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Lean Software & Systems Consortium Reorganizes as Lean Systems Society
The Lean Software & Systems Consortium (LeanSCC) whose mission is to improve the world by improving its systems and system-building capabilities (well known in the agile community for promoting the use of Kanban for software development) reorganized as the Lean System Society. The goal is to accelerate and deepen the Lean paradigm and bring together thinkers and doers from different perspectives.
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Updating Web Applications Running In Production with LiveRebel 2.0
ZeroTurnaround brings its hotpatching technology into production deployments via LiveRebel, a solution for online updates of Java EE applications. New in this version are the improved user interface and the transactional nature of updates (fully reversible).
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Do Software Engineers Need a Degree in Computer Science?
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.
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CouchDB versus Couchbase: What are the differences, and what happened to Membase?
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.
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Design Thinking and Culture of Collaboration
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.
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VMware's vFabric Suite Gains Automated Deployment and PostgreSQL Support
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.
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IEEE Experts Summit on Mastering Uncertainty
On 26th June the IEEE is organizing a one day expert summit in London called Mastering Uncertainty in the Software Industry: Risks, Rewards, and Reality at the British Computer Society.
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What’s in a Name? Change in Windows Azure Billing Portal Causes Confusion
This week, Microsoft notified its customers that it was re-naming all of the services that comprise the Windows Azure cloud offering. Confusion ensued as some wondered if Microsoft was abandoning the Azure branding, but subsequent information revealed that this change was solely related to customer billing and that the Windows Azure name was staying put.
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Azavea Announces Release of GeoTrellis under GPLv3 License
Azavea a company based in Philadelphia that provides products for geographical data, has published an open source product called GeoTrellis under GNU GPL v3 license which is a geographic data processing engine for high performance applications.
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An Uncertain Future for Visual Studio Express
The future of Visual Studio Express is uncertain. While there definitely will be an Express editions, it looks like the only variants will be for Windows 8 and Web. Those wishing to do desktop development using C++, VB, or C# and VS 11 may need to purchase Visual Studio Standard or higher.
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Scrum Extensions Update - 1st Quarter 2012
What's happened with scrum extensions since our 4th quarter 2011 update? We asked Alex Armstrong, VP Business Development and Director of Programs at Scrum.org. This article summarizes our interview and discussion with Alex and gives the latest proposed scrum extensions.
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Is SOA Dead as a Term but Alive as a Concept?
In a recent and provocative article for SD Times David Rubinstein emphasizes his opinion that while SOA has gained a lot of momentum as an architectural principle, it might be dead as a term. He quotes analyst Jason Bloomberg, who considers SOA as a bad word. In his opinion, SOA as a technology has already died due to Cloud Computing and the intrinsic complexity of Web services.
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HTTPbis Working Group Start To Consider HTTP/2.0
Rackspace's Mark Nottingham, discusses the recent HTTPbis Working Group meeting, clarifications to the HTTP/1.1 specification, and the influence of SPDY on the group that have resulted in a change to its charter enabling them to begin considering HTTP/2.0.
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Comparison of Business Analyst and Business Architect Roles Sparks Lively Debate
Nick Malik, an Enterprise Architect at Microsoft, wrote a blog post differentiating business analysts from business architects and he received a swift rebuke of his stance. Malik contended that business analysts do fundamentally different work than business architects but Kevin Brennen of the IIBA strongly disagreed and pointed out the resemblances between the roles.
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SpringSource Releases Version 1.0 Of Cloud Foundry Eclipse Plugin
SpringSource releases version 1.0 of CloudFoundry integration for Eclipse, allowing developers to manage CloudFoundry applications directly from the IDE. The plugin allows for managing and deployment of Cloud Foundry instances, binding of supported services such as database and viewing for remote files.