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Developer Panel - Key Questions in Middleware

In this virtual panel, recorded at the recent JBoss Virtual Experience, software engineers from the JBoss division at Red Hat address several key questions...

5 replies - 5023 views - 04/15/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Code Refactoring - Freaking Awesome

We have all gone back and looked at code we wrote in the past and thought "Wow, this is ugly.", or "wtf was I thinking?", or even...

12 replies - 11846 views - 01/16/09 by Mike Bernat in News

2008: A Developer's Retrospective

 I have been making New Year's resolutions for a long, long time. I don’t even remember when I actually started making them either. Yes, it has been so...

3 replies - 6286 views - 12/16/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Is Code Coverage Important?

How much code coverage is enough? Do you consider having 100% code coverage an uphill task? Based on whom you talk to, the reply you get varies considerably. I...

20 replies - 5546 views - 10/20/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Five Reasons Software Developers Hate Software Architects

I remember it well.

0 replies - 8684 views - 10/14/08 by nerdguru in Articles

Code Metrics in Minutes

One of the primary goals of every developer should be to prevent or drastically limit the number of bugs or defects from being introduced in their source code....

4 replies - 7361 views - 09/01/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Incremental Migration

Like any profession, software development has it's share of oft-forgotten activities that are usually ignored but have a habit of biting back at just the...

0 replies - 1996 views - 08/22/08 by martinfowler in News

A Theory of Everything for Software Development

If there's one thing that all software development experts agree on, it's that the other experts are not always right. There are so many points of view in our...

0 replies - 1348 views - 08/21/08 by jurgenappelo in News

I'm thinking of using agile software development - but should I use Lean software development instead?

This question is one I've run into a few times recently. It's not a question I can answer quickly as the question is based on a false premise about the...

0 replies - 1694 views - 08/19/08 by martinfowler in News

The Undercover Adventure (Part 5): Sliding sand consensus.

In my time here on the oil mine I have had a lot of time to think and observe and one thing is for certain, perspective on something makes a big difference in...

0 replies - 2139 views - 08/14/08 by AnneBotha in Articles

The Undercover Adventure (Part 4): Rabbits chasing running carrots.

I sighed once more as I read my email and with furrowed brow considered the end result of his email. It would not have proven to be so frustrating had this...

1 replies - 2368 views - 08/04/08 by AnneBotha in Articles

Agile adoption: Why isn't this stuff working?

Lately I've been hearing feedback from lots of different people that they've "adopted" agile and it's just not working for them. This always causes...

0 replies - 1164 views - 05/28/08 by Chris Spagnuolo in News