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  • Presentation: Agile in Practice: What Is Actually Going On Out There?

    In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Scott Ambler talks about actual data resulting from surveys made during 2006-2008, showing how Agile is perceived and implemented within organizations. Some of the topics surveyed are: the adoption rate of Agile, the effectiveness of Agile approaches, the effectiveness of various techniques.

    Abel Avram
    on Sep 05, 2008

  • NeverBlock and Non-Blocking Database Adapters

    Besides Postgres, NeverBlock now also supports MySQL through the new MySQLPlus adapter. We talked to two of the developers of MySQLPlus and discussed NeverBlock and non-blocking database adapters with developers of Ruby's Oracle and SQLite interfaces.

    Mirko Stocker
    on Sep 05, 2008

  • Volta: Developing Distributed Applications by Recompiling

    Volta extends the reach of .NET programming languages, libraries, and tools to cover the cloud. As such it seems to become Microsoft's response to Google's GWT. In this article the contributors to the project explain what is "Architecture Refactoring", how it works and where it is going.

    Jean-Jacques Dubray
    on Sep 05, 2008

  • Spying on Silverlight

    The success of Microsoft Silverlight, as seen in the recent Beijing Olympics, shows the capabilities of the technology and is attracting more developers. The addition of end-users and developers using Silverlight will also drive more tool development and one such useful tool is Silverlight Spy by First Floor.

    Robert Bazinet
    on Sep 04, 2008

  • Presentation: Building Smart Windows Applications

    In this demo driven presentation, Daniel Moth explores the new features of .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 to create rich Windows clients. There are many opportunities for creating a rich application that runs client-side capitalizes on server-side investments.

    James Vastbinder
    on Sep 04, 2008

  • Questioning Servant Leadership

    Is the role of an agile manager only that of servant leader? Should they ever use traditional command and control tools? Should the agile manager ever wield authority and make demands of the team? Should they ever make changes in the membership?

    Mark Levison
    on Sep 04, 2008

  • Using Closures to Improve API Design and Usage

    Some APIs such as those that perform complex parsing often expose intermediate results via events. As Eric White demonstrates, closures can be used to greatly simplify calling these APIs.

    Jonathan Allen
    on Sep 04, 2008

  • New NHibernate Community Site

    Fabio Maulo, a member of the NHibernate team, has announced the start of a new NHibernate web site called NH Forge. The name is a reminder of the fact that NHibernate was previously hosted on SourceForge.net since 2005. The purpose of the new site is to bring together the NHibernate community, having all necessary in one place.

    Abel Avram
    on Sep 04, 2008

  • Article: Using Ruby Fibers for Async I/O: NeverBlock and Revactor

    Ruby 1.9's Fibers and non-blocking I/O are getting more attention - we talked to Mohammad A. Ali of the NeverBlock project (which provides support for MySQL and PostgreSQL) and Tony Arcieri of the Revactor project.

    Werner Schuster
    on Sep 03, 2008

  • Martin Fowler on Avoiding Common Scrum Pitfalls

    Jacky Li of InfoQ China spoke with Martin Fowler during ThoughtWorks' AgileChina conference. In this print interview, Martin Fowler talked about Scrum certification and the future of Agile.

    Jacky Li
    on Sep 03, 2008

  • JRuby Roundup: RCov Port Available, Ribs For Hibernate Support, Parser Stats

    A port of the popular code coverage tool rcov is now available for JRuby. Ola Bini started a Hibernate-based library for persisting Ruby objects named Ribs. And finally, JRuby trunk contains a new MBean for analysing parse times.

    Werner Schuster
    on Sep 03, 2008

  • The source code for portions of .NET 3.5 SP1

    Updated source code for fifteen .NET assemblies have been released. These can be downloaded as needed by Visual Studio or all at once using NetMassDownloader.

    Jonathan Allen
    on Sep 03, 2008

  • Presentation: Ruby Beyond Rails

    John Lam talks about his path to dynamic languages, some of the problems of making IronRuby run fast, and how the DLR helps with implementing languages.

    Werner Schuster
    on Sep 02, 2008

  • Interview: Joshua Kerievsky about Industrial XP

    In this interview taken by Sadek Drobi of InfoQ, Joshua Kerievsky, founder of Industrial Logic, talks about Industrial Extreme Programming which extends XP by including practices dealing with management, customers and developers.

    Abel Avram
    on Sep 02, 2008

  • SDK for StyleCop Released

    One of the central complaints about Microsoft's StyleCop is that the rules were not customizable. This is being addressed with the release of an SDK.

    Jonathan Allen
    on Sep 02, 2008
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