The Agile Manager

JUNE 29, 2008

This content is derived from material presented in a ThoughtWorks-sponsored webcast in June 2008. A two minute video presentation of this material is available. A complete webinar re-broadcast, including audience Q&A, will be available soon. The popular press makes Agile sound like nirvana. Practitioners speak of it in nearly religious terms. Yet we often find that IT teams are underwhelmed after going “Agile,” even after having expended considerable effort on making the change.

Code 45

Code Availability Processing Performance 45

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 26, 2008

Test Driven Development. There was a nice article at Sitepoint about Test Driven Development. The author, Chris Corbyn, walks through the TDD process using PHP examples, and describes some of the benefits he has discovered in the TDD process. Firefox 3 Memory Benchmarks and Comparison. With both Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5 being freshly released, here’s a nice memory performance comparison of those browsers, as well as the IE Beta version 1 and Flock.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Operating System Testing Technology 40

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 17, 2008

Lately I’ve been working quite a bit with some PHP code that made heavy use of global variables. It made the code quite rigid to work with…when changes were made in one function it had a ripple effect on many other key functions and more than once, made me curse global scope. But sometimes it’s necessary to share information between different functions, so what’s a programmer to do?

Cache 40

Cache Code Virtualization Testing 40

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 4, 2008

Who Wrote It? When I first heard Douglas Crockford was writing Javascript: The Good Parts (let’s just call it JTGP from here on out) I was anxiously awaiting the release. Crockford has been responsible for many highly regarded articles and presentations, as well as for his incredible work with JSON, JSLint and much more. While Brendan Eich may be the father of Javascript, Crockford is probably the Godfather.

Lambda 40

Lambda AWS Programming 40