Scum is an easy technique to use in smaller teams and companies. Also a traditional project manager can adapt her project to most aspects of Scrum even if the surrounding business in unaware. But what about when the Scrum implementation gets really large? What if a whole telecom organization like …
The HTML 5 specification is set to forever change the way in which we build applications for the Web. One innovation- WebSocket- in particular will enable full-duplex HTTP communication, and finally bring an end to the tired “click and wait†paradigm traditionally associated with the Web. Prior to the introduction …
Eric Nelson from Microsoft interviewed me at the DevWeek 2009 conference about our software architecture workshop, transitioning into an architecture role and whether architects should code. Take a look … it’s a nice overview of our approach to software architecture and to training software developers to be more architecturally aware.
This session is aimed at developers who are interested in developing for Windows Mobile with little or no prior experience in this area. It will explain all of the essentials, including what Windows Mobile is, the various editions, devices types, development tools and libraries, the SDKs, options for working with …
The D programming language has been carefully designed to improve programmer productivity based on decades of experience programming, working with programmers and development tools. This talk will explore the design choices made on that basis. Aspects include making the language easier to learn, reducing coding tedium, defining common mistakes out …
Joist is a web application development stack. It consists of two sub-projects joist.domain, an ORM with type-safe queries (no strings) and no runtime class generation (no CGLIB), and joist.web, a component-based web framework. The goal is a simple, productive environment for enterprise-scale webapps. This screencast shows how to use the …