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How to find the right balance in between functionality and technology

by Rafał Borowiec December 20, 2011 Agile software development
Thumbnail image for How to find the right balance in between functionality and technology The fundamental goal of each software developer is to build and deliver the right software that satisfies their customers. A software developer that wants to succeed, must be a professional focusing on a positive outcome of the project. He needs to find the right balance between building the right software and building the software right. [...]
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How to use Domain-Driven Design to better understand the business

by Łukasz Stępliński December 18, 2011 Agile software development
Thumbnail image for How to use Domain-Driven Design to better understand the business Domain-Driven Design is quite a new approach to model complex business applications. It helps all stakeholders involved in a software development project to find a common communication ground. It provides software developers with an approach to communicate in an understandable way with the business (domain) owners and vice versa. Reading a few articles and the [...]
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Managing software projects interactively using scrum

by Peter Horsten November 30, 2011 Best practices
Thumbnail image for Managing software projects interactively using scrum Too many software projects are not (fully) successful. Depending on the research source used, you will find that 30 up to 70% of the IT projects fail to some extend. In most cases this is due to the (project) management approach. Clients want to know what they get for a fixed budget. But we all [...]
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Key challenges in Agile implementations

by Pawel Olesiejuk November 28, 2011 Agile software development
Thumbnail image for Key challenges in Agile implementations Agile methodology was supposed to be a solution to solve all of our problems. But it looks like it’s not. Some issues appear when companies start to implement Agile in their organizations. A research has been done on seventeen companies using Agile methodology (People over processes: Key people challenges in Agile Development). Authors chose nine [...]
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How to get Lync working on Mac [updated]

by Peter Horsten October 21, 2011 Best practices
Thumbnail image for How to get Lync working on Mac [updated] Early September the good news started spreading among Microsoft Office fans who are for whatever reason using a Mac. Microsoft announced the release of Lync for Mac. Lync is Microsoft’s new integrated functionality for instant messaging, presence, conferencing and voice. Unfortunately, after installation I didn’t get it working. Today, I finally managed.
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Three pillars of Unit Tests

by Pawel Olesiejuk October 6, 2011 Agile software development
Thumbnail image for Three pillars of Unit Tests Ok, now we know what TDD is all about and how to do TDD. Really? Well, no. In fact we only know how TDD works, but TDD is about writing tests (to be more precise – unit tests). What should our tests look like? Here it comes…
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MVC3 Forms Authentication using strongly typed User Roles

by Pawel Olesiejuk September 30, 2011 ASP.Net MVC
Thumbnail image for MVC3 Forms Authentication using strongly typed User Roles We often need to authenticate users and, depending on their roles, give them access to specific areas. MVC3 gives you a such possibility by means of RolesAdapter. But using RolesAdapter isn’t easy and you have to use ‘magic strings’ when using Authorize attribute. Let’s find other solution for solving this issue.
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Pretty Time – timestamp formatting made easy

by Rafał Borowiec September 22, 2011 Best practices
It’s of the highest importance to present information in an understandable way. Users of applications shouldn’t waste their  valuable time figuring out the meaning of information. A great example is displaying date and time values to the user. Let’s assume you would like to show some operation took place just a couple of minutes ago, [...]
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Red, green, refactor cycle – smallest TDD iteration

by Pawel Olesiejuk September 13, 2011 Agile software development
Thumbnail image for Red, green, refactor cycle – smallest TDD iteration As I wrote before, TDD is a methodology. It requires a set of disciplines, and one of them is ‘red, green, refactor’. It is about writing test first, make it pass and then refactor the code. Sounds crazy? Let’s take a closer look.
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What does TDD mean?

by Pawel Olesiejuk August 29, 2011 Agile software development
Thumbnail image for What does TDD mean? Test Driven Development (TDD) is not about writing tests. Writing tests is writing tests, period. TDD is more than that, it’s a methodology.  It has started as a part of the agile methodology invented by Ken Beck called eXtreme Programming (we recommend Kent Beck’s book “Extreme Programming Explained”). The main idea of TDD is to [...]
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