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    Brian Pontarelli - founder of Inversoft

    Found a good shortcut for getting access to hidden folders in OS X file dialogs and the Finder. It requires some typing and it doesn’t... more»

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    Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc.

    Last weekend, I spoke at the Ag ile Experience in Reston. It was a great con more»

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    GMail complains that the 44 Kbps internet dial up connection I'm using may be too slow. It suggests that I switch to HTML view. I reload the... more»

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    Author of Getting Started with Grails

    Tests increasingly serve multiple roles in today’s projects. They help us design APIs through test-driven development. They provide... more»

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    For those of you who are wondering if Ruby is enterprise worthy, then eRubyCon is for you. The speaker list is a "W more»

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    Judging from the list of features that will be included in NetBeans 6.5, more»

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    Sr. Engineer with Terracotta Inc.

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    Principal Consultant, CodeSherpas Inc.

    I just spent this weekend speaking at the Ag ile IT Exchange conference i more»

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    Chief Architect at Near Infinity

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    Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

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    Groovy Spec Lead & Project Manager

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    G2One Director Of North American Operations - Groovy and Grails Developer

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    Author of Beginning JBoss Seam & Co-Author of Beginning Groovy & Grails

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    Java author, Ruby geek and Open Source Advocate

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    Spring Integration Lead

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    Chief Software Architect, Quantcast

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    Web Application Security Specialist

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    Author of Java Servlet Programming

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New Tools Section
Posted by: Ryan Shriver on 07/03/2008

Ryan Shriver
One of the things that helps reenforce new concepts, like the ones I???m teaching, are simple tools that guide you along the way. Like a carpenter???s square, hand plane or ruler, simple tools can be very effective in the hands of a trained engineer. To help further the agile engineering discipline, I???ve created a Tools section of the site and published the first one, an Impact Estimation table designed for Architects and Requirements Analysts.Impact Estimation is a way to assess a... more »

Polyglot Plurality
Posted by: Ted Neward on 07/02/2008

Ted Neward
The Pragmatic Programmer says, "Learn a new language every year". This is great advice, not just because it puts new tools into your mental toolbox that you can pull out on various occasions to get a job done, but also because it opens your mind to new ideas and new concepts that will filter their way into your code even without explicit language support. For example, suppose you've looked at (J/Iron)Ruby or Groovy, and come to like the "internal iterator" approach as a way of... more »

Dateility
Posted by: Nathaniel Schutta on 07/02/2008

Nathaniel Schutta
Software is full of ilities - those quality attributes that more seasoned veterans (or anyone that thinks beyond today’s quarter) care an awful lot about. Some common non-functional requirements bandied about include scalability, reusability, flexibility, testability, availability, usability, adaptability, maintainability…really we could go on and on. Individually, none of these is more or less important than any other though depending on what you’re building for whom,... more »

The power of Office as a front-end
Posted by: Ted Neward on 07/02/2008

Ted Neward
I recently had the pleasure of meeting Bruce Wilson, a principal with iLink, and we had a pleasant conversation about enterprise applications and trends and such. Last week, in the middle of my trip to Prague and Zurich, he sent me a link to a blog entry he'd written on using Office as a front-end, and it sort of underscored some ideas I've had around Office in general. The interesting thing is, most of the ideas he talks about here could just as easily be... more »

Where the hell is Matt?
Posted by: Richard Monson-Haefel on 07/02/2008

Richard Monson-Haefel
I really needed this today."Matt is a 31-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut who used to think that all he ever wanted to do in life was make and play videogames. Matt achieved this goal pretty early and enjoyed it for a while, but eventually realized there might be other stuff he was missing out on. In February of 2003, he quit his job in Brisbane, Australia and used the money he'd saved to wander around Asia until it ran out. He made this site so he could keep his family and friends... more »

It?s ok to wet yourself every once in awhile
Posted by: Andrew Glover on 07/01/2008

Andrew Glover
Dan North, the veritable progenitor of behavior driven development (or BDD), recently blogged about unnecessary DRYness (meaning don’t repeat yourself) with respect to clarity of intent when it comes to testing (in generic terms of the word). Essentially, in the case of a JUnit test, for example, by utilizing a setUp method and possibly other helper methods, the test itself becomes somewhat cluttered– one must jump around the code to truly understand the intention of the test... more »

Hidden folders in OS X file dialogs
Posted by: Brian Pontarelli on 07/01/2008

Brian Pontarelli
Found a good shortcut for getting access to hidden folders in OS X file dialogs and the Finder. It requires some typing and it doesn’t auto-complete like Linux does, but it is better than nothing. Just hit Shift-Command-G to open the “Go To Folder” dialog and then type the path to the hidden file or folder. The path can be relative. Now, just need to figure out how to access hidden files from the Finder and file dialogs. more »

James Gosling
Posted by: Richard Monson-Haefel on 07/01/2008

Richard Monson-Haefel
I own most of my success to the Java Platform and therefor, in my opinion, to the team that developed Java - including James Gosling. I've always been in awe of James Gosling mostly because he is deemed "the father of Java" and has been the top guy in the Java industry for as long as I can remember (stretching back to my introduction to Java in 1995).My admiration for him is based on that fact that he invented a platform that was not only interesting and exciting but a platform that is... more »

