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Blending Design
April 2008 | reviewed by Kathleen Richards
With integrated tools, how will designers work with your dev team?
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Record and Replay
March 2008 | reviewed by Eldad Maniv
Black box software promises a quicker fix.
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Best Practices to Secure Your Code
January 2008 | reviewed by John K. Waters
How to get your team to build secure software.
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Defect Prevention
December 2007 | reviewed by Adam Kolawa
Use Automated Defect Prevention (ADP) as a software management strategy that increases application quality through process improvement.
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Web Parts and Portals
November 2007 | reviewed by Andrew Gelina
Jump-start your Web projects with MOSS 2007.
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Finding Top Talent
November 2007 | reviewed by Kathleen Richards
Strategies for recruiting good programmers.
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Portfolio of Pieces
October 2007 | reviewed by Anthony Lombardo
The benefits of modular design.
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SOA + WOA = NOA
September 2007 | reviewed by Lori MacVittie
How to head off performance bottlenecks.
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Training at Your Fingertips
September 2007 | reviewed by Craig Jensen
Put a face to your training technology and save resources.
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Continuous Team Builds
August 2007 | reviewed by Kathleen Richards
Microsoft is taking on Continuous Integration -- should you?
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Best Practices for Dev Outsourcing
July 2007 | reviewed by Andrew Gelina
Some useful guidelines for choosing the the right IT partner.
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Waterfalling Forward to Agile
July 2007 | reviewed by Kathleen Richards
Manage the transition to agile processes.
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The Right Staff
June 2007 | reviewed by Thomas Caywood
Utilize often-overlooked recruiting practices.
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Engineering Success Offshore
June 2007 | reviewed by Leonard Lobel
Best practices for ensuring a productive outsourcing experience.
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Diving into the Virtual Pool
May 2007 | reviewed by John K. Waters
The software development life cycle is enhanced by virtualization. An overview of what you should consider.
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Making a Build
April 2007 | reviewed by Mike Gunderloy
A review of Vincent Maraia's book on the best practices for Microsoft's software configuration.
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Clean Up Your AJAX Security
February 2007 | reviewed by Rita Zurcher
How secure is your AJAX? This book can help you avoid the security pitfalls.
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SOA Explained
January 2007 | reviewed by Mike Pizzo
Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Carol Baroudi and Marcia Kaufman explain Service Oriented Architecture in this book for "Dummies."
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Agility Is for Managers, Too
December 2006 | reviewed by Mike Gunderloy
Is there a better way to to deliver a working product on schedule and under budget? A review of Mike Cohen's "Agile Estimating and Planning."
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Found: The Missing Manual
November 2006 | reviewed by Rita Zurcher
A review of Lars Powers and Michael Snell's "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Unleashed."
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