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Methods & Tools - February 2015

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*** Quote of the Month ***

The worrying thing about writing tests is that there are numerous accounts of people introducing tests into their development process and.. ending up with even more junk code to support than they had to begin with! Why? I guess, mainly because they lacked the knowledge and understanding needed to write good tests: tests, that is, that will be an asset, not a burden.

Source: Bad Tests, Good Tests, Tomek Kaczanowski

*** News ***

Software Development Industry News

EnterpriseDB Expands Postgres Plus to Support Developer Agility and DBA Control

Joyent Establishes Node.js Foundation

CloudBees Gets $23.5 Million in New Financing

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*** Jobs ***

Featured Jobs

Software Engineer, Cablevision, Bethpage, NY

Data Modeler, John Muir Health, Walnut Creek, CA

.Net Developer, NewGround, Chesterfield, MO

Software engineer Javascript / Node.js, Arrows Group, Hilversum, Netherlands

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*** Books ***

Help Work to Flow

In their book "Help Work to Flow", Samantha Laing and Karen Greaves have explored their working and coaching experience to collect 40 tips, techniques and games that should allow you to work in the state of flow, this situation where you are more productive.

Read the complete review of Help Work to Flow on our web site dedicated to software development books.

Help Work to Flow, Samantha Laing and Karen Greaves, Leanpub

*** Linkopedia ***

Software Development Linkopedia February 2015

Web site: Fundamental Modeling Concepts

Blog: The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming

Blog: WIP and Priorities: Hw to Get Fast and Focused!

Blog: Sacrificial Architecture

Blog: Give Us Back Our Testing

Article: Technical User Stories - What, When, and How?

Article: Fundamental Cloud Architectures

Article: JMeter Plugins

Article: Free Online Scrum Tools

Tools: Barkeep is a friendly code review system

Tools: Agileista is an online collaboration for distributed Scrum teams.

Video: The 5 Stages of Software Development

Video: Tuning Large Scale Java Platforms

Video: Building a Stronger Coding Culture

Video: Free Software Tests Are Better Than Free Bananas

Video: UX in an Agile Process

Find more interesting links on the software development tools web site, the software development articles web site or the software development videos web site.

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NorDevCon, February 27 2015, Norwich, UK

QCon London, March 2-6, 2015, London, UK
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Wearables TechCon, March 9-11 2015, Santa Clara, USA
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O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference, March 16-19 2015, Boston, USA
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Mini XP Day Benelux, April 3 2015, Mechelen, Belgium

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ProgSCon London, April 17 2015, London, UK
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Internet of Things, April 26 2015, Lund Sweden

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GOTO Chicago, May 11-15 2015, Chicago, USA

Romanian Testing Conference, May 14-15 2015, Cluj Napoca, Romania

At The Frontend, May 27 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark

Security Conf, May 28 2015, Stockholm Sweden

I T.A.K.E. Unconference, May 28-29 2015, Bucharest, Romania

Big Apple Scrum Day, June 1 2015, New York, USA
Call for proposal until February 28, 2015

Top Conf Bucharest, June 8-10 2015, Bucharest, Romania

GOTO Amsterdam, June 17-19 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Agile2015, August 3-7, 2015, Washington, D.C., USA

Agile on the Beach, September 3-4 2015, Falmouth, UK

Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October 12-14, Portland, USA
Call for Abstracts until April 10, 2015

Bosnia Agile Day 2015, October 17, Sarajevo, Bosnia

TopConf Tallinn, November 18-19 2015, Tallinn, Estonia

XP Days Benelux, December 3-4 2015, Mechelen, Belgium

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