Extreme programming sounds a little too “ESPN2” for most managers, but there is a lot of sound engineering behind its principles. I talk about the parts of XP that are absolutely vital and the ones that you can introduce a little more slowly (pair programming, only a 40 hour work …
This tutorial shows how to create a simple Java program using Netbeans.
Learn how more traditional PMBOK and Waterfall organizations are becoming agile.and listen to great Q&A sessions with the audience on topics, such as … * Is Agile only for software projects? * How and Where to identify areas to leverage Agile * How do you move to Agile? * How …
We talk about Best Practices as though somewhere there exists an “ideal” way to write software, and we just need to discover what it is. When we do it will probably be bullet-shaped and silvery. This is at best a naive and at worst an irresponsible way to approach anything, …
A presentation of the dynamic SQL statements for Informix.
MRI, JRuby, Rubinius and other ruby implementations. What is an extension developer to do? One for each? Enter Foreign Function Invocation. Rubinius and JRuby ship with a version of libffi, and the ‘ffi’ rubygem for MRI. Now we, as extension developers, can write an extension once, and have it run …