When carefully selected and used, Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) may simplify complex code, promote effective communication with customers, improve productivity, and unclog development bottlenecks.
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Foreword by Kent Beck "The authors of this book have led a revolution in the craft of programming by controlling the environment in which software grows.” --Ward Cunningham “At last, a b
Testing is a key component of agile development. The widespread adoption of agile methods has brought the need for effective testing into the limelight, and agile projects have transformed the role of
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This guide describes user stories and explains how they can be used to articulate customer programming needs. It highlights both successful and unsuccessful implementations of the concept, and discuss
Hohpe, an expert in enterprise integration, and Woolf, an author of technical books and articles, provide a catalog of 65 patterns and real-world solutions for asynchronous messaging. Providing a cons
Describing the interplay between business needs and software-architecture decisions, this guide advises business managers on their software decisions. Chapters cover software architecture, product de
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Spread spectrum multiple access communication, known commercially as CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), is a driving technology behind the rapidly advancing personal communications industry. Its gr
Martin Fowler’s Refactoring defined core ideas and techniques that hundreds of thousands of developers have used to improve their software. Now, Fowler has thoroughly updated his book to reflect
Over the past decade, Jorgen Hesselberg has had an interesting view into some noteworthy agile adoptions (Spotify, Yahoo, Walmart, and many more). Not all of the adoptions were smooth, or ev
To build high-quality software, you need to write testable code. That's harder than it seems: it requires insights drawn from arenas ranging from software craftsmanship to unit testing, refactoring to
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Designing scalable software in C++ requires more than just a sound understanding of the logical design issues covered in most C++ programming books. To succeed, senior developers, architects, and proj
The next generation of really difficult problems will be statistical, not deterministic: the solutions will be buried beneath layers of noise. Bayesian methods offer data scientists powerful flexibili
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It’s easy to write correct Ruby code, but to gain the fluency needed to write great Ruby code, you must go beyond syntax and absorb the “Ruby way” of thinking and problem solving. In Eloquent Ruby,
Object-Oriented Design with Applications has long been the essential reference to object-oriented technology, which, in turn, has evolved to join the mainstream of industrial-strength software deve
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For nearly ten years, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been the industry standard for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system. As the
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Written by two of the field's most respected researchers, Modern Industrial Organization goes beyond the traditional structure-conduct-performance framework by using the latest advances in microeconom
The major strength of "UML Distilled" is its short, concise presentation of the essentials of UML and where it fits within today's software development process. The book describes all the major UML di
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Explains how to use the Rational Rose 2002 tool, the rational unified process, and the unified modeling language (UML) to visualize and arrange the components of a software system. The author, who wo