Expert Panel at Agile Experience
Posted by: Neal Ford on 07/01/2008

Neal Ford
Last weekend, I spoke at the Agile Experience in Reston. It was a great conference, lots of interesting topics, and a different crowd than most technical conferences. Half the attendees were managers, and everyone was enthused about Agile development. The experience level with Agile was diverse too, so it was fun to get out-of-the-blue questions. My first talk was Real-World Agile, and I start that talk by soliciting the agenda from the crowd (I open up a text editor and make the group tell... more »

Least Common Denominators and Design
Posted by: Mike Levin on 07/01/2008

Mike Levin
GMail complains that the 44 Kbps internet dial up connection I'm using may be too slow. It suggests that I switch to HTML view. I reload the page and it finally renders adequately. My iPhone browser crashes regularly when I visit Ning sites. I am constantly reminded that a small percentage of consumers have fast connections and powerful computers. My point here is that there‘s a tradeoff we have to remember with our public-facing software and websites. When I am stuck... more »

Testing Anti-Patterns: Overspecification
Posted by: Jason Rudolph on 07/01/2008

Jason Rudolph
Tests increasingly serve multiple roles in today’s projects. They help us design APIs through test-driven development. They provide confidence that new changes aren’t breaking existing functionality. They offer an executable specification of the application. But can we ever get to a point where we have too much testing? Enough is Enough Consider the following test that you might come across in an application with a less-than-ideal test suite. (We’ll pick... more »

easyb 0.9 hits the streets
Posted by: Andrew Glover on 06/30/2008

Andrew Glover
The easyb team is pleased to announce the release of easyb 0.9, baby! The 0.9 release has: Numerous IntelliJ plug-in improvements The easyb plugin for IntelliJ can now be downloaded directly from within IntelliJ! See http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=2916 Various fixes and improvements addressed from issue tracking system Fixtures! More enhanced error reporting narrative support description support easyb supports capturing additional hip information... more »

Ruby in the Enterprise: eRubyCon
Posted by: Jared Richardson on 06/30/2008

Jared Richardson
For those of you who are wondering if Ruby is enterprise worthy, then eRubyCon is for you. The speaker list is a "Who's who" of Ruby development and a stellar slate for any conference. If you're into Ruby or Rails, I strongly encourage you to check out this event. eRubyCon.com more »

Official Groovy/Grails Support in NetBeans 6.5
Posted by: Vladimir Vivien on 06/30/2008

Vladimir Vivien
Judging from the list of features that will be included in NetBeans 6.5, Groovy and Grails will be officially supported by the NB team. From the wiki text, Groovy and Grails will be first-class citizen in NB65 with features that will include:- Editor support (code completion, color highlights, etc)- Two-way Java / Groovy class integration- Seamless Grail project support (support for all Grails artifacts and commands)- Jetty integration for development-time deployment/testing.It remains to... more »

JavaOne 2008: Design Patterns Reconsidered
Posted by: Alex Miller on 06/29/2008

Alex Miller
Looks like the JavaOne team now has most of the audio up from the JavaOne 2008 conference, including my talk Design Patterns Reconsidered. So, if you’re interested in checking it out: Watch (audio/slides) PDF MP3 I believe you do need to have a Sun Developer Network login. I’m still working up the nerve to listen to it myself. :) more »

Continuous Integration: Fewer Bugs, Less Work
Posted by: Jared Richardson on 06/29/2008

Jared Richardson
Jennette Mullaney was kind enough to attend my talk Continuous Integration, The Cornerstone of a Great Shop talk in Las Vegas. We spoke for a bit afterwards and she put it all together into a nice interview. Continuous integration reduces bugs, increases productivity Enjoy! more »

The weekly bag? June 27
Posted by: Andrew Glover on 06/29/2008

Andrew Glover
Agile Smells: Don’t Let This Happen To You!- I wonder how we went from “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools” to cataloging the manifold ways to practice Agile? Agile Versus Lean- Speaking of Agile, man, Martin’s got something to say. RSpec-1.1.4- Yeah, I’m a month late to this party; nevertheless, way to go team! Article: Best Practices for Model-Driven Software Development- Apparently, MDD “no longer belongs to the fringes of... more »

Agile IT Exchange Conference
Posted by: David Bock on 06/29/2008

David Bock
I just spent this weekend speaking at the Agile IT Exchange conference in Reston, VA. This was hosted by the same organization that hosts the No Fluff Just Stuff symposiums, but while those are geared more to developers, Agile IT was geared more towards managers. I speak 12–15 times a year at NFJS events, and probably the number one comment I hear back from the audience is “I wish my manager could see this stuff”. Well, this weekend, they did. the audience was... more »

The ?mismatch problem? in hiring
Posted by: Alex Miller on 06/28/2008

Alex Miller
Really great video here from Malcolm Gladwell about the mismatch problem in hiring. Specifically, many professions use various hiring criteria (draft combines in professional sports, certification in teaching, etc) to obtain some objective data for deciding which people to hire. Malcolm goes through a bunch of examples (sports, teachers, lawyers, pilots, police, politics) and gives examples of the many cases where quality in the profession has no correlation to the yardsticks used in... more »

Communication Channels & Cell Phones
Posted by: Neal Ford on 06/27/2008

Neal Ford
I noticed the other day that lots of states now ban talking on cell phones while driving, yet they don???t outlaw talking to a person sitting on the seat next to you. Why is that? I have a suspicion: talking to someone on a cell phone takes a lot more concentration. Many studies place accident rates for drunk drivers and cell-phone talkers evenly. The implication is that talking on your cell phone robs you of as much concentration as drinking!But my experience with software development... more »

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