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

Software Linkopedia September 2011

Published September 7th, 2011 Under Links | Leave a Comment

Web Site: Introduction to Databases – Stanford University Free Online Course

Blog: The 10 Minute Test Plan

Blog: A Checklist for a Distributed Retrospective

Blog: Appraisals and Agile Don’t Play Nicely

Article: Rational Unified Best Practices: A Primer for the Project Manager

Article: Defining Software Quality and Economic Value

Article: Tools and Techniques for .NET Code Profiling

Article: Scenarios for Load Testing

Tool: Sureassert UC – integrated Java unit testing solution for Eclipse

Tool: NDBGen – C# LINQ-to-SQL models and SQL installation script generator

Video: JUnit Tutorial

Video: Cloud Computing Economics

Video: Scrum Sprint Showcase

Find more interesting links on the software development resources directory, the software development tools directory, the software development articles directory, the software development blogs aggregator or the software development videos directory.

Code Refactoring Resources

Published August 29th, 2011 Under Software Development | 2 Comments

Martin Fowler defined refactoring as a ” disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior”. In the days of Agile development where code is delivered after one or two week cycles, you start quickly to deal with “legacy” code, what was know as “maintenance” for projects that had longer delivery time frames. Refactoring is mostly linked to code but the term is also widely used for every restructuring effort: database definition code, testing scripts, software architecture or development process. Read more

Agile Business Conference 2011, 4th – 6th October, London

Published August 25th, 2011 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

Methods & Tools is proud to have been chosen as media partner by the Agile Business Conference 2011 that will take place in London from 4th to 6th October 2011.

The Agile Business Conference 2011 is the major Agile conference for Europe providing a single Forum for everyone who is interested in the effective application of Agile. The theme for this year’s extended Conference focuses on the maturity and acceptability of Agile with keynotes and 4 tracks. The Conference provides a simple point of entry for an entire Agile audience, with the option for pre-registered attendees to attend selected Agile Training and Workshops from real-world experts on the first day.

For more information and registration, visit http://www.agileconference.org/

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