Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface. This tutorial teaches you how to get started using …
Most unit tests are not unit tests and their authors suffer for it. What is unit testing, really? How can writing them prevent classic testing problems? If you do write them, what trade-offs are you implicitly making?
Learn how Kanban, as an alternative to top-down approaches, can be used to support introduction of best software development and organizational practices using a few real-life examples.
In Agile projects, continuous integration (CI) implements continuous processes of applying quality control — that is, small pieces of effort, applied frequently.
What should software architecture be? How is it related to major critical software qualities and performance, to costs and constraints? How do we decide exactly what to propose and how do we estimate and prove it is justified? How can an organization qualify their own architects, and know the difference …
Devops represents a different approach to IT operations — an approach based on the principles of collaboration, visibility and automation. For developers it means a better understanding and greater visibility into the environment that the production system is running. For operations it means closer collaboration with development and a greater …
