Agile Development Poster

VersionOne has distilled agile development into a decent looking wall-appropriate poster…
Accelerate Success With The Agile Development Poster | VersionOne.

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Is Software Development Too Complex? (YAP)

Yet Another Podcast, (YAP) this time about the complexity of software development, the different types of complexity of consider, and an all-around interesting conversation.
Panel: Is Software Development Too Complex?
Recorded live at devLink in Nashville, Tennessee. Billy Hollis, Kathleen Dollard, Jim Holmes, and Josh Holmes (no relation) discuss the issue of the complexity of software development. [...]

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Release It with Michael Nygard | Software Engineering Radio

This was a fantastic interview that covered a lot of topics I hadn’t really considered before. For example, how to write software that best meets not only the functional requirements of the project, but also the long-term operational requirements. Michael’s book has gone into my Amazon wishlist!
This episode is a discussion with Michael Nygard about [...]

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ADO.NET Data Services Viewer Tool

Haven’t given this a try yet but I definitely plan to soon.
I build this tool to help me build ADO.NET Data Services URL query ( for example http://e4d.com/Courses.svc/Courses?$orderby=Date/ )
and to see the result. this is first version, please send feedback…
Key Features:
1. URL IntelliSense
2. URL Tooltip
3. Data Grid View
4. XML Atom View
5. Data Service Metadata View
via [...]

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VS.Php – PHP for Visual Studio

I’ve yet to use an IDE as friendly and helpful as Visual Studio, and it looks like VS.Php brings that helpfulness to even more developers.
VS.Php is a PHP IDE (integrated development environment) based on Visual Studio IDE. With VS.Php you can design, develop, debug and deploy PHP applications within the Visual Studio IDE. VS.Php key [...]

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