at http://www.dzone.com http://www.dzone.com/news/java-and-mocking I've just spent my first three days on a project in Leeds. It's a pretty common Java project, RESTful services and some MVC screens. We have been using Mockito for testing which is a first for me. My immediate impression is quite good. It's a nice tool and it allows some very clean testing of stuff that generally becomes quite messy. One of the things I like is how it uses generics and the static... http://www.dzone.com/news/java-and-mocking#comments java JRuby Ruby http://www.dzone.com/crss/node/3915 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:38:13 -0400 3491 4 olabini http://www.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-287154.jpg Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:38:13 -0400 olabini 3915 at http://www.dzone.com http://www.dzone.com/news/bbc-dumps-microsoft-for-adobe- The BBC has been using Microsoft technologies for widgets that are used by "hundreds of thousands of users". And they have just publicly stated that they have dumped the Microsoft solution for an Adobe AIR one. paidContent has posted details, too. http://www.dzone.com/news/bbc-dumps-microsoft-for-adobe-#comments air flex http://www.dzone.com/crss/node/3872 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:05:36 -0400 856 0 BenForta http://www.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-299809.gif Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:05:36 -0400 BenForta 3872 at http://www.dzone.com http://www.dzone.com/news/flash-content-is-now-searchabl Adobe has announced new technologies that will allow SWF content to be indexed and searchable, not just text in the SWF, but also data generated programmatically and at runtime. Lots of good info in the SWF Searchability FAQ. Google is the first to leverage this new ability, and some great Google-centric context can be found on the Google Webmaster Central http://www.dzone.com/news/flash-content-is-now-searchabl#comments Adobe flash flex Google search swf http://www.dzone.com/crss/node/3852 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:54:12 -0400 924 0 BenForta http://www.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-299809.gif Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:54:12 -0400 BenForta 3852 at http://www.dzone.com http://www.dzone.com/news/swf-searchable Adobe SWF files that run in the flash player will now be searchable. Adobe published SWF searchability FAQ earlier this morning explaining the details of what this implies.Web spiders will now be able to playback SWF(s) like users and cull out the data to add to their index. This annoucement has two huge impacts: http://www.dzone.com/news/swf-searchable#comments Adobe Google search swf web spiders Yahoo http://www.dzone.com/crss/node/3850 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:17:14 -0400 778 0 sandbox http://www.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-164334.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:17:14 -0400 sandbox 3850 at http://www.dzone.com http://www.dzone.com/news/saving-twitter-three-easy-step I don’t think I’m alone in seeing Twitter’s service deteriorate to the point where euthanasia seems like the only humane option.Without any obvious intimate knowledge of how the service is architected, these are my three easy steps to hunt and kill the fail whale.  1. Stop accepting new registrations http://www.dzone.com/news/saving-twitter-three-easy-step#comments twitter http://www.dzone.com/crss/node/3842 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:14:16 -0400 524 0 peterelst http://www.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-294202.jpg Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:14:16 -0400 peterelst 3842 at http://www.dzone.com http://www.dzone.com/news/theserverside-java-symposium-e Well, I'm home from Prague, from another edition of TheServerSide Java Symposium. This year was definitely a few notches up from last year in Barcelona in my opinion. And being in beautiful Prague didn't really cause any trouble either. =)I landed on Tuesday, and worked quite heavily on my talks. Due to the ThoughtWorks AwayDay I was really out in the last second with my two slide decks. But I... http://www.dzone.com/news/theserverside-java-symposium-e#comments europe java Seminar The Server Side http://www.dzone.com/crss/node/3782 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:48:02 -0400 1772 0 olabini http://www.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-287154.jpg Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:48:02 -0400 olabini 3782 at http://www.dzone.com http://www.dzone.com/news/max-2008-sessions-posted The MAX USA 2008 site is now up, and the schedule is now online too complete with the session list. Register now! Oh, and the site background is interactive, and apparently there are http://www.dzone.com/news/max-2008-sessions-posted#comments AdobeMAX08 Appearances MAX http://www.dzone.com/crss/node/3780 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:24:59 -0400 455 0 BenForta http://www.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-299809.gif Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:24:59 -0400 BenForta 3780 at http://www.dzone.com