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--- jeantmiles <jeantmiles@...> wrote:

> Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 (2nd Tuesday)
> Time: 6:30pm
> Location: 3M Auditorium at Owens Science Hall
> Topic: Practical Tools and Techniques for Improving Development
> Productivity
> presented by Tom Wadzinski
>
> Abstract
> Practical Tools and Techniques for Improving Development Productivity
>
> Software professionals often balance their time between interacting
> with business people, performing technical design, and coding,
> testing and debugging. If insufficient time is available for these
> activities due to factors such as tight deadlines and changing
> requirements, software quality will suffer, and projects may fail.
> Increasing the number of developers on a project to meet a tight
> deadline many argue is actually likely to have a negative effect on
> overall project success.
>
> Successful projects employing Agile principles reveal that individual
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> and process efficiency is essential to success, through face-to-face
> communication, lightweight design tools, etc. In that same vein, if
> developers can code, test and debug more efficiently without
> compromising quality, they are more valuable and project success is
> more likely.
>
> The presenter will show how such development efficiency can be
> achieved through optimizing repetitive tasks. The presentation will
> provide a hands-on look at a variety of techniques. Examples of
> techniques and tools to be shown are:
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> Time-saving IDE conveniences/plugins (most applicable to both Eclipse
>
> and IntelliJ IDEA)
> Ant build script optimizations
> Firefox Developer plugins - Selenium IDE, Live HTTP Headers, "Web
> Developer"
> Runtime Control of Application Logging for troubleshooting
> Weblogic-specific deployment time reduction techniques
>
> About The Speaker
> Tom Wadzinski is a Senior Software Consultant at Object Partners,
> Inc., in Minneapolis. A recent returnee to the Midwest, Tom worked at
>
> software startup companies in Boston for the last several years. Tom
> is an Agile methodologies enthusiast and has been developing
> primarily on JEE.
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Don Griffing www.firstdegreesolutions.com

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