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Dear readers, this blog moved to AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com. Meet you there! Here is the new RSS feed .

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Software platforms by definition are“some sort of framework, either in hardware or software, which allows software to run. Typical platforms include a computer's architecture, operating system, or programming languages and their runtime libraries.”Business requirements driven platformsLately I've heard an opinion of one manager that the platform features should be driven by the business

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Jonathan Kohl, a writer on software testing issues talks about good and bad in software testing. To me the key idea is that Agile testing does not mean throwing away all the testing habits and practices you got from waterfall or whatever approach you used. Agile development and testing is not a new silver bullet, it's just a more efficient way of using the old good things.Agile methods have some

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A great sample of satire: Waterfall 2006 conference. After years of being disparaged by some in the software development community, the waterfall process is back with a vengeance. You've always known a good waterfall-based process is the right way to develop software projects. Come to the Waterfall 2006 conference and see how a sequential development process can benefit your next project

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Check out the post on error handling by Mika Raento, the researcher at the University of Helsinki, Forum Nokia Champion and the author of the huge amount of free source code examples for Symbian.Mika talks on the ways of error handling in software and how the developer can aid the error handling:You may need to document specific errors and supply additional information to the immediate caller.

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Toyota is one of the industry leaders known both for its quality and revenues. It's quality system was being built for decades and quite often the quality of the cars was by an order of magnitude better, than what, say, it's US competitors had to offer.There are few simple principles behind the Toyota quality system. Here are two of them:Built-in-qualityQuality is not something that is added at

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I eventually switched to feedburner. The new feed address for this blog is http://feeds.feedburner.com/ArtemSoftware. The old feed address will work ok, but it would be very kind of you, dear readers, to subscribe to the new feed. This way, I can know how many readers are there and if I write stuff that is of interest for somebody :)

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When there are more, than one programmer on the project, the work has to be divided somehow. Agile methodologies propose self-organized team to decide who is doing what, more traditional waterfall approaches propose that manager allocates tasks to the guys with the free time slots. Whatever the method is, there is one more thing to consider: who is allowed to make changes where.It is quite often

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One concrete tip about from the seminar discussion: If you are unsure about the platform features, create a test for it.One of the topics discussed was Test Driven Development (TDD). It is the software development method, when programmer first creates the unit test for the new functionality and only then implements it. I had the concern about the unknown platform capabilities. It happens so, that

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Last week I was attending the seminar on Agile SW Development Practices in Vantaa (Agenda in pdf).The seminar was very nice with a lot of speakers, talking about their own very practical experience in agile-related SW development. Most probably I'll highlight several seminar topics in the coming posts. At the moment I can present my main impression: all the agile methods are about is truth and

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SymbianExample.com is eventually up and running. It took quite some time to restart it, but I am very much pleased with the results. It is build on the Drupal CMS 4.7 Beta 4. As it is still beta, I disabled comments - they work ok, but display error-like messages, when you post. They will be enabled whenever Drupal community releases the next Beta or RC of the 4.7 (sometime in February)

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Lately I, my wife and couple of our friends had a chat about how people get the feeling of success and manage their lives well.At about 2 AM we more or less jointly concluded, that the key to success and to the feeling of success in virtually any project (including the individual life) is the following:1. Don't lie to yourself, never. Realize what the situation really is. You cannot get the

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Today I've spent several hours trying to locate a simple example for the Nokia's Series 60 3rd edition. And miserably failed.At the moment I am developing my first 3rd edition application. It is also the first app, where I am going to use vector icons in the svg format (introduced in Series 60 2nd edition Feature Pack 3). Somehow in all my previous projects I did the non-UI components only and

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www.SymbianExample.com went down - a hoster failure. Unfortunately their backup drive crashed also (taking into account, that they restored everything, but MySQL databases, I'd say, that probably DBs were not backed up as often as they should've been) Anyway I'll have to restart the site from what I have backup up to my local hard drive. On the other hand, I was already disappointed with Joomla

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On Joel's Multitasking in the WorkplaceMultitasking in the Workplace:Joel Spolsky, a known writer on software development related topics is a long standing advocate of private offices for every developer, perfect working conditions and managers whose main role is to “move furniture out of the way, so people can concentrate on their work”. Lately he found the support in the published in the NY

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And so I did it.www.SymbianExample.com is up and running. In perfect accordance to the Agile Manifesto's "Working software over comprehensive documentation", design is far from perfect, e-mail is not functioning, no forum installed, but it is up and running. You can already find there a launcher of ExeDll projects and sample code for global key capturing (including a tricky case of long key press

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After about a half a year of trials on my PC, I finally decided to get some more or less real personal web site to store Symbian code samples. Reasons are quite simple: I like to read and write at NewLC and Forum Nokia discussions, but I want my examples to be nicely orgainized. I want to be able to refer to my own examples.That said, today I've bought a symbianexample.com on Yahoo! domains.

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P.S.Before publishing this post I carefully verified that all the described content was already published in the web. You can consider this post being a syndication of these “other” reports :)Update: Everything but the above paragraph has been censored out

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I eventually got an AdSense for this blog. It might sound useless for a blog with one post a month and one reader a week (who is apparently me), but who knows how famous I can become just next week :) Let everything be ready for getting reach. After all, I am just trying the yet another must-know technology.

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On the 7th of September I was visiting the Nokia Research Center in Helsinki, where the Second Agile Finland seminar was hosted. The popularity of the Agile methods among the software developers is growing all over the world. My first university degree was focused on the ways of constructing large software systems. So I've been always curious about different trends in the design methodologies. I

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If I successfully learned how to use Blogger tags, you should see a "Read More" link below. Read more I've learned about this feature hereThe question for now is how do I display "Read More" links only for the posts that have something "more". Blogger guys leave this "as an exercise for the reader" :)[Updated]The question solved with the solution found here.Not that elegant solution, but it works

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Two days ago Google released its final version of the Google Desktop Search. I was using the Beta for two months already and I must confess, that it was just perfect for searching through Outlook e-mails. I get so many important e-mails every day, that before GDS it was very difficult to find any particular one. Of course, you can use GDS in the office for evaluation only if you have read their

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I was so much impressed by the Joel's advice about the fact, that learning good English is a must for every decent developer. That's why I start this blog in English. I hope to post at least sometimes and ideally this would improve my English a bit.I am going to collect here links to all the articles on software development, that I find interesting. There are so many interesting articles on

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