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- What makes your computer's processor tick?
- IT pros and amateur computer enthusiasts alike love to get under the hood of their computers to see how they work. A Peek at Computer Electronics: Things You Should Know lets you do it vicariously, without risk to your own equipment. In this chapter download, investigate the history...
- Book chapters 2007-10-19
- Use a project dashboard to monitor your project's progress, course-correct more easily, and steer your project to success
- The key to understanding a project is to make regular measurements, both quantitative and qualitative, then to display the measurements publicly. When project managers display these measurements as part of the project status, teams are able to adjust their work and proceed more successfully. Such a collection of...
- Book chapters 2007-08-30
- Plan and schedule your project the pragmatic way
- A pragmatic project manager knows that there are many possible "right" ways to schedule a project, and that an initial project plan will always evolve as the project gets underway. As a pragmatic project manager, your job is to start the project with just enough planning and to...
- Book chapters 2007-08-08
- Investigate how cascading failures occur across layers within your system architecture
- The standard system architecture for enterprise systems, including Web sites and Web services, comprises a collection of functionally distinct farms or clusters often referred to as layers that are interconnected through some form of load balancing. When system failures start, they usually begin with a crack that comes...
- Book chapters 2007-07-06
- Design a pilot project to transition from Java to Ruby
- The first time you use a new programming language to solve a real business problem, much is at stake. Success can pave the way for major change; failure may mean you never get another chance. If you're considering a move away from established platforms like J2EE toward Ruby,...
- Book chapters 2007-06-22
- Build quality assurance and enterprise integration into every development project
- "Feature complete" is not the same as "production ready." Whether it's in Java, .NET, or Ruby on Rails, getting your application ready to ship or your Web site ready to launch is only half the battle. Did you design your system to survive a sudden rush of visitors...
- Book chapters 2007-05-31
- Is it time to abandon Java for Ruby? Identify when and where the switch makes sense, and how to make it
- Developers often struggle beneath Java's mountains of complexity, even though the project might not need Java at all. In contrast, Ruby offers incredible productivity, surprising performance, and ultimately developer satisfaction. But how can you justify the move away from established platforms such as J2EE? If you're succeeding with...
- Book chapters 2007-03-20
- Add Ajax support to your Web application with Rails
- Since 2005, Rails has become a serious and popular alternative to traditional Web development environments such as Java and .NET. It offers developers who want to write professional-grade applications a full-stack, open-source Web framework, with integrated support for unit, functional, and integration testing. It enforces good design principles,...
- Book chapters 2007-03-13
- Examine the ingredients of interfaces from data-oriented to service-oriented
- Examine the ingredients of interfaces in this sample chapter from Interface Oriented Design. Almost every interface you employ or develop has a combination of these ingredients, so understanding them will enable you to better appreciate the whole pie. First, study the spectrum of interfaces from data-oriented to...
- Book chapters 2007-03-13
- Power edit text in Mac OS with Textmate's built-in automations
- TextMate is a full-featured text editor for Mac OS X that can greatly enhance your text manipulation skills with custom built automations. But TextMate also ships with over 30 bundles or groupings of related automations that can jump start your text editing process right out of the box....
- Book chapters 2007-03-07
- Customize automations in TextMate to power edit text in Mac OS X
- TextMate is a full-featured text editor for Mac OS X that can greatly enhance your text manipulation skills. Use it to slice through text and build repetitive structures of data in the blink of an eye. Use it to post to your blog, handle your IRC conversations, and read your...
- Book chapters 2007-02-27
- Save time by automating the way you build, deploy, and monitor Java applications
- Developers have better things to do than piece together builds, follow checklists full of release commands, copy files around on servers, and monitor running programs. Fortunately, what with the global competition for development work heating up, automation can give you back some of your time so that you...
- Book chapters 2007-02-27
- Save time and test software at your convenience with scheduled builds
- Most programmers have something better or more urgent to do than run the build file every few minutes. And even if everyone on the team could quickly run a full build, they might deliberately put it off because they have a deadline to meet and they're afraid someone...
- Book chapters 2007-02-06
- Investigate programming issues surrounding remote interface design
- Systems today are moving away from self-contained programs; instead, they tend to interact with a number of other programs on remote hosts. In this sample chapter from Interface Oriented Design, explore the challenges and issues involved in dealing with remote interfaces versus local interfaces. Since many remote...
- Book chapters 2007-02-06
- Back to the future: Are software development methods trending backwards, and is that a good thing?
- Discover the treasure buried in the early history of software development in this sample chapter from No Fluff, Just Stuff 2006 Anthology. Programmer Glenn Vandenburg reflects on trends from the earliest days of software development to the present, and argues that the field is gradually but inexorably going...
- Book chapters 2007-01-30
- Master the facilitation skills you need to lead an effective software development iteration retrospective
- As a software developer, you are already an expert at what you know--software development--but you can still improve your team's methodology to allow you to continually learn from your software development experience throughout the life of a project. In this sample chapter from Agile Retrospectives: Making Good...
- Book chapters 2007-01-17
- Don't wait till a system crash: Address the "horseshoe nails" of data crunching now
- Every day, programmers have to recycle legacy data, translate from one vendor's proprietary format into another's, check that configuration files are internally consistent, and search through web logs to see how many people have downloaded the latest release of their product. This kind of data crunching is not exactly glamorous,...
- Book chapters 2006-11-29
- Improve employee performance with these coaching and delegation techniques
- Don't be satisfied with being a good manager—become a great one by practicing the techniques of effective coaching and successful delegation that will transform your team into the best that it can be. In this sample chapter from Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management, learn how to assess...
- Book chapters 2006-11-22
- Discover the secrets of great management: Build capacity and motivate your employees to excel
- The results of great management are generally easily visible: highly functional employees, successful teamwork, excellent products; but we often don't see how managers achieve those results. Great management is difficult to deconstruct, understand, and replicate because it often occurs behind closed doors. Step behind those closed doors in this sample...
- Book chapters 2006-11-08
- Set your software development project on the road to success with these practical tools and strategies
- Ever wonder why many software projects run into trouble, and many never ship at all—while others run like well-oiled machines? Learn how to set your software development project on the road to success in this sample chapter from Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects. Discover a...
- Book chapters 2006-10-25
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