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Interview with Mary Delamater, Author of Murach's ASP.NET 4.5 Web Programming with C# 2012

Murach Publishing continues to provide quality content for programmers by updating their titles regularly. Murach ASP.NET 4.5 Web Programming with C# 2012 by Mary Delamater and Anne Boehm attempts to provide a comprehensive coverage of ASP.NET 4.5 using C# language with plenty of screenshots and source codes to help developers to code in real world situations.

Anand Narayanaswamy
on Sep 10, 2013
Kanban - Isn’t It Just Common Sense?

We have seen how the notion of heuristics is powerful when thinking about product development. The Agile Manifesto can be thought of as a set of heuristics, with individual Agile processes and practices. This Kanban Thinking model includes 5 kanban heuristics that encapsulate the key areas to focus upon, along with 3 impacts that encapsulate the areas of improvement.

Karl Scotland
on Sep 09, 2013
Book Review: Vagrant up and running

Mitchell Hashimoto released his book "Vagrant up and running" which covers everything from basic Vagrant usage to extending its functionality. In seven chapters he explains every aspect of Vagrant - from staring a default VM to extending it via plug-ins.

Matthias Marschall
on Sep 06, 2013
Interview with Kevin Nilson on Cloud Monitoring and Mobile Testing

Managing a cloud environment is very different from managing servers inside the wall. On JavaOne Shanghai 2013, Kevin Nilson, the VP of Engineering at just.me, gave a talk on what needs to be done after deploying to the cloud, and he covered a lot on what an ops needs to take care of on AWS environment.

Sai Yang
on Sep 05, 2013
Planning and Controlling Complex Projects

Planning and budgeting large projects is often based on trying to predict how development will turn out. Stories are estimated by the development team, but the budget for the whole project is independent from those estimates. Especially for complex projects this leads most often to (unwanted) surprises. Insights from beyond budgeting can help to increase flexibility, and focus on business value.

Jutta Eckstein
on Sep 02, 2013
The Fail-Safe Organization

Agile has many answers to the challenges of contemporary software development. It also challenges us with a fundamental paradox: learning is essential to success but failure is essential to learning. The challenge is to make our organizations fail-safe, to create an environment where it is safe to take the risks learning requires.

Steve Peha
on Aug 30, 2013
Preparing for Continuous Delivery in the Enterprise

In this article you will find guidance on how to get started realizing a Continuous Delivery vision, especially in the context of existing development and release environments in large enterprises.

Andrew Phillips
on Aug 28, 2013
Getting Started with HotSpot and OpenJDK

In this article, we look at the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine, and its implementation in the OpenJDK, both from a VM perspective and also in terms of its interaction with the Java class libraries.

Ben Evans
on Aug 27, 2013
Capture Knowledge and Make Decisions Transparent in a Design Thinking Process

In Design Thinking a huge amount of knowledge is produced in a very short time and a lot of decisions are made. As time goes by, the knowledge dissipates and it is no longer clear why certain decisions were made. In this article, the authors use a concrete example to show how the knowledge gathered in the process can be captured in an Impact Map and how that is used to make transparent decisions

Jürgen Wagner Matthias Edinger
on Aug 26, 2013
Database Versioning and Delivery with Upgrade Scripts

Konrad Lukasik provides practical advice on versioning and preparing a database for delivery using upgrade scripts. The article is based on experiences from enterprise environment and includes accompanying scripts and table definitions.

Konrad Lukasik
on Aug 23, 2013
The Case for Software Lifecycle Integration

For many years, software delivery has been treated as an ancillary business process; a business process that, though costing the organization a considerable amount of money, does not have the structure, rigor, or focus of other enterprise business processes such as supply chain management, financial management, and even talent management.

Dave West
on Aug 22, 2013
Scrum for Education - Experiences from eduScrum and Blueprint Education

Schools use Scrum to help students to learn more effectively and develop themselves in an enjoyable way. The self-organized student teams work in sprints to learn subjects and evolve the learning process. Results from the agile way of working are improved quality of education, higher grades and motivated students. InfoQ interviewed people from several schools involved in teaching with Scrum.

Ben Linders
on Aug 21, 2013

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