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New book - Individuals and Interactions: An Agile Guide

Ken Howard and Barry Rogers have written a book that focuses on the first value from the Agile Manifesto. They provide advice, tools and techniques to help teams and individuals improve their communications and interpersonal interactions. The book presents a set of tools that work together more effectively. They provide guidelines for a workshop to put the techniques into practice.

Shane Hastie
on Jul 18, 2011
Interview and Book Excerpt: CMMI for Services

CMMI for Services(CMMI-SVC)is a process improvement framework developed by the SEI for service providers. InfoQ spoke to Eileen Forrester, co-author of CMMI for Services: Guidelines for Superior Service and manager of CMMI-SVC. In this interview we cover adoption practices for CMMI-SVC and its relationship with CMMI-DEV, ITIL and Agile accompanied by relevant excerpts from the book.

Jeevak Kasarkod
on Jul 14, 2011
Interview and Book Excerpt: CERT Resilience Management Model

CERT Resilience Management Model (CERT-RMM), developed at Software Engineering Institute (SEI), defines the processes for managing operational resilience in complex risk-evolving environments. InfoQ spoke with Rich Caralli, Technical Manager of the CERT Resilient Enterprise Management Team, about RMM framework and the book he co-authored.

Srini Penchikala
on May 30, 2011
Interview and Book Excerpt: Dan Haywood's Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects

Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects book, by author Dan Haywood, covers the Domain-Driven Design topic using the open-source Java framework Naked Objects framework (which is now part of the Apache Isis incubator project). InfoQ spoke with Dan about the book, Naked Objects framework and its recent submission to be an Apache project.

Srini Penchikala
on Mar 31, 2011
Book Excerpt and Interview: 100 SOA Questions Asked and Answered

A new "100 SOA Questions Asked and Answered " book by Kerrie Holley and Ali Arsanjani provides a deep insight into SOA covering a wide spectrum of topics from SOA basics to its business and organizational impact, to SOA methods and architecture to SOA future. InfoQ spoke with Kerrie Holley and Ali Arsanjani about their book.

Boris Lublinsky
on Feb 02, 2011
Interview and Book Excerpt: George Fairbanks’ Just Enough Software Architecture

Just Enough Software Architecture book, by author George Fairbanks, focuses on a risk-driven approach to software architecture development. George explains Architecture Modeling process from different perspectives such as Engineering Use Models, Conceptual, Domain, Design and Code Models. InfoQ spoke with George about the book and his thesis project on design fragments in software framework.

Srini Penchikala
on Nov 23, 2010
Book Excerpt and Interview: The Joy of Clojure

The Joy of Clojure by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser is a book that tries to take the reader beyond the language syntax, and show how to write fluent, idiomatic Clojure code. It teaches how to approach programming challenges from a Functional perspective and master the Lisp techniques that make Clojure so elegant and efficient.

Dio Synodinos
on Nov 21, 2010
Book Excerpt and Interview: ExtJS in Action

ExtJS in Action by Jesus Garcia is a book that tries to introduce the Ext JS cross-browser JavaScript library, which is used for building Rich Internet Applications. Ext JS combines a large library of widgets, an extensible component model, and an easy-to-use API to create a full, rock-solid platform for JavaScript-based web apps.

Dio Synodinos
on Sep 17, 2010
Book Excerpt and Interview: Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide

Boris Lublinsky interviews Prabhakar Chaganti and Rich Helms as part of a review of their new book, Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide. The book provides a simple step-by-step guide on how to develop applications for Amazon Simple DB in different programming languages including Java, PHP, and Python.

Boris Lublinsky
on Jul 20, 2010
Fred Brooks on The Design of Design: Interview and Excerpt

A review of Frederick P. Brooks' latest book, The Design of Design. Few individuals have had as much influence on the 'practice' of software development and this book of loosely coupled essays on the essence of design, design process, and the development and nurturing of great designers extends and enhances previous contributions to the field. The review is enhanced with an interview and excerpt.

Dave West
on Jun 30, 2010
Interview and Book Excerpt: Eben Hewitt's Java SOA Cookbook

Java SOA Cookbook, by Eben Hewitt, covers Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) from a Java implementation stand-point. In the book, Eben discusses SOA model basics, tools and best practices. SOA Governance and Enterprise Service Bus are also discussed.

Srini Penchikala
on Dec 07, 2009
Interview and Book Excerpt: Mark Richards' Java Message Service 2nd Edition

Java Message Service, 2nd Edition, by Mark Richards, covers JMS topics such as the two programming models, publish-and-subscribe and point-to-point, Messaging Filtering and Transactions. InfoQ spoke with Mark about his new book. Topics covered in the interview include EJB 3.0, Spring Message Driven POJO's (MDP)and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architecture.

Srini Penchikala
on Sep 28, 2009

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