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Coordination Strategies: Beyond Scrum | Part 3 by Adil Akhter

In the previous post , we discuss different strategies that are imperative in successful implementation of Scrum process model in the GSD context. In this post, we take this discussion further by introducing few strategies that are originated from other...
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Coordination Strategies: On Successful Implementation of Global Software Development using Large-scale Fully Distributed Scrum| Part 2 by Adil Akhter

In the previous post we discussed the motivation behind employing various coordination strategies while using LFDS in GSD context. In this post, we discuss several intra- and inter-team coordination strategies to successfully implement LFDS to alleviate...
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Coordination Strategies: On Successful Implementation of Global Software Development using Large-scale Fully Distributed Scrum | Part 1 by Adil Akhter

Software engineering is evolving every day to address the ever increasing growth of system’s complexity and size along with the application domains and level of interactions with the other systems. In current era of globalization, with the intention of...
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Essence: Software Language Composition by Adil Akhter

Language composition is one of the desirable aspects of Software Language Engineering to enable reusability of the existing languages. "From now on, a main goal in designing a language should be to plan for growth.” - Guy Steele: Growing a Language...
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Domain-specific Languages(DSLs) by Adil Akhter

Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are basically programming languages. But they are specifically targeted/tailored towards particular problem domains. Hence, it implies to the fact that DSLs are narrow in applicably unlike General-purpose programming languages...
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F# Symbolic Operators by Adil Akhter

This post is about how we can define a custom operator using F#. Defining a new operator in F# is very straightforward. For example, if one wants to define "!" as an operator to compute factorial of an integer, following is the way to do it...
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F# Recipe : Computing Length of a List by Adil Akhter

Code: let rec computeLength list = match list with | [] -> 0 | head::tail -> 1 + computeLength tail Result: > computeLength [1..10];; val it : int = 10 >
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Cr-Documentor - A Cool DXCore Plug-in for Visual Studio by Adil Akhter

May be I am last person on the Earth, who discovered and started using this way too cool plug-in recently ….however, if you have not checked it out yet – probably you should do it now :). Cr_Documentor gives you just-in time rendering of your XML Documentation...
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.Net Provider Pattern - Designing decoupled and extensible Component for .Net Application by Adil Akhter

Introduction Provider Design pattern of .Net Framework 2.0 is one of the most exciting way to design component in decoupled and extensible way. In my today’s post, I will discuss about this design pattern and how we can use it to make the components...
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More on Unit Testing : TestContext by Adil Akhter

I n Test Driven Development  as a developer we spend significant amount of time in writing unit tests. As improving coding coverage, testing all the boundary condition and ensuring the of quality code is significantly important, writing unit test...
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