design team, anyway? With the looming problem of manycore facing developers now and certainly in the near future (to a much greater extent – programming for 80 core (asymmetric to boot) processors, anyone?). I thought it was time to find out what Anders et al are working on to get …
The era of the big, heavy, transactionally-oriented client/server topology, as best described by the J2EE Specification and Blueprints document, seems to be over. The era of the lightweight, transactionally-oriented client/server topology seems to be at its zenith. Is this really where we want to be when building enterprise systems? And …
The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in New York on August 23 and 24, 2007. Presentation on Functional Testing Swing Applications with Frankenstein, an Open Source testing tool that he co-authored. Vivek Prahlad is a Senior Developer at ThoughtWorks. He currently heads the Innovation and Open Source related …
A 10 Minute introduction to test driven development and unit testing using NUnit and C#. Produced as part of the Readify Developer Network. Aditional resource: Improving Application Quality Using Test-Driven Development (TDD) Demystifying Extreme Programming: Test-driven programming Bug Busters – Test Driven Development in .NET
Scrum is the new, hot buzzword when it comes to process these days. Grace Francisco talks over lunch with Ellie Powers, Program Manager with the Hotmail team to find out more about Scrum and its benefits. Hear her real world feedback on using it in projects and the challenges you …
I caught up with the venerable Erik Meijer recently to discuss functional programming languages, academic versus real-world application of functional programming languages (there are very good reasons why people don’t program Windows applications in, say, Haskell…) and, well, Erik. Why does Erik work here? What’s his history? Of course, as …