Methods & Tools - the free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers - has just published its Winter 2011 issue with the following articles:
* How to Make Your Culture Work with Agile, Kanban & Software Craftsmanship
* How Software Architecture Learns
* Understanding of Burndown Chart
* The Psychology of UX - Part 2
* Cucumber: Behavior Driven Development in Ruby
* Sureassert Exemplars: Java Unit Testing Without Unit Tests
* ChiliProject: Modular Open Source Web-based Project Management
* Scrum-it: Virtual Open Source Scrum Board Application

70 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?winter11

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TrueBridge Resources is one of the Nation’s fastest growing staffing and recruiting firms. Currently, we have an opening for an experienced Java/SOA System Engineer to work with leading-edge technologies in the development, testing and deployment of our customer’s next generation of air traffic control systems. This contract role is an excellent opportunity to support our national customer by leveraging your skills, education, and experience with service oriented architectures.

Devart is glad to announce the release of the new versions of Entity Developer Model Designer, v.4.2, Devart ORM solution LinqConnect, v.3.1, and complete set of Devart dotConnect ADO.NET Providers for most popular databases.

WALTHAM, MA, NOVEMBER 16, 2011 – Telerik, an end-to-end provider of software application lifecycle and content management solutions, today announced a diverse array of updates, new tools, and product enhancements being implemented across its full developer productivity portfolio.

Rackspace is seeking a Sr. C# Front End Developer for our on line backup and collaboration tools team. This team is providing Rackspace’s customers with an industry leading on line back up and collaboration tools product hosted in our cloud computing environment.

Sliding Mind, a new technology provider, who delivers inspired, innovative solutions for IT help desks, today announced TrackPath, a new solution that eliminates the guess work involved in recreating the application problem when a user contacts the IT Help Desk. TrackPath continuously monitors the activity on each PC so that in the event of any issue, a fully documented audit trail is instantly available for transmission to the IT help/service desk.

Devart's Data Access Components (DAC) and dbExpress lines have been updated with new versions of products, anticipated by thousands of users. Now developers can benefit from introduction of 64-bit platform, support of Rad Studio XE2 and FireMonkey compatibility. The latest versions provide new opportunities for development of advanced cross-platform high-performance database applications.

“Static Code Analysis and Code Contracts” is the 2500 article that has just been added to the Software Development Articles directory, a carefully handpicked list of software development articles available on the web from sources like IBM, Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, the Scrum Alliance or Informit.

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