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The Datum Data Binding Library
There has been an explosion of frameworks and libraries for making single page applications for the web. Angular, React, Vue and quite a few others have made it easier to develop on the web and helped fuel its growth as webapps have become more dynamic and interactive. Howeve,r there may still be room for other libraries and new ideas such as Datum, a new, simple data binding library.
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Preparing Entity Framework Core for Static Analysis and Nullable Reference Types
In this article we walk through the process of updating an EF Core 3.1 based DAL to adhere to modern best practices such as TreatWarningsAsErrors, FxCopAnalyzers, and C# 8’s nullable reference types.
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The Fundamental Truth behind Successful Development Practices: Software is Synthetic
Software systems are creative compounds, emergent and generative; the product of complex interactions between people and technology. They are different from the orderly, analytic worlds that our school-age selves expect to find. Being so full of complexity and uncertainty, we use a different way to arrive at a solution.
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Q&A on the Book EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation
In the book EDGE: Value-driven Digital Transformation, the authors explain why and how every business today needs to become a digital business with technology at the core. They explain six principles and a variety of practices that organisations can apply to survive and thrive on the creative edge where value is generated.
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Enterprise API Management: Q&A with Book Author Luis Weir
In the Enterprise API Management book, Luis Weir provides technology-agnostic strategies that organizations can implement to drive more predictable outcomes. The topics that Weir covers in this book include the Business Value of APIs, Business-Led API Strategy, API-Led Architectures, API-Architecture Styles, API Life Cycle and more.
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How King uses AI to test Candy Crush Saga
To be able to improve features in games which are constantly evolving, the challenge will be to scale tests to be on a par with new feature development. Automated tests are vital for King to keep up testing Candy Crush, therefore they are constantly looking for new improved ways to test.
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Q&A on the Book Creating your Dojo
Dion Stewart & Joel Tosi have written a book about creating a dojo to help teams get better at delivering software products. A dojo is an immersive learning environment where whole teams improve their practices on a range of skills. Dojos are more effective than traditional classroom learning because the whole team works together in the context of their own product and organization.
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A Transformation Journey for a Distributed Development Organization
Agile transformations are never easy, but are even more challenging than usual when it comes to geographically distributed teams. This article highlights experiences from Konica Minolta’s Workplace Hub program and shares the methods that helped them on their journey. It's about the organization, processes, but most importantly, about the people and the mindset.
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What Is Account Creation Fraud? Complete Guide to Detection and Prevention
In this article, we'll take a look at the re-emergence of account creation fraud, and how this type of attack works. Then we'll turn our attention to the impact that this is already having on the way that companies secure their identity management systems, the effects of security measures like virtual private networks (VPN) and password managers, along with what the future will bring.
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Product Goals, not Sprint Goals
There is a myth that Sprint Goals are a way to focus Scrum teams towards a common purpose, and without Sprint Goals, teams would end up building a disparate list of Product Backlog Items, every Sprint. This is in fact not only untrue, the reality is the exact opposite, that Sprint Goals are in fact a distraction and would only deliver parts of Product Goals.
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The Open Application Model from Alibaba’s Perspective
Alibaba co-announced the Open Application Model (OAM) with Microsoft on October 17th. OAM is a specification for describing application as well as its operational capabilities so that the application definition is separated from the details of how the application is deployed and managed.
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Top Picks for QCon 2019
Wesley Reisz is the QCon Chair && Community Advocate for London, San Francisco, and New York. This article brings together his favourite talks 45 from the 2019 QCon series of conferences.