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Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:16:02 GMT

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.

Scrum Explained in 5 Minutes

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:01:02 GMT

PDF entitled "Scrum in Five Minutes" from http://www.softhouse.se/

When does design happen in Agile?

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:02:31 GMT

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...

Reality-driven development

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:48:24 GMT

A way to think about software development as evolution directed by users and technical quality.

Richard Feynman, the Challenger, and Software Engineering

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:16:04 GMT

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.

Test Supported Development (TSD) is not Test Driven Development (TDD)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:38:20 GMT

"Test Supported Development" (TSD) intends to characterize the creation of tests during ANY/ALL stages of development, that is, tests are not necessarily created before their respective System Under Test (SUT), but not necessarily created as an afterthought, either...

Explicit Strongly Typed Selective Proxies (CORRECTED)

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:59:37 GMT

"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?".

TDD Proven Effective! Or is it?

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:46:02 GMT

So when Phil Haack announced that Research Supports the Effectiveness of TDD I was more than a little interested in seeing what the linked report actually contained.

Agile's Dark Side

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:10:22 GMT

"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..."

Confessions of a Terrible Programmer

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:01:07 GMT

I'm a terrible programmer. You would think that having done this for nearly 25 years that I should be pretty good at it by now. But nope, I still put bugs in my code, use the wrong types for variables or subprogram arguments...

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

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:27:09 GMT

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.

Code reuse, next level

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:01:02 GMT

A common mistake that developers have been making over the years is to place conditional statements that always evaluate to the same result (until a property changes) inside a loop, here's an alternative to solve this problem