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Automated Builds: How to Get Started
The first part of this series discussed some of the benefits of automating your build and deployment processes. In this article, we will take a common example of a corporate web application for a fictional financial institution, and walk through fully automating their build process.
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The Datomic Information Model
Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, explains the information model of Datomic - a new database designed as a composition of simple services, combining the capabilities of RDBMS and scalability of NoSQL.
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DevOps @ Nokia Entertainment
DevOps@Nokia Entertainment is the first 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.
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Agile Podcasts: A Great Learning Alternative
Reading is a very widespread way of consuming information about Agile practices, but it is not the only way. Listening to podcasts is an alternative way to increase your knowledge.
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Why Should Agilists Care About Capitalization?
This article examines the impact of accounting rules on Agile projects and provides perspectives and resources to make the accounting argument for agile capitalization, potentially reducing your company’s tax burden, increasing available funds for engineers, and making your auditors happy.
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Interview and Book Review: Continuous Delivery and DevOps - A Quickstart Guide
"Continuous Delivery and DevOps - A Quickstart Guide" is a good starting point for newbies as well as for those facing the challenge of changing organizations with complex release processes.
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Interview and Book Review: A practical approach to large-scale Agile development
A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development tells the story about applying agile and lean principles in a large scale software development program for the HP laserjet futuresmart firmware. An interview with with two of the authors, Gary Gruver and Mike Young, about agile principles, managing change, collaboration between distributed teams, and the benefits of using agile.
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Book Review: Core Java Volume 1 - Fundamentals
Core Java Volume I Ninth Edition by Cay Horstmann and Gary Cornell has been released, and it is as lucid and replete with basic non-trivial examples as ever. In this two-volume tome you will find everything you ever wanted to know about Java 7, the latest release of the Java Development Kit, including collections, generics, concurrency, etc.
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Sharing Code in WCF without Code Generation
One of the principal problems with normal WCF development is code reuse. No matter how well you design your classes on the server, once the proxy generator has touched them you get nothing but simple DTOs. This article shows how to bypass the proxy generator so that your client and server can share code.
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Getting Started with Shuttle Service Bus
Shuttle Service Bus is a .NET open source framework providing distribution support for command and event messaging useful in building an EDA system. This article introduces Shuttle and a case study of its use in production.
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Designing a World at Your Fingertips: A Look at Mobile User Interfaces
User interface (UI) is a critical component of any successful mobile application. In this article, Forrest Shull presents his interview discussion with Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers about mobile UI principles and other areas of ongoing research including multiple devices, privacy and security, and voice. He also talks about the challenges when developing mobile user interfaces.
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The Role of the Development Manager
A Development Manager has a number of responsibilities, but the primary one is to get a product out the door. Filling this role requires a large skill set and this article discusses what skills are needed, and not needed, to be an effective Development Manager.