Software Development Conferences September 2011

Published September 26th, 2011 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

Here is a list of software development related conferences and events that will take place in the coming weeks and that have media partnerships with the Methods & Tools software development magazine:

STARWEST 2011, October 2-7 2011, Anaheim, USA

GOTO Amsterdam , October 13-14 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Android DevCon, November 6-9 2011, San Francisco, USA

Better Software Conference East, November 6–11 2011, Orlando, USA

Agile Development Practices East, November 6–11 2011, Orlando, USA

GOTO Prague, November 22-24 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

XP Day Benelux, December 1-2 2011, Mechelen, Belgium

Find a more complete lis of upcoming software development conferences

Retrospectives, Standards, User Experience and HTML5 in the Fall 2011 issue of Methods & Tools

Published September 20th, 2011 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment

Methods & Tools – the free magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Fall 2011 issue with the following articles that focuses mainly on user interface and project management practices:
* Dialogue Sheets for Scrum Retrospectives – Helping Scrum Improvement
* Using Models and Standards – Tools for Software Processes
* The Psychology of UX – Understand your Users
* HTML5 for Rich Web Enterprise Applications – What Does HTML5 Brings to the Web?
* Gradle – a revolutionary Groovy based build tool
* Saros – an Eclipse plug-in for Distributed Programming
* StarUML – an Open Source UML tool

50 pages of software development knowledge that you can freely download from http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?fall11

Documenting Software Architectures

Published September 12th, 2011 Under Books | Leave a Comment

You have more chances to like a book on documenting software architectures when the authors know how to write and this is the case for this one. It starts by explaining the concepts of architecture views and styles. A second part discusses in a more detailed fashion the process of documenting architecture. I think that this book achieve its objective which is to answer the following question: “How do you document an architecture so that others can successfully use it, maintain it, and build a system from it?”. I will recommend this book to every software developers.

Read the complete review of Documenting Software Architectures

Reference: “Documenting Software Architectures”, Paul Clements & al., Addison-Wesley, 278 pages, IBSN 978-0-321-55268-6

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