Archive for February, 2011

Risk and Waste on Agile Projects

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When you first start “doing Agile”, the focus is on getting the mechanics right: keep your standup updates short don’t over design remember to add tests for everything remember to check CI status only show working code during showcases … Download your Erection Problems Solved report today! Kamagra is one of the most commonly used […]

Charting Libraries For Web Applications

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Everyone loves charts. Well, maybe not everyone, but a lot of people. Well, maybe not a lot of people, but some. Ok, I love charts. Anyway, even if you don’t love charts, you may eventually have to work with them. And unless you’re into hand-coding image manipulation routines (and who isn’t), you will need a […]

Will Watson Take Your Job?

IBM’s Watson project has recently beat two top human players in Jeopardy. Although this is not the first time that an IBM computer beat a top human player in a game, what Watson did actually scares me a little (more on that in a bit). What’s the Big Deal About This Watson Character? What makes Watson […]

Trunk Development: Can’t we all just get along?

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Trunk development is an approach that leverages a single branch of code for all active projects. It helps eliminate painful merges, but requires a heightened level of awareness by the project teams.

Web UI Testing Frameworks: There could be only one

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To create good web applications, you need to test them. To test effectively, you need a good Web UI testing framework (which I will abbreviate as WUITF for the rest of this post. Catchy, no?). So, What Makes a Good WUITF? At its most basic, a WUITF should allow you to write tests using some […]

Geek Comic: Daily Standups

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Web Applications: the future of all development?

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Here is a crazy prediction: In 5 years, most applications will be built using what I like to call the JHC triumvirate (JavaScript, HTML, CSS). I’ll give you a second to gather yourself. You ok? Good. Now, let’s talk about why this may be. Since the dawn of time, people wanted to code once, but have […]