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  • Best Practices for Open-source Projects

    GitHub’s Phil Haack hosted a panel on Channel 9 that focused on best practices for open source projects.

  • Becoming a Great Remote Developer

    This post explains the best practices for becoming great and successful remote developer.

  • Alex Bordei on Scaling NoSQL Databases

    Network performance, virtualization and testing are some of the considerations to address performance and scalability issues with NoSQL databases. Alex Bordei wrote about scaling NoSQL databases and tips for increasing performance when using these data stores.

  • Experiences and Good Practices from Hackathons

    Hackathons are events where developers work together during a fixed period to collaboratively develop software. They provide learning opportunities and space for developers and organizations sponsoring the hackathons to network and have some fun.

  • Lean Change Using Innovative Practices

    Organizations are looking for ways to do continuous change to increase their agility. There’s an interest in practices that managers can use to make change happen in their organizations. InfoQ interviewed Jason Little about his book on lean change management, what inspires him, and on using options and innovative practices in change.

  • Apiary Announces Apiary for Enterprise

    Apiary, the company behind API Blueprints has announced a new offering, Apiary for Enterprise, that promotes API design best practices through tooling that validates API designs against defined API style guide standards and best practices. InfoQ caught up with Apiary to shed more light on this new offering.

  • Google Web Fundamentals and Web Starter Kit

    Google has published a number of guidelines and boilerplate code for cross-platform responsive website design.

  • AnyPresence Soups up Enterprise MBaaS Platform- Part 1 of 2

    Mobile Backend as a Service provider AnyPresence continues to hone their chops. Launching the fifth update to their self-titled platform geared for the enterprise. Co-founder Rich Mendis provides some insights for InfoQ readers…

  • Latest Technology Trends on the Radar

    Thoughtworks recently released a new installment of their technology radar highlighting techniques enabling infrastructure as code, perimeterless enterprises, applying proven practices to areas without, and lightweight analytics.

  • How Individuals Can Adopt an Agile Way of Working

    Organization mostly do an agile transformation for a whole team, project, or organizational unit, given that agile is a team driven approach. But there are also professionals who start using agile practices individually, or who are working agile as a one person team. How can individuals adopt agile, and what kind of benefits can it give them?

  • Different Approaches for Product Backlog Grooming

    The purpose of backlog grooming is to keep the product backlog up to date and clean. Different approaches are used by product owners and teams to do this.

  • Evidence of Success of Agile Projects

    Early results of a study on the effects of agile development practices are showing improvements in productivity and quality. These results aim to answer questions on development projects schedules and budgets. They also provide insight in the results of outsourcing and co-located teams.

  • Community-Driven Research: What are the most widely used .NET practices and tools?

    InfoQ's research initiative continues with an 8th question: "What are the most widely used .NET practices and tools?". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.

  • Using DRY: Between Code Duplication and High-Coupling

    DRY reduces duplication and the maintenance problems coming with it, but misusing it leads to high coupling and reduced readability. The lesson: a software development principle should be applied considering other corresponding principles, patterns and practices.

  • Gartner: Best and Worst EA and Application Architecture Practices

    A Gartner webinar discusses the best and worst practices in enterprise and application architecture.

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