Smells to Refactoring
Today I was browsing a site about Java. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not switching, but I found something interesting there. And the fact that the url was www.java.net made me go look. 😉...
Category: Agile
The agile workspace
If you pass by here on a regular basis, you might’ve noticed my affection for Agile based methodologies lately. I’m reading up quite a bit on both web and in my current favorite book. However,...
Painting a fence the Agile way
David Anderson nearly choked on his sandwich recently, because his wife said : “You know it really pays to be thorough. All that rework is really time consuming and it uses a lot of...
Trust is the Essence of Agile
A few years ago two colleagues and me were asked to help out in some project that wasn’t doing very well. They told us they needed some experts on software development. Before you can...
Modeling Artifacts
If you want to know about modeling and Agile modeling specifically, take a visit at Scott Ambler his site. He has put some effort in explaining Agile modeling and of much interest are the list...
Refactoring For Your Code Base
A few days ago I’ve watched a webcast by Brian Button on refactoring. For the most part, he introduces refactoring to the viewer and gives some good examples of why you should refactor and...
Test Driven Development with a Database
A lot of times you hear or read about not touching your database when (technically) unit testing your application. Some reasons were given, but I never really understood why. At most projects, a lot of...
Agile vs. RUP
At our company we have these meetings, where people from the same competence in a region come together to talk about all kinds of stuff, from business related to more fun related stuff. Because...
DevDays Day 2 : Agile Development
Because I was too late for the Indigo chat, I decided to meet up with friends at the Team System chat. It was, to my surprise, more about (MSF) Agile then about Team System....
Dennis is an independent consultant and software architect who loves building distributed systems and the challenges they bring. What he learns he tries to share via numerous articles, blogposts, presentations and workshops.
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