Quick tips and tricks to help you effectively tackle the most redundant activities during development - including extra safeguard tip using the Local History. Watch it here.
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A quick walkthrough on all the goodies Aptana plugin for Eclipse provides when editing HTML, CSS and JavaScript code. Watch it here.
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A short tutorial outlining the features of PHPEclipse. Showing these features on a simple Age Calculator project in 10 minutes video. Watch it here.
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Tutorial showing installation, requirements and configuration of Eclipse itself and the PHPEclipse plug-in. Link mentioned in the video regarding line endings: http://www.evolt.org/node/60247 (scroll to Linefeeds part) Watch it here
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Long have the business analysts and project managers who create software requirements been marooned on an island, removed from the developers and testers tasked with ensuring that these requirements actually come to fruition. The reality for most organizations today is that requirements are still disseminated to developer teams in batches of spreadsheets, as are their updates, in a manner that is often lagging and removed from the tools that developers work with. Yet without the complete and up-to-date requirements, QA can't write valid tests, and Dev can't implement to spec.

Enter the new integrations in Tasktop Sync that now bi-directionally connect requirements to development and test artifacts. Through these Tasktop Sync integrations between IBM RRC, IBM ReqPro, CA Product Vision, and HP Quality Center, Tasktop now enables requirements information to flow in real time between the business analysts who create them, the developers who implement them and the QA professionals who test against them.

In this webinar, Robert Elves, co-founder of Tasktop Technologies, will describe how Business Analysts using Rational Requirements Composer can successfully create and revise Requirements while automatically keeping the Testing team up-to-date on the latest changes through the use of Tasktop Sync.
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In this webinar Dave West, Tasktop's Chief Product Officer and former Forrester analyst, describes how organizations can start thinking about ALM from an architectural perspective and what the implications can be to software delivery organizations. He describes a world where ALM is a key business process for organizations and shows how, with some careful architecture, software delivery can be optimized to deliver real business value.
In this webinar Dave West will cover:

• The current state of ALM in the software industry
• Real customer examples of ALM
• Best practices for Lean ALM
• How you can get there

Lean teaches us that the best processes focus on value while reducing waste. But for many organizations their tools, process and people have become disconnected. There are multiple processes for planning, development, deployment, support and maintenance; unfortunately, all of these processes are disconnected. Each department has selected their own tools, none of which work together. Additionally, complex matrix organizations have resulted in people having too many masters and confused priorities. This is a long way from the ALM and Lean ALM pipedreams.
But does it have to be like that? It is time to stop thinking about tools and start thinking about ALM in a structured, systematic way.
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Software is everywhere, running everything. No matter what industry, an organization's ability to innovate is increasingly tied with its aptitude to build and release differentiating software. Software developers who are responsible for changing software, are increasingly becoming empowered to make decisions on what tools they use, how they work, and even what devices they work on. But if software is now so critical to the business, it's management is even more critical.

ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) is the discipline that describes the application of business management to the practice of software development, from idea to delivery. The idea of empowering developers and ALM may seem contradictory on the surface, one being about freedom, the other one management control. In actuality, this seemingly contradictory idea presents a very interesting opportunity.

In this webinar Dave West and Mik Kersten of Tasktop describe why developer autonomy is occurring, its roots in open source, and how managers need to embrace this motivating and flexible force to help deliver better software. Dave and Mik will discuss how developers need to engage with their management and other constituents in the software value chain to ensure that ALM continues to work. If successful, the developer has the opportunity to reach a nirvana state: allowing management oversight with developer freedom.
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* Featuring guest speaker from Forrester Research
** All webinar attendees will be automatically entered in a drawing for a new Apple iPad
For many organizations the ability to deliver software is fundamental to business success. New products, services, updates to channels, pricing or promotion require changes to applications and websites. Organizations are now looking to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to provide visibility into this increasingly core business process.

ALM promises the benefits of business management to the practice of software delivery. ALM2.0+ describes the next generation of practices that broaden the lifecycle to include operations and the business and add functionality for planning and collaboration.

But introducing ALM is difficult, with developers, business analysts, operations, project managers and QA professionals all having their own tools and working practices. Bringing order to this chaos requires a different way of thinking about ALM – one based on stakeholder inclusion and cross-vendor integration.

In this talk, featured speaker Dave West, Vice President, Research Director at Forrester Research will describe the reality of ALM adoption. West and Mik Kersten, Founder and CEO of Tasktop Technologies will present patterns for successful ALM adoption for mid and large-scale organization, and highlight how organizations can incrementally obtain the benefits of ALM by connecting siloes, one stakeholder at a time.

This talk will:

• Introduce ALM2.0+, its promise and its challenges
• Define a series of ALM integration patterns
• Describe how successful organizations are delivering software more efficiently with ALM2.0+ today

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Join this session for a live demo of a day in the life of a developer and project manager using state of the art development and ALM tools from Tasktop and Polarion. Learn how to:

• Improve project visibility for all team members
• Drive productivity by connecting the IDE with requirements management, development planning and reporting
• Foster innovation, communication and knowledge transfer by bringing virtual teams together in one integrated platform
• Get the most modern and integrated developer experience for Polarion

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In this talk Dave West, Chief Product Officer at Tasktop, describes what Lean ALM looks like and introduces the 4 tenets of Autonomy, Transparency, Adaptability and Collaboration (ATAC) that unite to maximize flow. We are increasingly living in a software economy where business innovation and value are directly tied to software. Software supply chains are changing into ecosystems where control has to be replaced with transparency and collaboration. But has the management discipline of software delivery kept pace? Has ALM kept pace? The answer is NO. Traditional ALM approaches focused on tools and the SDLC rather than the collaboration and flow. In this talk Dave will cover:

• Why the time is right for Lean ALM
• What is Lean ALM
• Autonomy
• Transparency
• Adaptability
• Collaboration
• What it means to your tool and process strategy

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