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Pragmatic Dave on Passion, Skill and 'Having A Blast'

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Agile
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Methodologies,
Stories & Case Studies,
Training / Certification,
University Programs

At QconLondon 2007 Jim Coplien spoke with "Pragmatic" Dave Thomas for InfoQ. This energetic 30-minute interview runs the gamut of Dave's wide-ranging interests: 'agile' publishing; how to turn what you love doing into a book; programming (and methodology) monocultures; staying limber with code "katas"; and advice for academics: help your students live with the passion of a 5-year old!

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Rails Roundup: updated Agile Web development book, GSoC '08, to_proc vs Ruby 1.8.7

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Ruby
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Performance & Scalability,
Ruby on Rails

A look at recent Rails news, including the announcement of the 3rd edition of "Agile Web Development with Rails" by the Pragmatic Programmers and two projects accepted for Google's Summer of Code looking at Rails' performance. Finally, we look at how Rails' use of Symbol#to_proc caused this feature to be taken out of Ruby 1.8.7 and a new source for Rails news for Japanese readers.

Interview: Johanna Rothman on Schedule Games and other Organizational Dysfunctions

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Agile
Topics
Leadership

Johanna Rothman is an organizational consultant, coach and co-creator of the AYE conference (Accelerate Your Effectiveness). Deborah Hartmann interviewed her at Agile2007 about her third management book - and discovered that there are names for some of the the scheduling games that cause us to spin our wheels, including: Bring Me A Rock, Queen of Denial and Pants on Fire!

Apple Manager Writes "Managing Humans" to Help Techies

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Agile
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Collaboration,
Careers,
Leadership

It’s Michael Lopp’s belief that developers are trained to manage bits well, but not humans. When developers are promoted to managers much harm can be inflicted. Michael uses stories and humour to warn us of the many perils of management and how to navigate around them.

Interview and Book Excerpt: Model Based Software Testing and Analysis with C#

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.NET,
Architecture
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Code Analysis,
Software Testing,
.NET Framework

Recently published, Model Based Software Testing and Analyis with C#, by Cambridge University Press. Infoq was able to speak with all four authors about their personal views on model based testing and analysis: Jonathan Jacky, Margus Veanes, Colin Campbell and Wolfram Schulte.

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Book Excerpt and Review: Release It!

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Agile,
Java,
Architecture,
.NET,
Ruby
Topics
Delivering Quality,
Stories & Case Studies,
Performance & Scalability,
Enterprise Architecture,
Deployment / Datacenter

'Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software' by Michael Nygard, which is nominated for a 2008 Jolt Award, discusses what it takes to make production-ready software and explains how this differs from feature-complete software. InfoQ spoke with Nygard about the areas that the book covers and some questions around how the book's philosophy fits in with concepts such as Agile.

Book Review: The Responsibility Virus Helps Fear Undermine Collaboration

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Agile
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Collaboration,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Leadership

Do "empowered" organizations outperform their command-and-control competitors? Business school dean Roger Martin saw this promising approach fail too frequently. His diagnosis: he calls it the Responsibility Virus, and offers tools to help those who would treat the Virus in their own workplace. Reviewer Deborah Hartmann found this book a good explanation of why process is not enough.

Interview and Book Excerpt: RESTful Web Services

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SOA
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Web Services

Today, InfoQ publishes a sample chapter from RESTful Web Services, a book authored by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby. The book covers the principles of the REST style, and explains how to build RESTful applications using Java, Ruby, and Python. InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov had a chance to talk to the authors about their motivations for writing this book and their views on REST and Web services.

What is the Ruby Way?

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Ruby
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Programming

Author Hal Fulton has updated his modern classic, The Ruby Way. The publication of the second edition, due the third week of October to coincide with RubyConf 2006, marks the launch of Addison Wesley's Professional Ruby Series. In this InfoQ exclusive excerpt, Hal answers the question: "What is the Ruby Way?"