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Railway Story: SimpleTicket

Community
Ruby
Topics
Web 2.0,
Ruby on Rails,
Stories & Case Studies

A 5-year old, Dallas-based company named Spur is gaining attention and kudos within Ruby on Rails circles. Earlier this week it announced a new release of its popular GPL'd IT support tool named SimpleTicket. Managing Partner Alexander Muse was kind enough to share the story of SimpleTicket with InfoQ.

News about Business Models

What can we expect from BPMN 2.0?

Community
Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Business Process Management,
Business Process Modeling,
Workflow / BPM

Although OMG is not scheduled to get to BPMN 2.0 until August/September timeframe, the initial announcements about its possible directions have caused a lot of activities on the Web.

Adobe and the Future of Software

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
Rich Internet Apps,
Web 2.0,
Rich Client / Desktop,
SaaS

Adobe has been up to some interesting things of late from their work with Adobe Flex, to their efforts on the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), and their recent announcement that they intend to move all of their software to the web in a model know as Software as a Service (SaaS).

High abstraction level of DSLs to reduce the testing burden?

Community
Architecture,
Agile
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Unit Testing,
Agile Techniques,
Design,
Modeling

Inconsistencies between the user interface and user’s expectations can be an important source of bugs. According to Leonardo Vernazza, this is due the fact that the user and the UI do not talk the same language. Using a DSL, characterized by a high abstraction level, would be instrumental for avoiding the risk of translation errors and would therefore reduce the testing burden.

Metastorm Aquires Proforma

Community
Architecture
Topics
Business Process Management,
Business Process Modeling,
Enterprise Architecture

Metastorm, the maker of the Metastorm BPM Suite, has acquired Proforma, an Enterprise Architecture/Process Modeling tool vendor. The acquisition makes Metastorm one of the few vendors able to offer BPM and EA Modeling together.

Facebook learns from MySpace mistakes

Community
Architecture
Topics
Web 2.0,
Business

Today there are 3845 applications on Facebook. Why are so many developers attracted to the Facebook platform? One of the answers is that Facebook learned from the mistakes that MySpace made.

Does Hosted Team Foundation Server Make Sense?

Community
.NET
Topics
Teamwork

Hosted infrastructure often makes sense for companies, especially small ones with modest needs. For less than $20/month, one can get an ASP.NET or Apache co-hosting complete with a MySQL or SQL Server database. But does it make sense for other services like source control?

Promising Your Way to Agility

Community
Agile
Topics
Agile in the Enterprise,
Teamwork,
Leadership

In Harvard Business Online this week, Donald L Sull and Charles Spinosa wrote about the practice Promise Based Management - using promised commitments in the organisation to enable organisational agiity, encourage entrepreneurship and stimulate collaboration.

A Disciplined Approach to Agile Adoption

Community
Agile
Topics
Methodologies,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Change

Ahmed Sidky and James D. Arthur present an Agile Adoption Framework. Attempting to provide a structured, repeatable and measurable framework for adopting Agile processes in a software development organization.