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Dependency Injection with Mark Seemann

Mark Seemann, author of Dependency Injection in .NET, talks to us about the differences between DI and Service Locators and the importance of having a Composite Root. He also touches on how these all relate back to the SOLID principals of object oriented design.

Jonathan Allen
on Jun 27, 2011
Interview and Book Excerpt: CMMI for Development

The CMMI for Development (CMMI-DEV) framework, developed at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), can be used to improve product quality and project and organizational performance. InfoQ spoke with Mike Konrad, co-author of the book published on CMMI-Dev framework.

Srini Penchikala
on Jun 21, 2011
Busy Java Developer’s Guide to Flex

Flex is a set of tools designed to make it easier for developers to build SWFs without having to use the Adobe Flash tool. This article explores Flex from a Java guy’s perspective, then shows how to set up the environment and examines topics like how to integrate Flex code with existing Java applications, as well as its applicability for use as a mobile device client technology.

Ted Neward
on Jun 21, 2011
Agile's Teenage Crisis?

Philippe Kruchten attended the 10 year anniversary event at Snowbird. He discusses a number of elephants in the agile room (topics that need to be addressed, but have been pointedly ignored) that were identified at that meeting. Ranging from politics to lack of context when implementing agile to the role of the agile alliance the participants raised these points for the community to consider.

Philippe Kruchten
on Jun 20, 2011
The Retrospective Practice as a Vehicle for Leading Conceptual Change

This paper tells how we coached the adaption process of agile software development in a specific company, with a focus on one mechanism – one-hour retrospectives – we employ to guide team members realize the needed change and let them lead it. From our perspective, the stage in which team members start facilitating the retrospective sessions by themselves is a landmark of success.

Yael Dubinsky Orit Hazzan
on Jun 14, 2011
Micro ORMs with Sam Saffron and Rob Conery

Opinions about ORMs vary widely. Some see it as an essential tool for simplifying data access while others claim it greatly increases complexity while robbing applications of much needed performance. Sam Saffron and Rob Conery have found a middle ground in what’s known as a Micro ORM.

Jonathan Allen
on Jun 13, 2011
Git, Gerrit Review and Jenkins or Hudson CI Servers

Together, Gerrit and Jenkins/Hudson allow you to propose changes and have those proposals automatically compiled/tested/verified before a human review even starts. This article shows how to install and configure Gerrit and how to hook it up to Jenkins/Hudson to build all proposed changes.

Alex Blewitt
on Jun 10, 2011
State of Cloud Applications and Platforms:The Cloud Adopters' View

In this IEEE article, authors Balakrishna Narasimhan and Ryan Nichols discuss the results of a survey of organizations with experience using cloud applications and platforms. They discuss the key findings of the survey including the emerging challenges in the cloud adoption.

Ryan Nichols Balakrishna Narasimhan
on Jun 08, 2011
Increasing Role of Open Source in ASP.NET

There has been an increasing trend in the ASP.NET team lately to adopt more Open Source - from supporting JQuery and Modernizr, to releasing sources for some underlying platform components. InfoQ gets in touch with Scott Hunter, Principal Program Manager Lead for ASP.NET to learn about this new trend, drivers behind some recent decisions and how things might look in the future.

Roopesh Shenoy
on Jun 07, 2011
Integrating Agile into a Waterfall World

Joseph Flahiff maintains that agile values principles and practices can be integrated into in a waterfall environment to improve project predictability and ultimate success. He offers three keys that the project manager must use to successfully unlock the power of agile to improve project delivery.

Joseph Flahiff
on Jun 06, 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture Maturity

In this IEEE article, Richard Welke, Rudy Hirschheim and Andrew Schwarz discuss a SOA maturity model that can be used to achieve organizational objectives, by accounting for the different motivations for SOA adoption by stakeholders like IT administrators, business managers, and enterprise leaders.

Andrew Schwarz Rudy Hirschheim Richard Welke
on Jun 02, 2011
Testing Misconceptions

In this article Liam O'Connor explains some of the common misconceptions about testing. If you write your tests with these in mind, he hopes that it will help you and your team to decide when it is appropriate to test, and when it isn't.

Liam O'Connor
on Jun 01, 2011

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