This article presents differences and changelists in TortoiseSVN 1.7

This article explains why Agile development teams must deliver and keep delivering on a regular schedule. The surest proof of your team's practicing Agile methodology correctly is that you continue delivering working product.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is taking a center stage in enterprise architecture. SOA enables parallel development by multiple disparate teams, each with its own delivery and maintenance schedule. In this article, I will examine service-versioning approaches, allowing service implementations to evolve without breaking existing consumers, leading to more loosely coupled SOA implementations. The basic idea of service versioning is fairly simple, but its implementation requires strict governance. I will discuss units of versioning; service changes, constituting a new version; service version life-cycle considerations; and version deployment/access approaches. The method-based service versioning proposed here allows one to minimize the impact of versioning and to reduce amount of deployed code. Semantic messaging for service-interface definitions makes service implementation more resilient to change.

This article shows how use cases can help when eliciting requirements, documenting and planning the implementation of an ALM system.

Combine tried-and-true old friend Apache Ant with the trendy Twitter service to create a build-notification system that doesn't rely on Ant's mail task. By receiving status updates via Twitter after an automated Ant build completes, project developers and testers are notified immediately that the new build is available. And they can subscribe and unsubscribe to the feed at will.

In this second part of a two-part series, you will learn about application security issues related to authentication and authorization, as well as five vulnerabilities commonly found in ASP.NET web-based applications. Additionally, find out how to keep configuration files from being unintentionally modified by uninformed programmers or administrators, as well as why it is critical to never rely on default setting values.

In part one of this two part article, you will learn about five of the top ten "worst offenders" of misconfigurations of application security that can cause overall problems for ASP.NET Web-based applications. Learn more about how to secure the Web.config files of an ASP.NET application.

The trouble with configuration management in some large technical organizations is that it is not just configuration management. An organization often assigns to a single role responsibility for software builds, configuration management (which often includes change management), and releases of products to customers. While these responsibilities are mutually dependent they are distinct roles, have different goals, and require very different skills. When we evaluate a product line organization this role is often identified as a source of problems. One or more of the dimensions is either neglected or incorrectly executed by the personnel assigned to the position.

Among the branching models used in software configuration management, the branch-by-purpose model offers better support for parallel development efforts and improved control of both planned and emergency software releases.

This article proposes 10 practices which often break down or are not properly understand to begin with. These are all relevant to version control products of all types and programming languages of all flavours. I’ll pick some examples from Subversion and .NET but they’re broadly applicable to other technologies.