Agile Advert Is Back for Agile 2008
Published June 27th, 2008 Under Conferences, Humour | Leave a Comment
There is only a month for you to create your best (read: funniest/ most creative) video representing your experience with or just promoting enthusiasm for Agile development. Make sure to check out last year’s videos.
Learn more and upload here: http://www.agileadvert.org
Selling Software by the Pound
Published June 25th, 2008 Under Software Development | 1 Comment
In 2003, Methods & Tools published the article “ASP Tools for Software Development“, where ASP did not stand for Microsoft’s Active Server Pages, but for Application Service Providers. This was the “acronym of the day” for companies that were offering hosted software tools. Most of the companies mentioned in this article are still active today, but there is a new marketing label attached to their activity. The media prefer to speak about SaaS (Software as a Service) or give to this phenomenon the nickname “The Cloud”. Beyond the various names, there are some differences between the type of control you have on these external applications. SaaS is defined as a simple license for a specific hosted external application. The Cloud technological ambition is to have applications running on external virtual infrastructure while you keep the control about software and data. Other terms like “the grid” or “on-demand” are also associated to the idea of using software tools as a service instead of buying a product to achieve the same objectives. Read more
Summer 2008 Issue of Methods & Tools
Published June 23rd, 2008 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers, testers and project managers. Summer 2008 issue’s content:
* UML versus Domain-Specific Languages
* We Increment to Adapt, We Iterate to Improve
* Building Products with Acceptance TDD
* Getting and Keeping Control over your Project
60 pages of software development knowledge.
To download or read this issue go to http://www.methodsandtools.com/
Great Design Patterns Quick Reference Material
Published June 16th, 2008 Under Software Development | Leave a Comment
Architecture is an important asset for good programming and the notion of “pattern” is here to help us apply already trusted code architecture solutions to common problems.
Jason McDonald has done a wonderful job to group some of them in a document that should be useful to most software developers. Go to his blog to get your own copy.
New RIA Framework Performance Benchmark
Published June 6th, 2008 Under News, Software Development | Leave a Comment
Sean Christmann has released a new benchmark to understand the performance differences between Flex/Flash, Silverlight, and HTML/Javascript….
GUIMark is a benchmark test suite designed to compare the rendering systems of several popular UI runtimes. In general it should be able to give designers and developers a good indication of which technologies can draw complex interfaces at a smooth rate of motion. The test mostly addresses RIA technologies like Flash, Silverlight, HTML or Java, but was designed to be easily ported to any 2D GUI environment.