My first realization that cloud computing was changing the dynamics of software development and testing was at a conference about five years ago where two guys got up and described how they bootstrapped their fledgling software development business by spending about $200 buying server time with Amazon’s cloud services.  Rather than spending tens of thousands of dollars on servers and system administrators, they in effect outsourced those costs to the cloud provider. Since that time, the economics and flexibility of cloud computing have revolutionized all aspects of software, enabling companies large and small to avoid large infrastructure costs while rapidly ...

Part 2 in the series of What's New in Windows 8.1 for Developers. Read this article to learn all about what is new in Windows 8.1 specifically geared toward XAML and C# developers.

(In this blog post we share the first two of the areas that we address in our new free ebook called Ultimate Agile Planning Handbook) Timebox – Everything Timeboxing refers to the act of putting strict time boundaries around an action or activity. For example, you may want to timebox a meeting to be 30 minutes long to help ensure that the meeting will begin and end on time with no exceptions. When you timebox an event the result is a natural tendency to focus on the most important “stuff” first. If you time box a meeting, you would ...

When tracking data from your applications with EQATEC Analytics you may want to separate your internal data from the data arriving from your customers. This blog post shows you how.

In today’s post I’ll be doing a quick review of principals of Object Oriented Programming (OOP). This post will help frame future posts in this series by ensuring that we are all on the same page in terms of our understanding of software development. Even if you are seasoned developer I recommend that you at least read the section on Polymorphism and Interfaces as these topics are widely misunderstood and are crucial to building good TDD practices.