http://architects.dzone.com/news/current en http://architects.dzone.com/news/breaking-brookss-law Fred Brooks’s law of adding manpower to a late software project makes it later is one most of us have tried to prove wrong... and failed! I was at Agile 2008 and saw an interesting session, “Breaking Brooks’s Law” from Menlo Innovations, a Michigan based Java development company. They claimed to disprove this law and demonstrated their working environment and techniques that allowed them... http://architects.dzone.com/news/breaking-brookss-law#comments agile Fred Brooks Menlo Innovations xp http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/5414 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:07:14 -0400 432 0 Rich Sharpe http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-296251.jpg Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:07:14 -0400 Rich Sharpe 5414 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/whats-best-way-handle-exceptio It seems, given my limited experience, that handling exceptions depends entirely on the context in which you are developing. As a fan of "rules" that can be applied to different scenarios I wanted to hit you guys up and see what the rules-of-thumb were with regards to exception handling.Some approaches to exception handling sort of speak for them self, for example, swallowing exceptions... http://architects.dzone.com/news/whats-best-way-handle-exceptio#comments Java best practices Blueprints exceptions howto java Patterns http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/5306 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:36:05 -0400 2151 16 rkalla http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-40277.jpg Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:36:05 -0400 rkalla 5306 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/the-great-gwt-roundup Over the past two months or so we here at the web builder zone, thanks to Manning Publishing, have been publishing a comprehensive series on GWT. We recently published the last in the series and I thought that it would be a good idea to create a sort of index of all of these articles. http://architects.dzone.com/news/the-great-gwt-roundup#comments Server-side Client-side Google Web Toolkit RIA HTML & XHTML Frameworks Ajax & Scripting http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/5212 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:25:28 -0400 4955 0 Volume4 http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-71517.jpg Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:25:28 -0400 Volume4 5212 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/more-suggestions-for-suturing- In turning this problem over in my mind, a few quick suggestions keep holding sway, then a raft of larger potential implications continue to haunt the problem. On the suggestion side, of course, when a framework is doing something you don‘t want it to do, the simplest solution is to say it needs to be rearchitected to expose that particular part of its functioning to pluggable replacement.... http://architects.dzone.com/news/more-suggestions-for-suturing-#comments Client-side JSF Language Disection Suggestions User Interface Frameworks http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/5203 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:51:56 -0400 1574 1 deconcoder http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-202224.jpg Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:51:56 -0400 deconcoder 5203 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/qa-with-rod-johnson-over-sprin This is the content of a Q&A I did with Rod Johnson, concerning the uproar over Spring's announced changes in their maintenance release publication. Hopefully, this clears up not only what's going on, but why. http://architects.dzone.com/news/qa-with-rod-johnson-over-sprin#comments Java Server-side Apache Licensing spring Frameworks Commercial Non-commercial Open Source http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/5188 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:26:32 -0400 5368 54 jo74315 http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-75369.gif Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:26:32 -0400 jo74315 5188 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/are-data-warehouses-dinosaurs As anybody that follows my blog knows, I am not a fan of vertical scaling. I don't like solutions that can only be implemented in a single address and storage space. Unfortunately, there are analytical problems that need a holistic view of data. This is very typical of data warehousing applications. As a result, data warehouses are expensive, often out of the reach of smaller organizations. But... http://architects.dzone.com/news/are-data-warehouses-dinosaurs#comments Architecture Architecture Database engineering performance Scalability services Performance Interoperability http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/5156 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:57:13 -0400 626 0 driveawedge http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-326832.jpg Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:57:13 -0400 driveawedge 5156 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/software-rhythm-part-3-end-gam I define the end-game as everything between “feature-complete” and release. After all features are complete, the primary activities are integration, bug-fixing, testing, and, documentation. (Note: This is the final part of the Software Rhythm series, the other parts being Software Rhythm Part 1: The Opening and Software Rhythm Part 2: Mid-Game.) http://architects.dzone.com/news/software-rhythm-part-3-end-gam#comments http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/5095 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:25:22 -0400 1100 2 puredanger http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-214988.jpg Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:25:22 -0400 puredanger 5095 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/software-rhythm-part-2-the-ope The Mid-Game is where the rubber hits the road. Your primary activities will be writing code and writing tests. I’ll let you decide which order to write them in, as long as you write them both. (Note: This is part two of the Software Rhythm series.) http://architects.dzone.com/news/software-rhythm-part-2-the-ope#comments http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4974 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:38:40 -0400 1131 0 puredanger http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-214988.jpg Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:38:40 -0400 puredanger 4974 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/software-rhythm-part-1-the-ope I’ve been thinking about doing a series of posts on this for a while. For some reason I’m inspired to write it now. I’ve been involved in a number of software companies and projects of a variety of shapes and sizes but I find there is a similar rhythm across them all. I’m going to divide the software release cycle into three phases and write one post on each. The three parts (named after... http://architects.dzone.com/news/software-rhythm-part-1-the-ope#comments Java Architecture Infrastructure Patterns http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4920 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:43:13 -0400 2751 1 puredanger http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-214988.jpg Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:43:13 -0400 puredanger 4920 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/not-everyone-has-same-definiti Years ago I had an employee, let's call him Vanya (not the real name). He was struggling a bit so I was watching his work closely. Every week we discussed what he needed to get done the next week and what he had done the previous week. I kept a list of the work items he needed to complete and checked them off when he was done with each. For one particular work item which was testing a... http://architects.dzone.com/news/not-everyone-has-same-definiti#comments Project Mgmt. Agile http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4905 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:52:24 -0400 3052 1 steve.rowe http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-332436.jpg Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:52:24 -0400 steve.rowe 4905 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/secretaries-make-best-scrummas Okay... so my writing is slowing down again. http://architects.dzone.com/news/secretaries-make-best-scrummas#comments agile development scrum Project Mgmt. Agile http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4875 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:32:53 -0400 2229 0 mcottmeyer http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-329138.jpg Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:32:53 -0400 mcottmeyer 4875 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/agile-project-status-reporting A little while ago I wrote about agile project management and how agile http://architects.dzone.com/news/agile-project-status-reporting#comments agile project management reporting Reporting Project Mgmt. Agile http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4805 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:04:30 -0400 1076 0 kswaters http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-222612.jpg Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:04:30 -0400 kswaters 4805 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/publish-mondayusing-rest-along Following my latest post on evolving the architecture Dru asked me for more details on our RESTful control channels. For one you can take a look at slide 25 of my presentation on REST which talks about the Sessions resource. The session resource returns an AtomPub feed of the current active sessions and then if you follow a http://architects.dzone.com/news/publish-mondayusing-rest-along#comments REST SOA Software Architecture http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4793 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:18:26 -0400 971 0 arnonrgo http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-290666.jpg Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:18:26 -0400 arnonrgo 4793 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/lean-software-development While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to deliver software.Stories http://architects.dzone.com/news/lean-software-development#comments agile development lean development process Project Mgmt. Agile http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4715 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:25:11 -0400 3165 0 jaycfields http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-246163.jpg Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:25:11 -0400 jaycfields 4715 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/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 wrong moment. One of these is data migration.Most new software projects involve data that's lived somewhere else and now needs to be moved into the new system once it's live. A system replacement might have to move all the old data, new ... http://architects.dzone.com/news/incremental-migration#comments agile Data migration Deployment Opinions Build Automation Agile http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4658 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:10:00 -0400 600 0 martinfowler http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-323432.jpg Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:10:00 -0400 martinfowler 4658 at http://architects.dzone.com