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RubyCentral founder Chad Fowler Joins InfoEther
Chad Fowler, Founder of Ruby Central which organizes RailsConf and RubyConf announced that he has joined InfoEther, a six year old startup run by Rich Kilmer, author of FreeRIDE Ruby IDE, RubyGems package manager, as well as maintainer of RubyForge.org.
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Moonlight in 21 days
In preparation for ReMix07 in Paris, the Mono team filled out the bones of their implementation of Silverlight with very impressive results.
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Presentation: Code Organization Guidelines for Large Code Bases
Structuring a large code base maintained by multiple teams working in parallel can be a real challenge. If you are not disciplined about code structure overtime you will end up with a tangled, unmaintainable mess. In this session Juergen Hoeller provides general guidelines on packaging and package interdependencies, layering and module decomposition, and evolving a large code base.
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Fun: New Programmatic Certification - WOMM Programme
Jeff Attwood outlined a new programmatic Certification programme, WOMM (Works On My Machine), as an humorous mechanism for highlighting broken builds in a continuous build environment.
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Google SoC Series: dcov - Ruby documentation coverage analyzer
Ruby gains another tool to ensure code quality: dcov analyses Ruby code and determines the documentation coverage. We caught up with dcov developer Jeremy McAnally to talk about his plans.
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Presentation: Obie Fernandez on Agile DSL Development in Ruby
Our own InfoQ Ruby editor gives you a primer on using Ruby to develop DSLs with our exclusive presentation from the JAOO conference in Denmark.
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Second Annual 'State of Agile Development' Survey
The second annual State of Agile Development Survey, sponsored by the Agile Project Leadership Network and VersionOne has been released. The survey is described as taking "5-7 minutes to complete approximately 20 questions". The results are completely anonymous, and will be presented at Agile 2007. Three Amazon gift certificates will be randomly drawn for participants.
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Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Agile compatibility
Design in the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) world involves working with the user to understand the problem and come up with a user interface – typically on paper - of the entire system before turning it over, in Big Design Upfront (BDUF) manner, to the rest of the development team to build. So how can Robert Biddle claim that HCI has home-grown practices that are very similar to those of Agile?
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Separating Views from Business Logic with Acropolis
Microsoft's GUI toolkits tend to encourage developers to tightly couple business logic with presentation. Comparing the original VB and ASP or WinForms and ASP.Net, one sees very little change in this regard. Acropolis is different though, and for the first time since MFC it looks like Microsoft is taking the concept of separation of concerns seriously.
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Agile Certification beyond the CSM...
Scott Ambler delves once again into the subject of Agile Certification, airing the pros and cons of current certifications (namely the CSM), discusses potential elements of future qualifications. Is the ground swell of opinion growing for a wholesale change in Agile Certification, or is the CSM evolving enough to maintain community integrity?
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Microsoft and Agile - Divergent Agendas?
Martin Fowler has questioned Microsoft's grip on leading-edge developers. MS has threatened one developer with legal action over his TestDriven.Net extension for VisualStudio Express, and MS development of an incompatible rival to NUnit has alienated many developers. Is there a widening divide between MS and the Agile community, as each pursues different a vision? Now's the time to speak up.
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Microsoft Releases eScrum 1.0 TFS-based Project Management Tool
Microsoft has released eSCRUM 1.0, a Web-based project management tool for Scrum built on the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server platform. Project interaction is via web-based UI, Team Explorer, Excel, or Project. It provides a single place for all Scrum artifacts such as product backlog, sprint backlog, task management, retrospective, and reports.
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Father of the Web Tim Berners-Lee honored again
Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, is appointed to Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II.
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Can Agile Separate Team Concerns from Organizational Ones?
When it comes to agile methods, almost everyone agrees that agility can apply to the software development team and to the organization. This raises some questions: To what extent can the one be separated from the other? Can an agile team succeed if the organization around them doesn't wish to adapt to an agile approach?
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Ruby x Agile: Matz explores the relationships between Ruby and Agile
Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto recently starred in the first of six short videos exploring the relationship between Ruby and Agile methodologies. Matz features along with Kenji Hiranabe and Shintaro Kakutani. Kenji is a self confessed ‘Agile agitator’ and Japanese translator of multiple XP/Agile books. Shintaro is a strong Ruby proponent.