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Rich Hickey discusses Clojure features and syntax, example code, functional programming, concurrency semantics, transactions, software transactional memory, agents, implementation and pain points.
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Posted by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt on Jul 24, 2006 05:41 PM
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Chapter 7: Agile Debugging
Testing Tools to Support Agile Software Delivery
Offshore software development: Making it a success with Agile Practices
Lean Software Development Governance, a whitepaper by Per Kroll and Scott Ambler
Webcast: Applying lean thinking to the governance of software development
The Future of Software Delivery According to visionaries Grady Booch & Erich Gamma
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Even on the most talented agile projects, things will go wrong. Bugs,
errors, defects, mistakes—whatever you want to call them, they will
happen.
The real problem with debugging is that it is not amenable to a time
box. You can time box a design meeting and decide to go with the best
idea at the end of some fixed time. But with a debugging session, an
hour, a day, or a week may come and go and find you no closer to
finding and fixing the problem.
You really can’t afford that sort of open-ended exposure on a project.
So, we have some techniques that might help, from keeping track of
previous solutions to providing more helpful clues in the event of a
problem.
[ Read the whole chapter ]
Want to be a better developer? This book collects the personal habits, ideas, and approaches of successful agile software developers and presents them in a series of short, easy-to-digest tips. This isn't academic fluff; follow these ideas and you'll show yourself, your teammates, and your managers real results. These are the proven and effective agile practices that will make you a better developer.
This book will help you improve five areas of your career:
- The Development Process
- What to Do While Coding
- Developer Attitudes
- Project and Team Management
- Iterative and Incremental Learning
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored more than 3000 software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and India. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at conferences. He is also an adjunct faculty at the University of Houston (where he received the 2004 CS department teaching excellence award) and teaches the professional software developer series at Rice University School of continuing studies. He is author of ".NET Gotchas" .
Andy Hunt is well known as a programmer, author, and publisher. He has co-authored five books including The Pragmatic Programmer, as well as numerous articles, and was one of the 17 founders of the Agile Alliance.
Rich Hickey discusses Clojure features and syntax, example code, functional programming, concurrency semantics, transactions, software transactional memory, agents, implementation and pain points.
We introduce the concept of Composite Oriented Programming, and show how it avoids the issues with OOP and reignites the hope of being able to compose domain models with reusable pieces.
Dan Farino talks about the system architecture and the challenges faced when building a very large online community. Dan explains how a .NET product scales on hundreds of servers.
Alan Shalloway, CEO and founder of Net Objectives, presents the Lean software development principles and practices and how they can benefit to Agile practitioners.
Bernd Mathiske discusses Maxine VM, Java compatibility, swapping major VM components, research areas, Object handling, code examples, optimizing compiler, snippets, bytecode generation, JNI and JIT.
Joe Armstrong speaks on various aspects of the Erlang language, presenting its roots, how it compares with other languages and why it has become popular these days.
The java double-check singleton pattern is not thread safe and can’t be fixed. In this article, Dr. Alexey Yakubovich provides an implementation of the Singleton pattern that he claims is thread-safe.
Diana and Jim talk about patterns observed in CTOs' activity. CTOs emerge as real people caring for other people in their organization, and are put under a lot of pressure and constraints.
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