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January 1st, 2018

What is agile methodology? Modern software development explained

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Every software development organization today seems to practice the agile software development methodology, or a version of it. Or at least they believe they do. Whether you are new to application development or learned about software development decades ago using the waterfall software development methodology, today your work is at least influenced by the agile methodology.

But what exactly is agile methodology, and how should it be practiced in software development?

Agile was formally launched in 2001 when 17 technologists … Read the rest

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December 18th, 2017

How to excel in agile software development

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If you are leading or participating in an agile development process and have selected an agile model like the scrum methodology, you have a fundamental process to help align product owners with customer needs and teams on delivering results. You have the team’s responsibilities outlined, a meeting structure defined and scheduled, and an agile collaboration tool to manage the backlog.

All this structure, process, and collaboration helps teams of any kind execute. In fact, agile practices are applied to … Read the rest

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November 29th, 2017

What are microservices? Lightweight software development explained

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You’re sitting on hundreds of thousands of lines of legacy C++. Oh, who are we trying to kid? It’s millions of lines of Vectran, a short-lived Fortran variant created by IBM in the 1970s. But, hey, if it ain’t broke, right? Except it is broken. Any time someone tries to add a feature, the thing breaks. Even trying to fix bugs creates more bugs. But if you just don’t touch it, it keeps on working.

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November 20th, 2017

How to improve your scrum master skills

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If you’ve been a scrum master for some time, you have learned some of the practices that make teams successful:

  • You know how to help teams commit and deliver results at the end of sprints.
  • You handle blocks so that they aren’t impediments to the team completing more difficult user stories.
  • You know how to run the fundamental meetings including commitment, standups, demos, and retrospectives.

You also have developed some strategies to work with product owners:

  • You help them groom
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November 1st, 2017

Stack Overflow reveals the most-disliked programming languages

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When it comes to which languages developers like and dislike, Stack Overflow has some insight. Based on the languages developers tagged as those they would not like to work with in their Stack Overflow Jobs profiles, the company has found that Perl, Delphi, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and PHP are the most disliked programming languages, while R, Kotlin, TypeScript, and Rust are the least disliked.

Stack Overflow, which provides an online community for developers, studied the popularity of languages … Read the rest

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October 10th, 2017

API-driven development with OpenAPI and Swagger

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While you were getting your coffee, Java application development changed–again.

In a world driven by rapid change and innovation, it’s ironic that APIs are making a comeback. Like the coding equivalent of New York City’s subway system in the age of autonomous cars, APIs are old tech–ancient but indispensable. What’s interesting is how this invisible, everyday IT architecture is being re-envisioned and used in current technology trends.

While APIs are everywhere, they’ve become especially prominent in their … Read the rest

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August 31st, 2017

Jenkins Blue Ocean UI to provide code quality insights

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Blue Ocean, the new user interface for the popular Jenkins continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, will begin incorporating insights into code quality trends and static analyses, under an improvement plan detailed this week by the project’s creator.

The goal is to improve the developer’s visibility into the health of software projects, Blue Ocean creator James Dumay, director of project management at Jenkins technology vendor CloudBees, said. Plans also call for expanding the capabilities of Blue Ocean’s visual … Read the rest

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August 24th, 2017

How devops tools accelerate software delivery

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Once upon a time, there was a developer who needed to write code against a database. So he asked the database administrator for access to the production database.

“Oh, dear me, no,” said the DBA. “You can’t touch our data. You need your own database. Ask operations.”

“Oh, dear me, no,” said the operations manager. “We don’t have a spare Oracle license, and it would take six months to get you that and the server on which to run it. … Read the rest

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July 6th, 2017

Luna brings visual development to functional programming

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Described by the creators as a developer’s whiteboard “on steroids,” the Luna functional language promises to enable application assembly by clicking and dragging visual elements together.

Expected to be released as open source when Luna reaches beta, its compiler will produce native code for the developer’s choice of Linux, MacOS, Windows, or JavaScript. The team behind Luna is seeking candidates for a private alpha release.

Luna’s creators argue that because developers typically start sketching components and dependencies on a … Read the rest

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June 8th, 2017

Why you should use microservices

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So you’re sitting on hundreds of thousands of lines of legacy C++. Oh, who are we trying to kid? It’s millions of lines of Vectran, a short-lived Fortran variant created by IBM in the ’70s. But hey, if it ain’t broke, right?

Except it is broken. Anytime someone tries to add a feature, the thing breaks. Even trying to fix bugs creates more bugs. But if you just don’t touch it, it keeps on working.

The problem is that innovation … Read the rest

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