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• Essential Skills for the Agile Developer
• Integrating and Extending BIRT, 3rd Edition
• The Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF)

Essential Skills for the Agile Developer Posted: 30 Sep 2011 09:12 AM PDT Book Description Agile has become today's dominant software development paradigm, but agile methods remain difficult to measure and improve. Essential Skills for the Agile Developer fills this gap from the bottom up, teaching proven techniques for assessing and optimizing both individual and team agile practices. Written by four principals of Net Objectives—one of the world's leading agile training and consulting firms—this book reflects their unsurpassed experience helping organizations transition to agile. It focuses on the specific actions and insights that can deliver the greatest design and programming improvements with economical investment. The authors reveal key factors associated with successful agile projects and offer practical ways to measure them. Through actual examples, they address principles, attitudes, habits, technical practices, and design considerations—and above all, show how to bring all these together to deliver higher-value software. Using the authors' techniques, managers and teams can optimize the whole organization and the whole product across its entire lifecycle. Essential Skills for the Agile Developer shows how to Perform programming by intention Separate use from construction Consider testability before writing code Avoid over- and under-design Succeed with Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) Minimize complexity and rework Use encapsulation more effectively and systematically Know when and how to use inheritance Prepare for change more successfully Perform continuous integration more successfully Master powerful best practices for design and refactoring Review "I tell teams that the lean and agile practices should be treated like a buffet: Don't try and take everything, or it will make you ill–try the things that make sense for your project. In this book the authors have succinctly described the 'why' and the 'how' of some of the most effective practices, enabling all software engineers to write quality code for short iterations in an efficient manner." –Kay Johnson, Software Development Effectiveness Consultant, IBM "Successful agile development requires much more than simply mastering a computer language. It requires a deeper understanding of agile development methodologies and best practices. Essential Skills for the Agile Developer provides the perfect foundation for not only learning but truly understanding the methods and motivations behind agile development." –R.L. Bogetti, www.RLBogetti.com, Lead System Designer, Baxter Healthcare "Essential Skills for the Agile Developer is an excellent resource filled with practical coding examples that demonstrate key agile practices." –Dave Hendricksen, Software Architect, Thomson Reuters Book Details Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (August 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0321543734 ISBN-13: 978-0321543738 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (19-07-2011) The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software (28-09-2010) Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (27-07-2009) Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum (31-01-2010) Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change (03-02-2011) Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders (01-02-2011) Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development: Better Software Through Collaboration (31-01-2011) Lean Integration: An Integration Factory Approach to Business Agility (05-07-2010) Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development (28-07-2011) Integrating CMMI and Agile Development: Case Studies and Proven Techniques for Faster Performance Improvement (19-10-2010)

Integrating and Extending BIRT, 3rd Edition Posted: 30 Sep 2011 09:07 AM PDT Book Description The world-wide developer community has downloaded over ten million copies of BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools). Built on the open-source Eclipse platform, BIRT is a powerful reporting system that provides an end-to-end solution from creating and deploying reports to integrating report capabilities in enterprise applications. Integrating and Extending BIRT, Third Edition, introduces programmers to BIRT architecture and the reporting framework. BIRT technology makes it possible for programmers to build customized reports using scripting and BIRT APIs. This book also includes extensive examples of how to use the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment to build plug-ins to extend the features of the BIRT framework. The source code for these examples is available for download at www.eclipse.org/birt. Key topics covered include Installing and deploying BIRT Deploying a BIRT report to an application server Understanding BIRT architecture Scripting in a BIRT report design Integrating BIRT functionality into applications Working with the BIRT extension framework This revised and expanded third edition features the following new content Updated architectural diagrams Expanded scripting examples Debugging event handlers Developing an advanced report item with data binding Developing a data extraction extension Developing a charting extension Readers may also be interested in this book's companion volume. BIRT: A Field Guide, Third Edition, is the authoritative guide to using BIRT Report Designer, the graphical tool that enables users of all levels to build reports, from simple to complex, without programming. Book Details Paperback: 880 pages Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 3rd Edition (August 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0321772822 ISBN-13: 978-0321772824 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Tomcat 6 Developer's Guide (31-12-2009) The Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) (30-09-2011) The Definitive Guide to NetBeans™ Platform (06-06-2009) The Definitive Guide to Grails, 2nd Edition (05-07-2009) Test Driven Development for Embedded C (26-04-2011) Spring Security 3 (21-06-2010) Spring Persistence with Hibernate (03-11-2010) Secure Java: For Web Application Development (25-11-2010) Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer (11-08-2009) Practical Liferay: Java–based Portal Applications Development (27-06-2009)

The Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) Posted: 30 Sep 2011 09:05 AM PDT Book Description As Eclipse-based applications become increasingly popular, users are demanding more sophisticated graphical interfaces. When standard widgets aren't enough, graphics built with GEF are often the best solution. The Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) covers everything Java tool developers need to create tomorrow's richest, most visual interfaces. This practical, hands-on guide begins by introducing GEF, Draw2D, and Zest, and demonstrating what can be achieved with them. Next, the authors walk through building a simple Draw2D example, helping new GEF developers understand the core capabilities available to them. Building on this foundation, they progressively introduce more of the Draw2D frameworks, including Figures, Layout Managers, Connections, Layers, and Viewports. They present a chapter-length graph visualization project based on Zest, followed by detailed coverage of non-Draw2D portions of GEF. The book's final section walks step by step through developing a complete GEF editor. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the problem, and includes challenges, solutions, diagrams, screenshots, cookbook-style code examples, and more. This book is organized to help developers solve immediate problems quickly, while also gaining in-depth knowledge for building advanced solutions. Relevant APIs are included in several chapters, making this an even more useful standalone reference. This book Introduces GEF application components such as shapes, flow, logic, and text Explains Draw2D architecture, drawing features, and event processing Shows how to create and customize figures, use painting and borders, and work with each Draw2D Layout Manager Thoroughly explains GEF models, including domain and presentation information, populating diagrams, and more Shows how to use Zest's content providers, filters, and layout algorithms Covers EditParts, EditPolicies, Tools, Commands, Actions, and much more The Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) is the best resource for all Java tool developers who want to construct sophisticated graphical editing products that integrate with Eclipse, for experienced Eclipse users who want to start creating their own graphical tools, and for anyone who wants to see what makes GEF tick. Book Details Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (August 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0321718380 ISBN-13: 978-0321718389 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Eclipse Rich Client Platform, 2nd Edition (05-07-2010) Tomcat 6 Developer's Guide (31-12-2009) The Definitive Guide to NetBeans™ Platform (06-06-2009) The Definitive Guide to Grails, 2nd Edition (05-07-2009) Test Driven Development for Embedded C (26-04-2011) Spring Security 3 (21-06-2010) Spring Persistence with Hibernate (03-11-2010) Secure Java: For Web Application Development (25-11-2010) Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer (11-08-2009) Practical Liferay: Java–based Portal Applications Development (27-06-2009)

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