Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever

published 2 months, 1 day ago, submitted by powerrush 2 months, 10 days ago

noop.nl — In this post I proudly present the Top 100 of Best Software Engineering Books, Ever. I have created this list using four different criteria: 1) number of Amazon reviews, 2) average Amazon rating, 3) number of Google hits and 4) Jolt awards. read more...

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When does design happen in Agile?

submitted by powerrush 2 months, 23 days ago

codebetter.com — Someone at work, new to agile approaches, asked me about when agile projects do design. I thought I would share my answer in case others were still wondering, and to try and explain where experience may have lead to us activities that are not textbook... read more...

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Richard Feynman, the Challenger, and Software Engineering

published 6 months, 1 day ago, submitted by gustavod 6 months, 1 day ago

duartes.org — When Richard Feynman investigated the Challenger disaster, he issued a brilliant report with many insights into the nature of engineering. These apply directly to modern software development. Not sure if this one is on topic - it's about general software engineering. read more...

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Explicit Strongly Typed Selective Proxies (CORRECTED)

submitted by powerrush 6 months, 22 days ago

jpboodhoo.com — “How could I dynamically create a proxy around an object (interface based proxies are not a problem) and then selectively apply interceptors at a method by method level if necessary?”. read more...

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Agile's Dark Side

submitted by powerrush 8 months, 22 days ago

blog.natural20software.com — "Being a self-proclaimed Agile Advocate I seem to find myself in discussions regard the bad points about agile. Books, articles, and talks on the subject of agile always paint the rosy happy story about using agile. I’m no fool, and I realize that things aren’t quite as happy as some people make it out to be..." read more...

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SQL Server: How to modify data in any table in a resultset made up of

weblogs.sqlteam.com — Recently i'm seeing a lot of questions about how to modify data in the tables which are part of the multi-join select statement. And i keep wondering how can this be so hard to remember. The methodology is quite simple. read more...

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