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	17 Articles found and displayed in this view. Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback, 3rd Edition - Chapter 2 - Scrum, Agile Practices, and Visual Studio Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, January 21, 2013 Quick ID: 1211083 The Future of Continuous Integration Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 Jan/Feb Release Date: Monday, December 10, 2012 Quick ID: 1301111 Continuous integration (CI) has stood as one of the core pillars of the movement to agile software development best practices during the past decade. Understanding Dependency Injection and Those Pesky Containers Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Sep/Oct Release Date: Thursday, August 16, 2012 Quick ID: 1210031 We seem to be an industry enamored with buzz words. Even though XmlHttpRequest has been around since the mid-90s, mainstream programmers didn’t give it a second thought until someone attached the term AJAX to it. The same is true for the never-ending quest to put as many different words as we can in front of “driven-development.” Another term that hit the scene in recent years is dependency injection. Post Mortem: Developing the OSS Project AutoMapper Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 May/Jun Release Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011 Quick ID: 1105041 Jimmy explores what went right and what went wrong with version 1.0 of AutoMapper. Git for Subversion Users Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 May/Jun Release Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011 Quick ID: 1105101 Git has some similarities to Subversion, but it’s in the differences that Git shines. Derick looks at some of the features that Git provides, for which Subversion has no equivalent. POCO Support Comes to Entity Framework 4 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 22, 2010 Quick ID: 1011121 When Microsoft first released the Entity Framework, agile developers roundly criticized it. These developers hold the tenets of domain-driven development and testability very high. The classes generated from the Entity Data Model (EDM) are very tightly bound to the Entity Framework APIs by either inheriting from the EntityObject or implement interfaces that allow the classes to participate in change tracking and relationship management. Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition - Chapter 2 Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Sunday, July 11, 2010 Quick ID: 100153 “This book excerpt is from Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition, authored by Lyssa Adkins, published by Pearson/Addison-Wesley Professional, May 2010, ISBN 0321637704, Copyright 2010 Pearson Education Inc. For a full Table of Contents: www.informit.com/title/0321637704” Jumpstart Your Project Management Skills Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, May 07, 2010 Quick ID: 1006031 Your manager just dropped into your office and said, “We have a very important, new assignment with a limited budget and tight schedule. I am assigning you to be the project manager. Good luck.”Your manager turns and leaves your office. After your heart rate subsides, you start to think about your new assignment. How shall I proceed? What tools will I use? What are my deliverables? One of the most challenging roles in the Information Technology industry is that of Project Manager (PM). PMs are delegated a great deal of responsibility but with often little authority. In this article, you will learn valuable skills and tools that you can apply to become a good project manager and add value to your company. Nerd Dinner on Rails Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, May 07, 2010 Quick ID: 1006071 It is often said that ASP.NET MVC was inspired by Rails. What better way to test that assertion than by writing the Nerd Dinner ASP.NET MVC application in Rails? In this article, I’ll take you through the steps I used to get Nerd Dinner up and running in Rails. A few points to keep in mind: Chapter 11 - Inspect and Adapt Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, March 08, 2010 Quick ID: 100073 “This chapter excerpt is from the book, Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum”, authored by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, published by Addison-Wesley Professional, January 26, 2010, ISBN 0321636406, Copyright 2010 by Pearson Education, Inc. For a full Table of Contents, please visit the publisher site: www.informit.com/title/0321636406 S.O.L.I.D. Software Development, One Step at a Time Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 11, 2009 Quick ID: 1001061 Derick outlines how to achieve the benefits of low coupling, high cohesion, and strong encapsulation. He also shows how the five S.O.L.I.D. design principles can get you there.Most professional software developers understand the academic definitions of coupling, cohesion, and encapsulation.However, many developers do not understand how to achieve the benefits of low coupling, high cohesion and strong encapsulation, as outlined in this article. Fortunately, others have created stepping stones that lead to these goals, resulting in software that is easier to read, easier to understand and easier to change. In this article series, I will define three of the primary object-oriented principles and show how to reach them through the five S.O.L.I.D. design principles. Post Mortem Web Project Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 11, 2009 Quick ID: 1001091 First Premier Bankcard (www.firstpremier.com) is the 10th largest issuer of Visa and MasterCard credit cards in the United States.First Premier employs multiple thousands of people spread across the state of South Dakota. A major percentage of the employees at First Premier work in call-center operations helping people apply for credit cards. Introducing Advanced Code Contracts with the Entity Framework and Pex Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 11, 2009 Quick ID: 1001101 Martin introduces Design by Contract and Code Contracts, and gives you a sneak preview of Pex—Microsoft’s new test-suite generator. Along the way, he will show you how to add contracts to ADO.NET entities and some interesting coding strategies, good practices, and pitfalls you may encounter while making a deal with your code.With Code Contracts, Microsoft delivers its own flavor of Design by Contract for the .NET Framework. But wait, what is this thing sometimes called Contract-First Development? How will it change the way you develop software and write your unit tests? And first and foremost, how do you use Code Contracts efficiently?In this article, I will introduce Design by Contract and Code Contracts, as well as give you a sneak preview of Pex-Microsoft’s new test-suite generator. Along the way, I will show you how to add contracts to ADO.NET entities and some interesting coding strategies, good practices, and pitfalls you may encounter while making a deal with your code. Introduction to Scrum Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, April 18, 2008 Quick ID: 0805051 Scrum is an agile software development process to manage software projects. Scrum is based on three simple principles: visible progress, constant inspection, and adaptation. With Scrum, teams use an empirical approach to adapt to changing requirements and priorities. Teams using Scrum focus on delivering working software to their customers on a frequent basis. Managing an Agile Software Project Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, April 18, 2008 Quick ID: 0805041 Everything right or wrong with a software project is management’s fault.Either management staffed the right people or the wrong people. Management was absent or involved. Management is hard, and there are numerous factors that can cause success or failure of a project. In the best situation you have great people who do great work. A software manager can even succeed despite themselves if they happen to staff a top-notch team even though the managers, themselves, might not be very competent. The success that a top-notch team achieves is still the manager’s fault. Failure, however, is harder to blame on the team because a manager must be able to solve problems as they come along. This article will focus on tips and knowledge to use when managing an agile software project. It’s an Agile World Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 28, 2007 Quick ID: 0801011 Jan/Feb 08 Editorial by Rod Paddock eXtreme .NET Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - May/Jun Release Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 Quick ID: 0505101 Learn how to use XP (eXtreme Programming) techniques to improve the way you deliver softwareIn my book, "eXtreme .NET," I introduce a team of developers who are learning how to improve their ability to deliver great software. In this article, you'll follow this team as they learn about a new tool to help them develop software solutions using the .NET Framework. The tool they are going to explore is called Cruise Control and it helps the team continuously integrate their code.