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At 2Paths we’ve got some pretty good processes in place: we practice agile software development and scrum, have all our projects set up in Continuous Integration. We try to do test-driven development where at all possible. One area that has slipped through the cracks though is database change management. What company hasn’t run into the [...]
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I was fortunate enough to partially attend the Much Ado About Agile Conference held recently in Vancouver, and was immediately drawn to the session “Database Development in Agile World” led by Marc Munro. This was a very timely session as we have recently begun a project that involves refactoring a legacy database and developing a [...]
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I’m known as the ScrumMistress around the office, but as of the end of August I’ve actually officially earned the name. I attended a ScrumMaster course put on by the Software Productivity Center & Winnow Management and am now a certified ScrumMaster. Scrum is an iterative, incremental, Agile process for developing any product or managing any [...]
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With forecasts of April snow, our 2Paths contingent of two headed off at the crack of dawn one Friday for Bellevue, WA to attend the No Fluff Just Stuff – Pacific Northwest Software Symposium (NFJS). Having only spent 10 minutes at the border (whew!), we arrived early enough in the Seattle area to fit [...]
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Any developers working on projects involving databases will need to be aware of persistence strategies, and take these into consideration at design time. Persistence strategies are tailored to specific projects depending on a variety of circumstances such as if they are read-only or read/write, how important the timeliness of data is within the application, and [...]
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