Sat.Jul 02, 2016 - Fri.Jul 08, 2016

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#NoEstimates, An Introduction.

Allen Holub

Estimates are waste. Not only are they not necessary, but they introduce dysfunction into the team. We should really just stop doing them. This thinking comes from the #NoEstimates movement (of which I’m a card-carrying member), which came onto the scene a couple years ago when @WoodyZuill created the #NoEstimates hash tag on Twitter.

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Using Local Notifications In Your Ionic 2 Mobile App

The Polyglot Developer

A little more than a year ago I wrote a tutorial regarding using local notifications in an Ionic Framework Android and iOS application, but Ionic Framework and AngularJS is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Lately, anything Angular is all the rage and that includes frameworks that use it like Ionic 2. This inspired me to update my previous tutorial for the latest and greatest.

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How it Works: XEL Health Session and Shutdown

SQL Server According to Bob

There are a variety of posts talking about the black box recorder (XEL Health Session) explaining what the recorder is and does: [link]. This week I ran into niche behavior while looking at the health session output. While it is unlikely to have any impact on your server the output during a SQL Server shutdown could mislead you. The health session runs on a preemptive, above normal, priority thread.

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Ten Things you didn't know about WebPageTest.org

Dean Hume

That's a pretty catchy title for an article, right?! Now that I've lured you onto this page, I am going to do my best to deliver the goods! Without a doubt, WebPageTest is one of my favourite web performance testing tools. It's completely free to use and is such a powerful way to test your web pages from different locations all over the world. If you've used WebPageTest before you'll know how easy it is to get a load of detailed information in just a few clicks, but did you know that there are a

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Create Native iOS And Android Plugins With NativeScript

The Polyglot Developer

In my previous NativeScript tutorials I demonstrated how to access native platform APIs and features using JavaScript, but I never explained how to develop plugins that could accomplish this in a very maintainable fashion. By moving this native functionality to plugins, the application code remains a lot cleaner and is better for the long run. For reference, you can see how to create Toast notifications in Android and determine the application version in Android and iOS using my previous tutoria

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Ten Things you didn't know about WebPageTest.org

Dean Hume

That's a pretty catchy title for an article, right?! Now that I've lured you onto this page, I am going to do my best to deliver the goods! Without a doubt, WebPageTest is one of my favourite web performance testing tools. It's completely free to use and is such a powerful way to test your web pages from different locations all over the world. If you've used WebPageTest before you'll know how easy it is to get a load of detailed information in just a few clicks, but did you know that there are a

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Ten Things you didn't know about WebPageTest.org

Dean Hume

That's a pretty catchy title for an article, right?! Now that I've lured you onto this page, I am going to do my best to deliver the goods! Without a doubt, WebPageTest is one of my favourite web performance testing tools. It's completely free to use and is such a powerful way to test your web pages from different locations all over the world. If you've used WebPageTest before you'll know how easy it is to get a load of detailed information in just a few clicks, but did you know that there are a

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