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CODA: What Lies at Agile’s Heart
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John Petersen
Last updated: Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2023 - September/October
John takes a look at the history of Agile development and explores the difference between the process and the result. John encourages Agile practitioners to delve into the essence of Agile beyond the Manifesto to fully grasp its heart.
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Test Your REST APIs Using Insomnia REST Client
By:
Joydip Kanjilal
Last updated: Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2021 - July/August
APIs are everywhere! Joydip shows you how to take advantage of them using a new, free, cross-platform desktop framework, Insomnia, with its user-friendly interface and sophisticated features.
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Introduction to Containerization Using Docker
By:
Wei-Meng Lee
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2021 - March/April
Wei-Meng explains how Docker Engine replaces virtual machines with containers to host the apps and libraries you need, completely independent of which OS you’re using. Docker is written to run natively on the Linux platform. If you're using Windows or Mac OS, Docker creates a Linux virtual machine, which itself hosts the containers.
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Azure Tools for .NET in Visual Studio 2019
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0
Overview of how to use Visual Studio 2019 to consume Azure services from a .NET app and deploy your app to Azure using the revamped Connected Services experience. Get started using Connected Services to add service dependencies to your application.
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Immutability in C#
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Last updated: Thursday, April 1, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - May/June
If your application uses multi-threading, immutability should be part of it. John covers how to enforce and work with immutable objects, despite C#’s lack of native support for them.
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Part 4: The Tenets of UAT
By:
Rod Paddock
Last updated: Thursday, December 16, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - March/April
Rod's big project is drawing to a close, and it's time to consider User Acceptance Testing.
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Yes, User Prompts and Unit Tests Can Co-Exist
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Last updated: Friday, April 2, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - March/April
If you thought that pages and dialogs that need a response from a user couldn’t be unit tested, John will show you how it’s done using dependency inversion.
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10 Reasons Why Unit Testing Matters
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Last updated: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - January/February
If you’ve ever argued with management about how unit testing is beneficial, speeds up the process in the long run, and makes the software work better, you’ll recognize John’s point of view. If you haven’t (yet) had the argument, you’ll want to have this article handy.
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Part 3: Merrily We Roll Along
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Last updated: Thursday, December 16, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - January/February
Rod continues the tale of an enormous conversion project.
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Act II
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Last updated: Saturday, December 18, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - November/December
Rod's project continues and he gives us some good advice about managing a team.
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Building a .NET IDE with JetBrains Rider
By:
Chris Woodruff,
Maarten Balliauw
Last updated: Friday, April 16, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - November/December
If you’ve been developing IDEs in .NET, you’ve probably heard about JetBrains’ Rider. Chris and Maarten show you that the time is right to dive in.
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Docker
By:
Ted Neward
Last updated: Monday, April 26, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - May/June
Ted explores this great open-source tool that performs OS-level virtualization and helps your system recognize changes in code.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Continuous Integration
By:
Geoff Callaghan
Last updated: Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - January/February
Continuous Integration might seem like a lot of cooks stirring the same pot, but Geoff shows us how it’s more like a community of mentors.
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Improving Code Quality with Unit Tests
By:
Keith Pijanowski
Last updated: Thursday, May 13, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - September/October
Insufficient testing can lead to devastating results. Find out what you can do to minimize outages as Keith explores unit testing using a Python tool called Coverage.py.
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What’s New in Visual Studio 2017
By:
Markus Egger
Last updated: Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - May/June
It’s so new that the dust is still settling, and VS2017 was worth the wait. Markus explores the ins and outs of his favorite new features.
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How to Know Your Team is Productive and Delivering Quality
By:
Jeffrey Palermo (Clear Measure)
Last updated: Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - March/April
Jeffrey takes a look at the state of the industry and comes up with some interesting ways to measure efficiency and accuracy.
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Improve Code Quality Using Test Coverage
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - January/February
Every system needs to be tested before being set loose on an unsuspecting public. Keith uses Coverage.py to figure out how much information about code is enough, and what kinds of statistics and measurements can make you confident that your work will endure whatever a user throws at it.
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DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Made for a Cloud World
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Last updated: Thursday, June 24, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - March/April
Jeffrey gives us an overview and demonstration of a continuous delivery environment and shows us some great tools along the way. Using integrated development and operations, he gets the most out of cloud technologies.
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From MSTest to xUnit, Visual Studio, MSBuild, and TFS Integration
By:
Punit Ganshani
Last updated: Monday, June 28, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - January/February
Punit explores the necessary detail of testing and a useful collection of tools that you can employ. His advice ensures not only that your code runs as designed, but that the testing process is as painless as possible.
