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Book Description
Professional guidance on using Microsoft's Visual Studio toolset for agile project management

Focusing on both process and results, this professional guide offers a practical approach to running agile software projects using Visual Studio's project management templates and tools. You'll first get a thorough overview of the interaction between traditional, scrum-based agile development techniques and the Microsoft Soutions Framework, before drilling down into the detail. The book covers tools, best practices, key templates, key data, team and process models, necessary tracking assets—and a host of other project challenges, such as project communication, organization, and budgets.

• Shows how to use Microsoft's agile Visual Studio toolset for agile project management
• Written by leading experts from Microsoft and industry, this is an authoritative guide to agile development for all Microsoft-based projects
• Teaches basic concepts through best practices for delivering great software on time
• Covers the interaction of traditional, scrum-based agile development techniques and the Microsoft Solutions Framework
• Focuses on what must be in place to keep a project on track, including team models, process models, detailed tracking assets, and more

Professional Scrum with Team foundation Server 2010 combines theory with practical experience to help experienced software project managers and developers ship reliable software on time.

From the Back Cover
Ship great software—reliably and on time—using Scrum and TFS

Three main factors are necessary to successfully ship great software: technology, talent, and process. Offering an in-depth focus on the process element, this book serves as a road map for using Scrum to organize teams and activities and shows you how to use Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) to execute a Scrum project. The three authors combine their years of experience to present you with best practices, including templates to help get you started. They also provide a trio of distinct perspectives for handling the variety of challengesthat you may face, all aimed at putting you on the fast track to shipping exemplary software with Scrum and TFS.

Professional Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2010:

• Details the basics of software project management, from initiating a project to organizing the team
• Examines the roles and responsibilities of an effective team
• Introduces you to the tracking and reporting functions of TFS
• Shares guidance and insight into using Scrum artifacts in TFS
• Demonstrates how to create product backlog items and define them for release
• Includes in-depth coverage of running a release, a sprint, and a retrospective meeting

Book Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (April 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470943335
• ISBN-13: 978-0470943335

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Real-World Solutions for Developing High-Quality PHP Frameworks and Applications - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Learn to develop high-quality applications and frameworks in PHP

Packed with in-depth information and step-by-step guidance, this book escorts you through the process of creating, maintaining and extending sustainable software of high quality with PHP. World-renowned PHP experts present real-world case studies for developing high-quality applications and frameworks in PHP that can easily be adapted to changing business requirements. . They offer different approaches to solving  typical development and quality assurance problems that every developer needs to know and master.

• Details the process for creating high-quality PHP frameworks and applications that can easily be adapted to changing business requirements
• Covers the planning, execution, and automation of tests for the different layers and tiers of a Web application
• Demonstrates how to establish a successful development process
• Shares real-world case studies from well-known companies and their PHP experts

With this book, you'll learn to develop high-quality PHP frameworks and applications that can easily be maintained with reasonable cost and effort.

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Develop high-quality applications and frameworks in PHP

PHP has risen to become one of the most popular programming languages in the world, making high-quality, sustainable applications and frameworks created in PHP more sought after than ever. Using real-world case studies from well-known companies, this valuable book presents the planning, execution, and automation of tests for the different layers and tiers of a web software architecture and explains how these companies measure and test the quality of their software. The authors and contributing PHP experts offer varying opinions as to how problems are solved so that you can benefit from different approaches prior to developing your own apps and frameworks in PHP.

Real-World Solutions for Developing High-Quality PHP Frameworks and Applications:

• Looks at the characteristics of good internal and external software quality
• Shares techniques for writing new code, changing and optimizing existing code, and finding and fixing bugs
• Reveals bad testing practices so you know what to avoid
• Addresses how to test service-oriented APIs, a WebDAV server, and many PHP frameworks
• Reviews large-scale selenium-based testing and testing database interaction

Book Details

• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (April 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470872497
• ISBN-13: 978-0470872499

• File Size: 48.7 MiB
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Crafting Rails Applications: Expert Practices for Everyday Rails Development - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Rails Core developer Jose Valim guides you through seven different tutorials, each of them using test-driven development to build a new Rails extension or application that solves common problems with these new APIs. You will understand how the Rails rendering stack works and customize it to read templates from the database while you learn how to mimic Active Record behavior, like validations, in any other object. You will find out how to write faster, leaner controllers, and you'll learn how to mix Sinatra applications into your Rails apps, so you can choose the most appropriate tool for the job. In addition, you will improve your productivity by customizing generators and responders.

This book will help you understand Rails 3′s inner workings, including generators, template handlers, internationalization, routing, and responders. With the knowledge you'll gain, you'll be ready to tackle complicated projects more easily than ever before, creating solutions that are well-tested, modular, and easy to maintain.

About the Author
Jose Valim is the lead developer and co-founder of Plataforma Tec. He started working with Ruby and Rails in late 2006 and was invited to be part of the Rails Core Team in 2010 after his work on Rails 3 development. He's also author and maintainer of various other well-known open source projects that led him to receive a Ruby Hero award in recognition for his contributions to the community. Lately, he's been flying around the globe giving talks and courses about Ruby and Rails.

Book Details

• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (April 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934356735
• ISBN-13: 978-1934356739

• File Size: 14.7 MiB
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