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Aerogear – JBoss Community

Brent Sordyl — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:10:33 +0000

Covering all aspects of mobile application development! This includes the latest HTML5 technologies used in the mobile web, and in hybrid application frameworks like the Apache Cordova. All the way to JBoss AS based services, mobile RichFaces/JSF2, tooling, and native application support, and prototyping.

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Best Mobile Web HTML5 Framework For Mobile App Development

Brent Sordyl — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:02:10 +0000

1. PhoneGap
2. Titanium
3. Sencha Touch
4. M-Project
5. jQTouch
6. jQuery Mobile
7. NimbleKit
8. Wink
9. Jo

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The Twelve-Factor App – a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps

Brent Sordyl — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:06:45 +0000

The Twelve Factors

I. Codebase
One codebase tracked in revision control, many deploys
II. Dependencies
Explicitly declare and isolate dependencies
III. Config
Store config in the environment
IV. Backing Services
Treat backing services as attached resources
V. Build, release, run
Strictly separate build and run stages
VI. Processes
Execute the app as one or more stateless processes
VII. Port binding
Export services via port binding
VIII. Concurrency
Scale out via the process model
IX. Disposability
Maximize robustness with fast startup and graceful shutdown
X. Dev/prod parity
Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible
XI. Logs
Treat logs as event streams
XII. Admin processes
Run admin/management tasks as one-off processes

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Why We Are an Agile Shop | The Carbon Emitter

Brent Sordyl — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:06:29 +0000

Small units of work
Optimize for value
Iteration
Product owner involvement
Feedback
Honesty and trust

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Programmer Competency Matrix

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:49:05 +0000

Note that the knowledge for each level is cumulative; being at level n implies that you also know everything from the levels lower than

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How To Scale a Development Team

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:48:58 +0000

Stage 1: HomebrewingStage 2: The first hiresCrisis on the brink of Stage 3Stage 3: Breaking into teams

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Size is the best predictor of code quality

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:35:53 +0000

A long paper trail of software engineering studies has shown that many internal code metrics (such as methods per class, depth of inheritance tree, coupling among classes etc.) are correlated with external attributes, the most important of which is bugs. What the authors of this paper show is that when they introduce a second variable, namely, the total size of the program, into the statistical analysis and control for it, the correlation between all these code metrics and bugs disappears.

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iOS Boilerplate – A base template for iOS apps

Brent Sordyl — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:47:05 +0000

It is intended to provide a base of code to start with, It is not intended to be a framework, It includes solid third-party libraries if needed to not reinvent the wheel

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How To Scale a Development Team

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:52:56 +0000

Stage 1: Homebrewing

Stage 2: The first hires

Crisis on the brink of Stage 3

Stage 3: Breaking into teams

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Ruby Arduino Development

Brent Sordyl — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:57:55 +0000

RAD is a framework for programming the Arduino physcial computing platform using Ruby. RAD converts Ruby scripts written using a set of Rails-like conventions and helpers into C source code which can be compiled and run on the Arduino microcontroller. It also provides a set of Rake tasks for automating the compilation and upload process.

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