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Is Beautiful Usable, or Is It the Other Way Around?

Topics: Design,; UX,; Research,; Usability

A group of researchers from two European universities have evaluated if “what is beautiful is usable” is true in software, and they have concluded that “what is usable is beautiful.”

By Abel Avram on May 19
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How to prioritize tasks based on their value

Topics: Agile Techniques,; Agile,; Prioritization

Bob Marshall in his new blog post, "The Value", summarises his research on different methods of prioritisation. Together with Grant Rule he developed a new way of understanding team and company goals.

By Marta Jasinska on May 18
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Do Software Engineers Need a Degree in Computer Science?

Topics: Software Engineering,; Software Engineering Education

The role of a software Engineer” does not necessarily require a degree in Computer Science. In his article for Dr. Dobb’s, “Software Engineers All!” Andrew Binstock discusses whether software engineers really require a degree in computer science to perform an excellent job.

By Michael Stal on May 18
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CouchDB versus Couchbase: What are the differences, and what happened to Membase?

Topics: CouchDB,; Membase,; Memcached,; Couchbase,; Caching,; Companies,; Distributed Cache,; Distributed Document Oriented Database,; NoSQL,; Clustering & Caching,; Database,; Infrastructure,; Performance & Scalability

Recently Couchbase published a comparison of Couchbase and CouchDB to denote the differences and simlarities between the two. This document addresses a common question: "What is the difference between CouchDB and Couchbase?", and what happened to Membase? InfoQ caught up with James Phillips, a Couchbase founder, to discuss the comparison and the merger of the two products Membase and CouchDB.

By Rick Hightower on May 17
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Web Intents: What They Are and Their Current Implementation Status

Topics: HTML5,; HTML,; Rich Internet Apps,; Web Development,; Markup Languages,; Languages,; Google,; Programming,; Web Applications,; Services,; Companies

This article shortly explains what Web Intents are and why they are useful. Google has enabled Web Intents in Chrome 19, the implementation being available to Safari via WebKit, and Mozilla is also working on it.

By Abel Avram on May 17
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Design Thinking and Culture of Collaboration

Topics: Team Collaboration,; Collaboration,; Distributed Team,; Teamwork,; Leadership,; Design Thinking,; Agile

Design thinking is about creating vision of the future, not just managing the present. Bill Burnett from Stanford University recently spoke about design thinking and what questions we need to ask to shift from design to design thinking.

By Srini Penchikala on May 16
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Going Beyond async and await On WinRT

Topics: .NET Framework 4.5,; Visual Basic.NET,; C#,; .NET Framework,; .NET Languages,; .NET,; Programming

The Windows Runtime introduces greater support for asynchronous programming. The await and async keywords for C# and Visual Basic are part of this support.

By Jeff Martin on May 16
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VMware's vFabric Suite Gains Automated Deployment and PostgreSQL Support

Topics: Spring,; Dependency Injection,; Cloud Foundry,; SpringSource,; Virtualization,; Java,; Design Pattern,; VMWare,; Languages,; Infrastructure,; IaaS,; Licensing,; Patterns,; Cloud Computing,; Object Oriented Design,; Design,; Companies,; Programming,; Business

VMware has today announced VMware vFabric Suite 5.1, adding automated deployment, enterprise open source support, and PostgreSQL capabilities, as well as an expansion to the SQLFire in-memory database.