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Methods & Tools - Text Edition - August 2010
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More than 2000 Tools Listed on SoftDevTools.com
Our software development tools directory has now categorized more than 2000 tools. From project management and unit testing tools to NOSQL databases, you can find tools used in every software development activity, as the 10'000 monthly visitors do, searching by programming language, running platforms or another of our classification criteria. If you are the committer of an open source project or the marketing manager of a commercial tool, do not hesitate to add your tool. It is free and you will be able to post press releases to communicate about new versions.
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Linkopedia June 2010
Blog: Patterns and Practices for Improving Personal Productivity, Time Management and Effectiveness
Blog: Earned Value v. Earned Schedule
Blog: A List of Coding Standard Websites
Humor: My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means
Article: jQuery Test-Driven Development
Article: Are We Headed to Abilene?
Tool: Flerry is a Flex-Java bridge for Adobe AIR
Tool: Coverlipse is an Eclipse plugin that visualizes the code coverage of JUnit Tests
Video: How to Cope with Communication Problems in an Agile Project?
Video Continuous Integration, Pipelines and Deployment
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*** Books ***
Reflections on Management
This book is composed of papers previously written by Watts Humphrey. The people and management aspects of software development are often neglected in books and this one is a good source to start thinking about them… and improving our practice. The book is structured in four parts: managing your projects, managing your teams, managing your boss and managing yourself. In each part, it presents both general principles and real life examples or stories taken from Watts Humphrey career. This makes the book very easy to read as we can connect the theory to situations that we have met in our professional life. Read More
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Mobile Application Stores, September 7 2010, Zurich, Switerland
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Lean & Kanban 2010 Europe, September 23-24 2010, Antwerp, Belgium
Software Testing Analysis & Review, September 26—October 1 2010, San Diego, USA
iPhone/iPad DevCon, September 27-29 2010, San Diego, USA
Iqnite Nordic, September 29-30 2010, Stockholm, Sweden
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Iqnite UK, October 4 2010, London, UK
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Agile Eastern Europe, October 8-9, Kyiv, Ukraine
Iqnite Austria, October 13 2010, Vienna, Austria
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Lean Enterprise Software and Systems, October 17-20 2010, Helsinki, Finland
Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October 18-20 2010, Portland, USA
Software Test Professionals Conference & Expo, October 19-21 2010, Las Vegas, USA
SPTechCon, October 20-22 2010, Boston, USA
Iqnite Australia, October 26-27 2010, Sidney, Australia
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Agile Development Practices East Conference, November 14-19 2010, Orlando, FL, USA
Devoxx 2010, November 15-19, Antwerp, Belgium
Scrum Day, November 16-17 2010, Berlin, Germany
iqnite South Africa, November 18, Johannesburg, South Africa
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XP Days Benelux, November 25-26 2010, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
ACCU Conference, April 13-16 2011, Oxford, UK - Call for Paper until September 26
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Methods & Tools is looking for open source tools articles
Methods & Tools has introduced this year a tool section in its PDF issues. I am therefore looking for short (3-4 pages, screenshots included) presentations articles of open source software development tools (JUnit for instance). If you are commiter to an open source project or working with such a tool and willing to present it to the readers of Methods & Tools, do not hesitate to contact me.
Methods & Tools Article Pipeline
In future issues, you will find articles on:
* Core Protocols
* Distributed Agile
* Source Code Analysis
* Decomposition of Projects
* Non-Functional Requirements: Do User Stories Really Help?
* Process Improvement, the Agile Way
* Testing Dojos
* Creating Type Specific Data Libraries to Drive Test Automation
* Junit Tool
* soapUI Tool
* Bromine Tool
* Agilefant Tool
* Camel Tool
* ServiceMix Tool
* Ant Tool
* Apache CXF Tool
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