I have often wondered why it is so difficult for non-developers (management, sales people, customers, inexperienced developers etc.) to understand the mechanics of software development, its life-cycle and the related elements like for example the importance of code-base quality, refactoring, versioning, unit testing, agile development practices, requirements management, project-wide standards, creating a productive, open and [...]
Archive for June, 2007
June 28, 2007 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Books, Resources, Softskills, Software development, Tutorials
Filed under: Books, Resources, Softskills, Software development, Tutorials
If the following topics are of interest to you, you might want to listen to Software Engineering Radio: Scrum, Code Analysis, Product Line Engineering, Refactoring, Design By Contract, eXtreme Programming, Architecture, SOA, Enterprise Architecture, Agile Documentation, Development Processes, Error Handling, Concurrency, Resource Management. Goto: http://www.se-radio.net
Check these tools out: Goto Webdeveloper Toolbar: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/60?id=60 Goto Firebug: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/1843
Post about how to hire good programmers. Goto: http://www.artima.com/wbc/interprog.html
Info taken from the plugin download page: “ClearForest Gnosis is the cutting edge of real time semantic processing for the web. By evaluating the pages you read – as you read them – Gnosis immediately locates key information such as people, organizations, companies, products and geographies hidden within the text.” “By simply hovering over any [...]
Goto: http://www.manager-tools.com
In search for being able to include video and audio material in a wordpress blog I came across the WordPress Media Center plugin of Alex Rabe. It adds a menu item Manage/Media Center to your admin area. Check it out. Example: Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player. var so = new [...]
If you have some customer projects running on webservers (must be accessible to you via ssh) and you would like to regularly backup critical data like mySQL databases or filestructures this post might be useful for you. All you need is a linux box connected to the internet. (1) Take a look at rsnapshot: http://www.howtoforge.de/rsync_incremental_snapshot_backups [...]
Example: You are looking for instructions to install Debian Etch on your box. Search for ‘debian etch setup’. Goto: www.howtoforge.org
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