Linkopedia February 2010
Published February 15th, 2010 Under Links | Leave a Comment
Blog Post: Mocking Mocking and Testing Outcomes.
Blog Post: Testing in the Data Center (Manufacturing No More)
Blog Post: Why Model Driven Software Development isn’t fast enough and how to fix it
Article: Using Agile Techniques to Pay Back Technical Debt
Article: Compare JavaScript Frameworks
Article: Looking Ahead to ASP.NET 4.0
Tool: BOUML – Open source UML and code generation
Video: Exploratory Testing: How to Test Software
Video: Benefits of Point Estimation
Video: Use a Continuous Integration Server with Hudson
Video: Extreme JavaScript Performance
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The 10 Best Software Development Conferences Videos of 2009
Published February 1st, 2010 Under Conferences | 2 Comments
You didn’t have the time or resources to travel last year and regret that you have missed some conferences? Now you can find a lot of complete conference sessions recording on the Web. My title has obviously a little bit of marketing twist, but I share with you a fair and diversified selection of excellent conferences presentations videos. Here is my list “in no particular order” as they say on TV. Read more
Linkopedia February 2009
Published February 17th, 2009 Under Links, Software Development | Leave a Comment
DevCreek is a community dedicated to improving software quality through the collection, analysis and sharing of project metrics.
DomainDrivenDesign.org is a open forum to share ideas and interact with other people interested in domain-driven design.
Apache Cayenne is an open source persistence framework providing object-relational mapping (ORM) and remoting services
Speed up your Web pages. Learn how you can make the browsing experience better for dial-up users by reducing loading times by as much as 80 percent, in some cases.
JavaScript Test Driven Development with JsUnit and JSMock. This article is a crash course in writing maintainable JavaScript.
The Role of Leadership in Software Development. In this video, Mary Poppendieck discusses of leadership roles in software development — what works, what doesn’t and why.
Practicing Testability in the Real World. This video presents a testability checklist that will ensure that core testability principles are considered while testing a particular feature.
Learning JavaFX. Robert Eckstein teaches you the fundamentals of the new JavaFX programming language, all in fifteen minutes or less!
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Ajax In Practice
Published August 18th, 2008 Under Books | Leave a Comment
This book by Dave Crane, Bear Bibeault and Jord Sonneveld aims to be of a second-generation Ajax book. It should go beyond just explaining the technology and explore in details the different client-side Ajax technologies and show what you can do with them. The target audience is a developer that has already a background of developing web applications and a basic knowledge of JavaScript. I can say that the book achieves its goals and provides practical concepts and code excerpts that can be readily used. For every topic that is discussed in the book, there is a detailed code example that shows how to use it in practice. I like also the fact that the specific goal of important lines are put in evidence in the code examples.
The book is divided in two parts. The first part contains four chapters that present the basic concepts of Ajax. After an introduction, it discusses the various communications techniques like Json or XML. A chapter is then dedicated to object-oriented JavaScript, that the authors present as a must to build scalable Ajax code. Finally, the book takes a closer look at the different JavaScript libraries (Prototype, Dojo and JQuery) used for Ajax applications.
The second part presents the various practices that could be used in client-side programming and are related to Ajax, either directly or indirectly: events, data entry and validation, navigation, drag-and-drop, usability, state management. Each topic is clearly explained in a dedicated chapter. A chapter is also dedicated to integrating outside API like Yahoo! or Google maps. A last chapter is dedicated to a sample mash-up application.
Source code and sample chapters for this book can be find on http://www.manning.com/crane2/