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Z-Wave Powered Build Status Lights
By:
Eric Anderson
Last updated: Monday, July 12, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2015 - July/August
Everyone’s familiar with the status lights that movie-makers think indicate that a computer (or bank of computers) is thinking. Eric tells us how to use real status lights to indicate failure and success—and progress—of your apps using Z-Wave.
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Node.js Best Practices
By:
Ben Coe
Last updated: Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - July/August
You might have heard about Node.js and always wanted to try it. With Ben’s guidance, you can get a simple Node.js app up and running, and learn about some other useful tools as you go.
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To MongoDB, or Not to MongoDB
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Last updated: Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2013 - September/October
When I started my company Attachments.me three years ago, NoSQL was a hot topic. Advocates preached impressive benefits:
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The Future of Continuous Integration
By:
Pablo Santos
Last updated: Thursday, November 30, 2023
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2013 - January/February
Continuous integration (CI) has stood as one of the core pillars of the movement to agile software development best practices during the past decade.
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Understanding Dependency Injection and Those Pesky Containers
By:
Miguel Castro
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2012 - September/October
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.
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Git for Subversion Users
By:
Derick Bailey
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - May/June
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.
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Post Mortem: Developing the OSS Project AutoMapper
By:
Bogard, Jimmy
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - May/June
Jimmy explores what went right and what went wrong with version 1.0 of AutoMapper.
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POCO Support Comes to Entity Framework 4
By:
Julie Lerman
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - November/December
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.
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Jumpstart Your Project Management Skills
By:
Paul Sheriff
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - May/June
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.
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Nerd Dinner on Rails
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - May/June
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:
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Introducing Advanced Code Contracts with the Entity Framework and Pex
By:
Martin Lapierre (DevInstinct)
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - January/February
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.
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Post Mortem Web Project
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Last updated: Thursday, December 16, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - January/February
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.
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S.O.L.I.D. Software Development, One Step at a Time
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - January/February
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.
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Introduction to Scrum
By:
Correa, Hector
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - May/June
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.
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Managing an Agile Software Project
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Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - May/June
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.
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It’s an Agile World
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Last updated: Thursday, December 16, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - January/February
Jan/Feb 08 Editorial by Rod Paddock
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Adaptive Leadership Chapter 3: Deliver a Continuous Flow of Value
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts, Newsletters
The agile software movement has now been around for a full decade. As coauthor of the original Agile Manifesto, Jim Highsmith has been at its heart since the beginning. He's spent the past decade helping hundreds of organizations transition to agile/lean. When it comes to agile, he's seen it all–in a variety of industries, worldwide. Now, in Adaptive Leadership, he has compiled, updated, and extended his best writings about agile and lean methods for a management audience. Highsmith doesn't just reveal what’s working and what isn't; he offers a powerful new vision for extending agility across the enterprise. Drawing on what's been learned in application development, this guide shows how to use adaptive leadership techniques to transform the way you deliver complete solutions, whatever form they take. You'll learn how enterprise agility can enable the ambitious organizational missions that matter most; how leaders can deliver a continuous stream of value; how to think disruptively about opportunities, and how to respond quickly by creating more adaptive, innovative organizations.
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Agile Legacy System Analysis and Integration Modeling
Last updated: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts, Newsletters
Most systems do not exist in isolation, instead they must interact with other systems in some fashion. Furthermore, there is very little "greenfield" development where you build a new system from scratch, instead the vast majority of software development is more along the lines of "brownfield" efforts where you improve upon an existing system(s). When you are building a system you must identify the potential interactions it will have with other existing computing assets, and identify what you will build upon, to reuse those legacy assets effectively. The documentation which describes how to interface to an external system is referred to as a contract model in Agile Modeling. If the contract model(s) exist, and are up-to-date, then you should consider yourself lucky. In many organizations legacy systems are poorly documented, if documented at all, leaving it up to the first team to come along to update the documentation at least to the level at which they require it. This effort is often referred to as "legacy system analysis".
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Chapter 1: Whole Teams
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts, Newsletters
When agile teams don’t get immediate results, it’s tempting for them to fall back into old habits that make success even less likely. In Being Agile, Leslie Ekas and Scott Will present eleven powerful techniques for rapidly gaining substantial value from agile, making agile methods stick, and launching a “virtuous circle” of continuous improvement. Drawing on their experience helping more than 100 teams transition to agile, the authors review its key principles, identify corresponding practices, and offer breakthrough approaches for implementing them. Using their techniques, you can break typical waterfall patterns and go beyond merely “doing agile” to actually thinking and being agile.
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Chapter 11: Inspect and Adapt
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts
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
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Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition - Chapter 2
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: Book Excerpts
“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”
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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
Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Published in: Book Excerpts
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eXtreme .NET
By:
Roodyn, Neil
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2005 - May/June
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.
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