Software development

Windows 8 – first impressions

by Marcin Dembowski September 19, 2011 Microsoft
Thumbnail image for Windows 8 – first impressions It’s almost a week after the BUILD event began in Anaheim. Since that day, I finally had  some time to download and test the newest operating system by Microsoft (what else a developer can do on  weekends?). After Kamil’s introduction of Windows 8 let’s go further through the installation process and explore what’s interesting inside, [...]
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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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Native mobile app losing ground thanks to the web app

by Peter Horsten June 14, 2011 Best practices
Thumbnail image for Native mobile app losing ground thanks to the web app App Stores are doing well. Apple is earning decent money by providing it. But for how long? An increasing amount of publishers complains about the costly investment to support an increasing amount of mobile platforms. They prefer to move away from it. And why not? HTML5 has arrived and it proves to do well. Today’s [...]
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JEE6 – CDI and Conversation Scope

by Łukasz Stępliński June 8, 2011 Java
Thumbnail image for JEE6 – CDI and Conversation Scope Recently, we attended Adam Bien’s presentation concerning Java EE 6 technology. Inspired by Adam Bien we decided to describe one of the CDI features: conversational context lifecycle. With an example we will show you the advantages.
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What is your worst case scenario?

by Peter Horsten June 7, 2011 Software development
Thumbnail image for What is your worst case scenario? In life it’s impossible to predict everything, although we try really hard. When developing software we also predict the future usage of the system. Mostly, we think in best case scenarios, we design the happy flow. But nothing might be more important than exception handling. Too often the exceptions are not well thought through, causing [...]
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Java EE 6 leads to productivity with joy

by Rafał Borowiec May 17, 2011 Java
Thumbnail image for Java EE 6 leads to productivity with joy InfoShare 2011, the free IT and new media conference in Gdansk, is over. I was there for the first time, mostly because of the technological track, including Adam Bien’s “Java EE 6 And Best Practices With Nothing But Code – Live Hacking” and his workshop “Java EE 6 – Productivity With Joy!”. Bottom line conclusion: [...]
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Successful migration of our ERP/CRM system to Windows Azure

by Peter Horsten April 14, 2011 Azure
Thumbnail image for Successful migration of our ERP/CRM system to Windows Azure In general you won’t see us writing too much about how good we are. Hopefully, you will forgive me this blog post is an exception to that rule. After some hard work today we were informed Microsoft recognized us for our compatible application on Windows Azure Platform. After some great work by our developers they [...]
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Design your application with a tablet user in mind and be surprised

by Peter Horsten March 25, 2011 Agile software development
Thumbnail image for Design your application with a tablet user in mind and be surprised Please take one of your recent functional design discussions in mind. Do you remember what it looked like? Was it fun or long lasting and rather boring? Did the end result satisfy every participant? As you know such discussions can lead to very complex application designs, if you try to satisfy everybody’s needs. We know [...]
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Two Symfony Live videos every (web) developer must see

by Jakub Zalas March 19, 2011 Best practices
Few days ago videos from the Symfony Live conference in Paris were published. I have to say it was an excellent conference with many great talks and exceptional people. It not only covered Symfony or PHP topics but also more general things in the area of web development and best practices.
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