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Author Q&A with Brett Slatkin on Effective Python
InfoQ speaks with Brett Slatkin, senior staff software engineer at Google and author of Effective Python.
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Standish Group 2015 Chaos Report - Q&A with Jennifer Lynch
The 2015 Standish Group Chaos Report has been released which shows some improvement and lots of opportunity for improvement in the software development industry. Jennifer Lynch spoke to InfoQ about the findings and their implications for software development. A significant change in the survey approach this year is the expansion of the definition of success to explore outcomes.
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Fighting Developer Fatigue with JNBridge
Developer fatigue is the overwhelming frustration felt by developers who are under pressure to keep current with a flood of new languages, libraries, frameworks, platforms and programming models. JNBridge offers a way to help alleviate developer fatigue by allowing you to mix the libraries you know with code written in the language you are learning.
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What's new in iOS 9: Swift and Objective-C
In this article, we are going to examine new features added to iOS and OS X El Capitan main programming languages: the recently open sourced Swift, which extends pattern matching syntax, adds feature availability and protocol extension, and overhauls error handing; Objective-C, with new interoperability features as generic collections.
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Case for Defaulting to G1 Garbage Collector in Java 9
In this article, GC expert Monica Beckwith makes the case for JEP 248, the proposal to make G1 the default garbage collector in OpenJDK 9.
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Projecting a Modular Future
In this article, the authors discuss modularity and projectional editing concepts used to design programming languages, using a language workbench (LWB) like Jetbrains' MPS. They discuss how they used these techniques in three different domains: embedded-software development, requirements engineering, and insurance rules.
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Q&A on the Scrumban [R]Evolution
In the book “The Scrumban [R]Evolution: Getting the Most Out of Agile, Scrum, and Lean Kanban" Ajay Reddy describes what Scrumban is, explores the principles and theories on which it is based, and shows how Scrumban can be deployed in organizations.
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A Conversation with James Shore on Agile Fluency and Let's Code Javascript
At the recent Agile Australia Conference James Shore gave a keynote talk and a workshop on Agile fluency. He spoke to InfoQ about his work on agile fluency, teaching and building tools for test driven development in javascript.
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Metadata-Driven Design: Building Web APIs for Dynamic Mobile Apps
More than ten years ago, software architect Kevin Perera invented a design method for architectures that was called "metadata-driven design and development". In this article, Aaron Kendall explains how to use this design method and outlines similarities as well as differences to current techniques like RESTful services or HATEOAS by implementing a metadata-driven mobile application.
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A Post-Apocalyptic sun.misc.Unsafe World
The removal of sun.misc.Unsafe and other private APIs in Java 9 has in recent weeks divided the Java community perhaps as never before in its 20 year history. Even though a resolution has now been proposed and a migration path presented, the big question remains: What will a post sun.misc.Unsafe world look like?
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Executable Images - How to Dockerize Your Development Machine
Every developer knows the pain of incompatible software. By using Docker executable images developers can take advantage of container technology to better control their development environments.
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Scaling Mobile at XING: Platform, Framework and Domain Teams
This article describes learning from XING on how to scale mobile development such that as many teams as necessary can contribute to the development of mobile apps (on both iOS and Android platforms) and at the same time keep the apps consistent, stable and shiny. It summarizes the key decisions and structural changes they made in order to enable scaling mobile from 2 to 10 teams.