Articles

Organizational Culture Considerations with Agile

The organizational culture impacts to an Agile transformation are profound. Successful implementations need support from the team members, management, and executives to embrace new ways of completing work and collaborating. Every role in the organization will be affected in some way, and by understanding what is different and what drives success in each role, we are better positioned for the increase in productivity, responsiveness, and customer satisfaction that can be delivered by becoming Agile.

By Sondra Ashmore, Kristin Runyan - Jul 24, 2014

Improving the Design and Implementation of Object-Oriented Code: The Ongoing Quest for Data Integrity

Matt Weisfeld, author of The Object-Oriented Thought Process, Fourth Edition, travels through time to show the evolution of accessor methods to improve data security and integrity in both structured programming and object-oriented programming. Along the way, we learn about the mechanisms in place today to help produce robust and secure code.

By Matt Weisfeld - Jul 23, 2014

Strategies for App Development Success: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Carl Brown details the numerous steps within the app development process when things can go horribly wrong -- and provides some tips about what can be done about them.

By Carl Brown - Jul 23, 2014

Cisco ASA Licensing

This chapter discusses license mechanisms for the Cisco ASA's advanced security features that add additional layers of protection or accommodate more complex network designs.

By Andrew Ossipov, Jazib Frahim, Omar Santos - Jul 22, 2014

Database Development: Comparing Python and Java ORM Performance

Stephen B. Morris draws a comparison between two approaches to ORM-centric database development. One is based on the Python SQLAlchemy ORM tools, and the other uses standard Java JPA. Which is better? The result of comparing a simple use case for both languages is quite surprising.

By Stephen B. Morris - Jul 22, 2014