Java Posse #359 - Roundup '11 - Developer Practices

Roundup '11 - Developer Practices Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com This recording of the third slot session on Wednesday 23rd February in the Side Room at JPR11. Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO How can we more productive as developers, designers and engineers? What software tools are available? What do companies do to improve productivity? How do they do this efficiently? Where have they found productivity gains? What parts of the development process have been productive or improved? Thanks to Peter Pilgrim for production help. Peter Pilgrim is an Oracle Java Champion, a Scala, JavaFX and Groovy enthusiast who lives in London, UK. He actively blogs online at http://www.xenonique.co.uk/blog/ Remote Working VPN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network Distributed Version Control Systems Git SCM http://git-scm.com/ Github https://github.com/ Mercurial http://git-scm.com/ Bazaar http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/ Gerrit Code Review using Git http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/ Telecommuting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_working Teleconferences WebEx http://www.webex.com/ Skype http://www.skype.com/ Goto Meeting http://www.gotomeeting.com Taking Notes Evernote http://www.evernote.com/ Org-Mode Emacs http://orgmode.org/ Microsoft One Note http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/ JIRA tasks and action http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/ Eclipse Mylyn http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/ Remember The Milk http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ SCRUM Practices Pair Programming http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/pair.html Product Backlog http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/scrum/product-backlog Egoless Programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egoless_programming SCRUM story cards http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/scrum/task-boards Rally Application Lifecyle Management http://www.rallydev.com/agile_products/lifecycle_management/ Martin Fowler's article on Code Ownership http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CodeOwnership.html Self-Help Individual Organisation Skills Getting Things Done (David Allen) http://www.davidco.com/ Eat That Frog (Brian Tracy) http://www.eatthatfrogmovie.com/ Pomodoro Technique http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/ Unit Testing and Mocking Frameworks EasyMock http://easymock.org/ JMock http://www.jmock.org/ Mockito http://mockito.org/ Using Groovy for Unit Testing http://groovy.codehaus.org/Unit+Testing Coding Conventions Old Sun Microsystem's Coding Convention documentation http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconv-138413.html Android Coding Convention http://source.android.com/source/code-style.html Tracking Bugs Bug Tracking Systems Conceptually http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_tracking_system Redmine http://www.redmine.org/ JIRA http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/tour/bug-tracking.jsp Bugzilla http://www.bugzilla.org/ Trac Open Source System http://trac.edgewall.org/ Miscellany Keyboard short cuts for Eclipse http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/EclipseEmacsKeybindings_3_1.pdf Keyboard short cuts for IntelliJ IDEA http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/keyboard-shortcuts-reference.html Keyboard short cuts for NetBeans http://usersguide.netbeans.org/shortcuts.pdf Emacs Shortcuts http://www.schacherer.de/frank/technology/tools/emacs.html Vi Shortcuts http://www.keyxl.com/aaab462/105/VIM-Text-Editor-keyboard-shortcuts.htm Thanks Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork Theme Music: Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1) To contact us: Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse Pose a question on our Google Moderator group - http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465-4626 Or send us email - [email protected] The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall