Although I am fairly comfortable (certainly not an expert) with TDD, DDD, and Agile concepts, I am working with some contractors who are not. They're smart guys though and given the limitations of our project they agree that techniques from these schools would increase our chances of success. We are not looking to go full blown but TDD...
There are several big .NET development conferences, such as VSLive, DevConnections, SD West, etc., but I am finding a lot of value in some of the smaller scale local conferences that have been cropping up over the last few years. I have enjoyed some of the smaller conferences such as devLink (http://www.devlink.net, Nashville, TN), CodeS...
G'day, I have been involved in a project that has required my becoming familiar with several new technologies because several tasks were left off the project plan. I just figured that I'd dive and and learn what was needed to get the various jobs done. Generally, this learning was done on my own time. So far the list of technologies I ...
I've been using ASP.NET MVC for personal projects since before it hit RTM. I am preparing a presentation for my colleagues to introduce them to basic concepts of ASP.NET MVC and show them how it could be used in our environment. My presentation has a 15 minute limit. There is a lot of information to relay (especially if you factor in p...
Here's a common situation: you have an existing application with large codebase and you hire a new developer to the development team. From my experience, it can take up to 6 months before that developer becomes fully productive. In the process the developer will cost much more than its' salary by taking the time of other team members and...
I am looking for some good websites for online training of myself and my development team. I am finding that I have excellent success with improving my own personal development practices and that of my team when we set aside an hour or two each week to do training. Currently we are watching the DevExpress CodeRush screencasts, since we...
I would like some help deciding which training will be most beneficial based on others * experience*. I am the only Software guy at a small company (200-300 employee's & 4 IT) with an official title of "Applications Developer." I am mostly self taught in c#, SQL, and various web technology's. My boss is a big supporter of training a...
Nowadays, it seems like conferences for software developers are disappearing. The last one I attended was the Tulsa TechFest and OWASP Hartford. I am curious if there are events that are not on my radar that should be? The criteria I seek: Multiple day format Speakers are practitioners, not vendors and industry analysts Under $400 In a...
Hi, I'm interesting on learnig and dominate any kind of the most popular PHP framework, like CodeIgniter, ZendFramework, CakePHP, Symphony. I 'll choose my own Framework based on the support training behind. And it will be better if it has training lessons delivered in video format. Does anyone know which is the best PHP Framework to s...
We have recently started a periodic DnrTv lunch and learn for my group. There is interest from the group to learn more about Unit Testing, but I have not been able to find any good video's on the subject. Specifically Unit Testing within Visual Studio 2008. Anyone have suggestions of video training (dnrTv, DimeCasts, etc) that might h...
[ This isn't Baked Potatoes - For Programmers, but it still might be deemed "not programming related" ] I've read through some of the recommendations at Can you recommend a good C# windows programming book (for Java developer), but none of those seem to be exactly what I'm looking for (perhaps because it doesn't exist). Specifically, I...
What are the key practical concepts that a fresh graduate should be educated with when he starts with his first programming job and how soon should you expect him/her to be productive and actually deliver the code you expect ? ...
If a senior software engineer is asked to develop an internal technical training, can she apply the estimation and planning techniques (related to software development) she knows? ...
I have joined a private company as a Corporate Trainer on Java technologies. My job is to teach java to programmers. I am 25, having a degree in computer applications. I am handling only core java,servlets and jsp batches as I am not experienced in JEE frameworks like Spring, Struts. Ajax, JSF ,Hibernate etc. I want to know how I ca...
I have a friend who is a graphic and web designer and he has been involved in programming in some projects, he has learned himself some ActionScript and his logic is good, also he has been in touch with PHP and he's not so bad (he has no formal programming training). We both live in Mexico and here the salary of a graphic or web designe...
I'm training a Junior developer. I would like to assign him with the task of designing and building an object oriented application. Are there any non-trivial sample exercises on the web which include good description of a problem and a suggested architecture diagram? ...
Let's say your company has given you the time & money to acquire training on as many advanced programming topics that you can eat in a year, carte blanche. What would those topics be and how would you prefer to acquire them? Assumptions: You're still having deliverables to bring into existence, but you're allowed one week per month fo...
About 10 years ago I had a good, on track career in IT programming C++/VB and SQL Server, however made several bad carrer desisions and ended up going backwards, developing in MS Access and a little VB. About a year ago I got lucky and managed to move to a company doing .NET development. I am really enjoying it, got a fairly good grasp o...
I am a junior, lone developer at my company. I have some years of experience in other areas of IT, but I am now mostly in a software developer role. I have generated and maintained some simple-yet-efficient applications for a couple of years now, but I realize my skills are still rough and my knowledge not very broad. Having coded befo...
Hello everybody. I have good knowledge in Php, Mysql, and with Stack Overflow users help i started understanding a bit more of Javascript. Which by the way thanks for all those who have helped so far. I always want learn a bit more, and I always had a little admiration for Ajax, and once in Ajax i can use Php and MySql... So i wanted ...