Create a Sustainable Architecture Organization
This video discusses a framework that can assess how well an architecture organization understands its environment and determine if it is meeting the needs of the organization.
The Why, When & How of Software Design
Advice about software design focuses on the principles designers should adhere to and the structures that should be created. This leaves designers prone to creating the right design at the wrong time. “Why, When & How” fills this gap, giving designers an understanding of the overall goals of software design, …
A CTO’s guide to Modern C++
It’s a very exciting time for C++ programmers: multiple competitive, capable toolchains to choose from, a re-invigorated standard body, and great IDEs that even die-hard emacs/edlin users are flocking toward.
Gradle In Very Large Projects
When your software project grows into the 100s and 1000s of sub-projects within a single project tree you shouldn’t have to compromise on build performance, and the Gradle team has been working hard on optimizing for this high end of enterprise software builds. If you’re involved in large projects and …
Programming with GUTs
These days testing is considered a sexy topic for programmers. Who’d have thought it? But what makes for good unit tests (GUTs)? There’s more to effective unit testing than just knowing the assertion syntax of a framework.
Practical Design Patterns and Coding Practices
Tutorials and how-to are great for learning the .NET programming basics, but they’re missing the pieces needed to make an organic, production app. Learn the fundamental steps needed to insure that your application can grow, interact with other applications, and, most importantly, remain maintainable. Learn the design patterns and coding …