Author(s) : Dean Leffingwell Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional Date       : 2007 Pages     : 384 Format    : pdf ISBN       : 0321458192

Throughout this work, we have highlighted the positive experience of many industry thought leaders, software coaches and practitioners, and industry-leading software companies in their conversion to agile methods.

We've explained the almost no matter what agile method is used, a number of agile best practices will naturally emerge at the team level, each of which contributes to higher team productivity as well as higher quality of the software solution. In so doing, we've indicated that achieving higher productivity and higher quality is no longer oxymoronic. Even more happily, the additional, intangible benefits of team empowerment and improved morale will likely be positive side effects. Surely, any methods that deliver these benefits must be taken seriously by every developement manager, vice president, and CIO who owns those responsibilities for their enterprise.

These seven agile team practices that scale include:
     1. The define/build/test component team
     2. Two-level planning and tracking
     3. Mastering the Iteration
     4. Smaller, more frequent releases
     5. Concurrent testing
     6. Continuous integration
     7. Regular reflection and adaptation

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Author(s) : Neil Matthew, Richard Stones Publisher : Wrox; 4 edition Date       : 2007 Pages     : 780 Format    : PDF ISBN       : 0470147628

Beginning Linux Programming, Fourth Edition continues its unique approach to teaching UNIX programming in a simple and structured way on the Linux platform. Through the use of detailed and realistic examples, students learn by doing, and are able to move from being a Linux beginner to creating custom applications in Linux. The book introduces fundamental concepts beginning with the basics of writing Unix programs in C, and including material on basic system calls, file I/O, interprocess communication (for getting programs to work together), and shell programming. Parallel to this, the book introduces the toolkits and libraries for working with user interfaces, from simpler terminal mode applications to X and GTK+ for graphical user interfaces. Advanced topics are covered in detail such as processes, pipes, semaphores, socket programming, using MySQL, writing applications for the GNOME or the KDE desktop, writing device drivers, POSIX Threads, and kernel programming for the latest Linux Kernel.

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