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What Scrum Master Are You Hiring?
Have you looked at some of the ads for Scrum Masters lately? Some ads include the need for PMPs or they say they will give you a bonus if you complete the project at a certain time or to someone’s satisfaction.
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Interview and Book Review: DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux® Server Best Practices
Kyle Rankin delivers practical advice and techniques for team oriented troubleshooting of Linux servers in a DevOps culture. The book targets systems engineers, developers, and QA staff that have gaps in knowledge about troubleshooting Linux servers. The book includes Linux Server Best Practices in common problem areas.
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Growing EAI with Apache Camel
This article comprises practical examples of typical integration challenges and explores how Apache Camel can meet these challenges. These examples are presented in the context of an integration solution that starts simply but grows over time as new integration needs arise. The article concentrates on how Camel helps managing complexity and keeping the team productive.
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Design Pattern Automation
Despite the high total cost of ownership of a line of code, a lot of boilerplate code still gets written every day. Much of it could be avoided if we only had smarter compilers. Indeed, most boilerplate code stems from repetitive implementation of design patterns that are so well-understood that they could be implemented automatically if we had a way to teach it to compilers.
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Self-Organizing Organizations (For Real)
This is a true story about a company that operates under principles of self-organization. It is organized according to the free will of each individual in the company, all of them freely choosing to co-operate for achieving some goals. All you’ve ever wanted to know about self-organized companies, without daring actually run one.
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Interview & Book Review: “The Phoenix Project, A Novel About IT, DevOps & Helping Your Business Win”
This book addresses the divide between business and IT and between dev, ops and other teams in IT. It will resonate at one point or another with anyone who's ever worked in IT. DevOps on steroids one might call it.
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Refactoring Legacy Applications: A Case Study
To refactor legacy code, the ideal is to have a suite of unit tests to prevent regressions. However it's not always that easy. This article describes a methodology to safely refactor legacy code.
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Application Security Testing: The Double-sided Black Box
In this article, Rohit Sethi discusses one of the biggest risks with software security, the opaque nature of verification tools and processes, and the potential for false negatives not covered by the different verification techniques. He also talks about some examples of security requirements and examines how common verification methods apply to them.
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Fn.py: Enjoy Functional Programming in Python
Despite the fact that Python is not a pure-functional programming language, it's multi-paradigm and it gives you enough freedom to take credits from functional programming approach. Library fn.py was created in order to assist Python developers in using a functional programming style.
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DevOps @ Prezi
DevOps@Prezi is the second article of the “DevOps War Stories” series. Each month we hear what DevOps brings to a different organisation, we learn what worked and what didn’t, and chart the challenges faced during adoption. In this installment Peter Neumark tells us what "learning devops from within" means at Prezi.
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New Book: jQuery, jQuery UI And jQuery Mobile
“jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile” is a new book by Adriaan de Jonge and Phil Dutson. The book takes you through the various jQuery libraries and also covers the plugin-architecture provided by jQuery. The authors assume that the reader has basic HTML and JavaScript knowledge, but start from very basics of each of the jQuery libraries before going into advanced topics.
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Cloudberry: An HTML5 Cloud Phone Platform for Mobile Devices
In this article, authors introduce Cloudberry, an HTML5-based cloud phone software which offers the benefit of changing features on mobile devices almost instantly. They also talk about challenges of using this platform.