PragPub, May 2011
Table of Contents
Features
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Trevor takes us on a tour of some of the ways this hot new language improves on JavaScript.
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Today’s software shops are often run like WWI military operations. It’s time to get out of the trenches.
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When everything is crashing down around you, sometimes the best thing you can do is to let it crash.
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Jeff and Tim take a break from their recent articles on agile practices to reflect on their personal experiences with agile practices, and specifically extreme programming (XP).
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How a hand-written document composed on a train ride drove computer architecture for half a century.
Departments
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On CoffeeScript, the illuminating power of a good metaphor, and a Sudoku solution.
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The CoffeeScript controversy, Arduino feedback, misunderstanding the boiling frog metaphor, and other twittery.
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A truly agile project team lives on the edge of chaos.
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Imagining all the ways the system could fail can blind you to seeing how to make it succeed. Never be afraid to ask, “What if it just worked?”
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Author sightings, upcoming conferences, and all the coverage of the royal wedding that you will ever need.
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John casts a jaundiced eye at the recent storm in the realm of cloud computing and introduces a bovine metaphor.
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