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Polyfilling The HTML5 Gaps With JavaScript
Addy Osmani introduces polyfills, JavaScript shims that can be used to simulate HTML5 functionality in older browsers such as IE 6-8. He explains how to write new polyfills.
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Building a Hybrid Cloud at Canadian Pacific
Stuart Charlton presents Canadian Pacific’s strategy for a modern IT: adopting hybrid cloud, introducing Agile/Lean development, automating everything, distributed data systems, RESTful integration.
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Zero Defects : Baking Quality into the Agile Process
Ahmed Syed explains how to use testing and defect management in an Agile project to ensure product quality, addressing design quality, legacy systems, and how build management affects quality.
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Brownfield to Green
Nat Pryce presents the reengineering effort made to transform a legacy system through incremental improvement, the development process implemented, the results and some takeaway lessons learned.
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Brownfield Software - Industrial Waste or Business Fertilizer?
Josh Graham addresses 10 myths related to working on legacy software, attempting to prove that one can make good use of legacy code without having to rewrite the entire thing.
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Strategies for Effectively Managing Legacy Systems
Amit Uttam and Derek Longmuir cover what legacy systems are, typical approaches to dealing with legacy systems, replacement strategies/techniques, migration plans, and continually evolving a system.