A couple of years ago I wrote about agile web development that works. But to the mainstream business community, agile was still a fairly obscure subject. Now that it’s proven itself, I figured it was ...
Sam Ruby is updating Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition for Rails 2.1 in multiple passes. His progress reveals something about the issues that others updating Rails 1 applications to 2.1 ...
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What is the best Agile methodology? Answering this question is a little like explaining what tool is right for the job without first knowing what the job is. All Agile methodologies share much of the ...
And while we don't cover a lot of agile development news, CollabNet's acquisition of Danube, a provider of Scrum project management seems worth a mention. Of course the terms of the deal have not been ...
Much has been written about both Agile and DevOps methodologies. Specifically, we talk a great deal about the value of combining both approaches to strengthen a product development process. However, ...
Maine CIO Jim Smith has managed software development projects for 35 years, mostly in Fortune 500 companies. For much of that time, he wanted a better approach. “We have always struggled with finding ...
Agile software development processes, in which software is built in short iterations rather than mapped out fully in advance, have joined the mainstream of development approaches, according to a ...
With Ruby on Rails you can produce web applications quickly. A great way to learn Rails is with “Agile Web Development with Rails” from Pragmatic Bookshelf. It costs US$43.95 for the paperback version ...