Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

ColdFusion Trends with Ben Forta

ColdFusion guru Ben Forta discusses the state of ColdFusion, CF adoption trends, and the future of the platform.

Author Interview: Simone Chiaretta & Keyvan Nayyeri on ASP.NET MVC 1.0

DZone recently had a chance to sit down with Simone Chiaretta and Keyvan Nayyeri, authors of Wrox' Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and DZone's ASP.NET MVC 1.0...

0 replies - 1920 views - 09/09/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0

MVC Refcardz just released!Get your free copy of DZone's Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Refcard now. Download is available here.Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is a great book for any developer who...

1 replies - 2149 views - 09/07/09 by alashcraft in Book Reviews

Grails in Action

Since I’ve followed Glen Smith’s blog and Peter Ledbrook’s work for months, I had high expectations for this book. At the end, I experienced no dissatisfaction....

3 replies - 3708 views - 09/03/09 by Alessio Spadaro in Book Reviews

Programming Groovy

I'm very happy to have had the opportunity to have my adventure with Groovy start with this book. It's well written, fun to read and gives a perfect introduction into the language, especially for a...

0 replies - 2732 views - 09/03/09 by Andrzej Grzesik in Book Reviews

Beginning Java EE 6 Platform with GlassFish 3

Recently I had an opportunity to read Beginning Java EE 6 Platform with Glassfish 3 by Antonio Goncalves.  The book has the subtitle "From Novice to Professional" and that's a...

0 replies - 3984 views - 09/02/09 by prozen in Book Reviews

Book Giveaway: Dependency Injection Exclusive Chapter Download

DZone and Manning Publications have partnered to bring you an exclusive chapter from 'Dependency Injection' (by Dhanji R. Prasanna). This chapter covers...

9 replies - 3863 views - 08/28/09 by lyndsey in Articles

DWR Java AJAX Applications

Chapter Highlights Chapter 1: Introduction The shortest chapter presents information about Ajaxand DWR. Although the chapter is short, it has some important images that reenforce the...

2 replies - 3301 views - 08/28/09 by Manuel Jordan in Book Reviews

Becoming Agile... in an imperfect world

I read this book because I run a one man consultancy, where agility is a job requirement not an option.  However, in the next 6-12 months I plan on hiring two additional staff members,...

0 replies - 1730 views - 08/27/09 by srpsco in Book Reviews

Silverlight 3 Programmer's Reference

As a developer who typically doesn't venture too far into the "visual" side of things, normally hiding in the invisibility of server side logic, I was really surprised by this book. I've...

0 replies - 1211 views - 08/21/09 by chris.baughman in Book Reviews

The Definitive Guide to Lift

Scala is a language for the Java Virtual Machine that I have watched with interest for the past couple of years for its Functional (versus Imperative) language characteristics.  I was excited a year...

1 replies - 2928 views - 08/21/09 by Tom Jensen in Book Reviews

Book Review - Programming Clojure

Along with the many screencasts & tutorials already available on the Internet, Programming Clojure provides an invaluable introduction for the first-time Lisp programmer or Java...

0 replies - 2977 views - 08/19/09 by Paul Umbers in Book Reviews

Book Giveaway & Exclusive Chapter: Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

DZone and Pragmatic Bookshelf have partnered to bring you this exclusive chapter from 'Pragmatic Version Control Using Git' (by Travis Swicegood). Creating...

3 replies - 1100 views - 08/17/09 by lyndsey in Articles

Silverlight 3 Programmer's Reference

As a developer who typically doesn't venture too far into the "visual" side of things, normally hiding in the invisibility of server side logic, I was really surprised by this book. I've...

0 replies - 578 views - 08/14/09 by chris.baughman in Book Reviews

Developing Web Applications with Apache, MySQL, memcached, and Perl

My initial interest in “Developing Web Applications with Apache, MySQL®, memcached, and Perl” by Patrick Galbraith before I opened it was the mention of memcached.  I had heard about it, but...

0 replies - 2044 views - 08/13/09 by bjackson73 in Book Reviews

Algorithms of the Intelligent Web

This book is relevant for developers and project managers that want to add value to existing and new projects by using intelligent algorithms. It is not a marketing book, focus is clearly on the...

3 replies - 1232 views - 08/13/09 by Johan Vos in Book Reviews