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Methods & Tools - Text Edition - January 2012

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*** Numbers ***

Project Management Tool Survey

Our current poll: Does your project use a software tool to plan, estimate and track project activities? Go to our web site to participate and to see intermediate results.

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*** Linkopedia ***

Software Linkopedia January 2012

Web Site: Understanding JavaScript OOP

Web Site: Cherry Pop – Development Diary

Web Site: Mikado Method

Blog: Diversity Imbalance

Blog: Kicking ass together: How to improve coding skills as a group

Blog: Tips for Testing Database Code

Article: Creating Your First Spring Web MVC Application

Article: Who Cooked My Goose?

Tool: Ebselen – A mavenised Selenium test framework

Tool: Phake – PHP Mocking Framework

Video: Beheading the Software Beast

Video: Offshore Outsourcing with Scrum

Video: Agile UML Modeling

Video: Big Design Up Front is Dead

Video: Code Contracts in .NET 4

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*** Books ***

Just Enough Software Architecture

At the beginning, George Fairbanks declares that this book is different from other books about software architecture because it teaches risk-driven architecting, it democratizes architecture, it cultivates declarative knowledge, it emphasizes the engineering and it provides practical advice. I am not an expert in software architecture books, but I would say that these objectives are fairly achieved.

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Reference: Just Enough Software Architecture - A Risk-Driven Approach, George Fairbanks, Marshall & Brainerd, 360 pages, ISBN 978-0-9846181-0-1

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*** Conferences ***

Scandinavian Agile Conference, March 8 2012, Helsinki, Finland

EclipseCon 2012 North America, March 26-29 2012, Reston, USA

Agile ALM Connect, March 26-29 2012, Reston, USA

Scandinavian Developer Conference, 16-17 April, Gothenburg, Sweden

ESE Conference, April 24-25 2012, Zurich, Switzerland

Android DevCon III, May 14-17 2012, San Francisco, USA

Gartner PPM and IT Governance Summit, 21-23 May 2012, National Harbor, USA

Software Systems Best Practices Conference, June 18-21 2012, Anaheim, USA

JAZOON'12, June 26-28 2012, Zurich, Switzerland

Scrum Days 2012, July 5-6 2012, Walldorf, Germany

SPTechCon, July 22-25 2012, Boston, USA

Agile 2012, August 13-17 2012, Dallas, Texas

WPDevCon October 22-24 2012, San Francisco, USA

Android DevCon IV, December 4-7 2012, San Francisco, USA

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*** Our News ***

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 like JUnit. 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.

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Methods & Tools Article Pipeline

In our future quarterly PDF issues, you will find articles on:
* UML Best Practices
* The Most Popular Collaborative Models for Requirements
* MVP Foundations for Your GWT Application
* Just Enough Architecture: The Risk-Driven Model
* Testing ASP.NET
* Evaluation of Open Source Components
* Acceptance Testing in Scrum
* CUBRID Tool
* Scala Build Tool
* Guarana Tool