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
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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 …

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
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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.

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 …