We’re agile, so we don’t have to estimate and have no deadlines, right? Wrong! This session will consist of an overview of the concept of agile estimation and the notion of re-estimation. We’ll learn about user stories, story points, team velocity, how to apply them all to estimation and iterative …
Brendan Eich, the creator of the world’s most popular programming language, talks about the struggle over the ES4 proposal and how it resulted in a specific set of proposals for ES5.
David Durant and Paul Yao discuss the relationship between the Windows Mobile platform and the .NET Compact Framework 3.5. Learn about their thoughts on the iPhone platform.
Pickle adds many convenient Cucumber steps for generating models. Also learn about table diffs in this episode. Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid – all rolled …
As web developers, we live in an arranged marriage with JavaScript. What is a Rubyist to do? Use JavaScript as a compile target? Abstract it away on the server? With JRuby, we can embrace the shared language of the web in a compelling way, building reusable libraries that work across …
San Francisco Java User Group presents Kohsuke Kawaguchi from Sun who introduces us to Hudson, an open-source continuous integration (CI) system, which improves the productivity of a development team by automating various things. Additional resources: Hudson Blog Continuous Integration: The Cornerstone of a Great Shop Continuous Integration Tools Directory