Month: April 2015
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Career
Do You Need a Degree to be Hired to Develop Software?
I retweeted a link to Here’s a Thing: There’s No Correlation Between a College Degree and Coding Ability. I was a…
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Agile
Thoughts on 6-Sigma and Agile
Question that comes up from time to time: “Does anyone have Agile project which is Six Sigma? How these two…
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DevOps
Towards Compliance as Code
Infrastructure as Code is fundamental to DevOps. Automating the work of setting up and maintaining systems infrastructure. Making it defined,…
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DevOps
GitHub and Jenkins integration
Jenkins is a well-know term in many teams around the world and has been for quite some time now. As…
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Agile
Features do not a Product Roadmap Make
Last month, Mike Smart of Egress Solutions and I gave a webinar for Pragmatic Marketing on product roadmapping when working…
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DevOps
Fuse Fabric Profile Migration for Continuous Delivery
JBoss Fuse is a powerful distributed integration platform with built in features for centralized configuration management, service discovery, versioning, API…
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Agile
Thin Vertical Slices of Value
I recently had a conversation with two colleagues where I was trying to explain the advantages of frequently delivering thin vertical…
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Software Development
Neo4j: The learning to cycle dependency graph
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been reading about skill building and the break down of skills into more…
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Enterprise Java
How to Avoid the Dreaded Dead Lock when Pessimistic Locking – And some Awesome Java 8 Usage!
Sometimes you simply cannot avoid it: Pessimistic locking via SQL. In fact, it’s an awesome tool when you want to…
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