Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

JBoss Microcontainer Series

In part 4 of his Microcontainer series, Ales Justin looks under the hood at JBoss MC's varous classloading features.

Lean Software Development

While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to deliver...

0 replies - 5770 views - 08/26/08 by Jay Fields in News

Incremental Migration

Like any profession, software development has it's share of oft-forgotten activities that are usually ignored but have a habit of biting back at just the...

0 replies - 2044 views - 08/22/08 by martinfowler in News

SOA Security 101: Patching the Firewall Hole

It’s 2008 and it’s become clear that SOA is here to stay. The first to implement are realizing the benefits of an open architecture as well as the...

0 replies - 5305 views - 08/18/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Project-Oriented SOA

Projects are the lifeblood of an IT department. Almost everything in IT is measured through a project lens. SOA, due to its global-centric nature, is often...

0 replies - 6488 views - 08/18/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

FindBugs and PMD applied on Java EE 5

After few months of a fun learning curve - coding WSDL-first Web Services based on EJB 3 and JPA - I found some time to include automated quality tasks in my...

2 replies - 6285 views - 08/18/08 by Felipe in Articles

Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea

Microsoft recently released SP1 for .NET.

0 replies - 7980 views - 08/18/08 by arnonrgo in News

Interview with Jeff Davis, author of "Open Source SOA" along with a free chapter of the book.

This article represent an interview with Jeff Davis, author of Manning's Open Source SOA, around his book subject and related areas. The book itself is an...

2 replies - 5618 views - 08/13/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Evolving Architectures - Architecture Retrospective

Retrospectives, every "agile" team does retrospectives.What are retrospectives anyway?A retrospective is a meeting where the team takes a look and...

1 replies - 4338 views - 08/13/08 by arnonrgo in News

BPMN to BPEL: Going to Battle With One Hand Tied?

I have been looking at business process modeling and I am a bit puzzled about the connections between the different goals (strategy support, process...

1 replies - 4097 views - 08/11/08 by vambenepe in News

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, Author of Manning's SOA Patterns, Shares a Free Chapter

Here is an interview with Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, author of Manning's SOA Patterns, which is an under development book and currently available as an early access...

0 replies - 4933 views - 07/24/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Animoto.com is no infrastructure flexibility benchmark

I have nothing against Animoto. From what I know about them (mostly from John’s podcast with Brad Jefferson) they built their system, using EC2, in a very...

1 replies - 3259 views - 07/22/08 by vambenepe in News

Debugging Spring OSGi with NetBeans IDE

NetBeans is my favorite IDE but it suffers from lack of OSGi support. Eclipse with Equinox and plug-ins wins in terms of fast build, test, and deploy.I try...

7 replies - 5878 views - 07/05/08 by slim.ouertani in Tips and Tricks

Running mod_rails on Leopard (OSX 10.5)

From the command line:gem install passengersudo passenger-install-apache2-moduleThe Apache 2 module was successfully installed. Please edit your Apache...

2 replies - 2745 views - 07/04/08 by danielwanja in News

Java and Mocking

I've just spent my first three days on a project in Leeds. It's a pretty common Java project, RESTful services and some MVC screens. We have been using Mockito...

4 replies - 6453 views - 07/04/08 by olabini in News

BBC Dumps Microsoft For Adobe AIR

The BBC has been using Microsoft technologies for widgets that are used by "hundreds of thousands of users". And they have just publicly stated that...

0 replies - 3351 views - 07/02/08 by BenForta in News