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Business of Software Engineering - Throughput Accounting and the Theory of Constraints
In his recent blog posting “Theory of Constraints and Software Engineering” Steve Tendon addresses why throughput accounting should be preferred over cost accounting in software development organizations. He also provides a simple model for throughput accounting that is applicable to software engineering.
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QConSF Update: 50/100 Speakers Confirmed; Eric Brewer, John Hughes to Keynote; Nov 5–9, 2012
Over 50/100 speakers have been confirmed for the sixth annual QCon San Francisco 2012, including keynote speakers Eric Brewer, father of the CAP Theorem, and John Hughes, Haskell & QuickCheck Co-Designer. QConSF will take place at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on November 5 - 9, 2012. Save up to $500 if you register by Aug 24th.
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Interview on Rust, a Systems Programming Language Developed by Mozilla
Rust is a systems programming language developed by Mozilla and targeted at high performance applications. This post contains an interview with Graydon Hoare, Rust’s creator.
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Build ASP.NET Sites Easily with Kentico CMS 7
Kentico CMS 7 introduces an advanced workflow option which enables developers to create a workflow using a new visual designer. Developers will also be able to specify email templates for each type of notification email and define excluded roles in the workflow security.
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Netflix Unleashes Chaos Monkey as its Latest Open Source Tool
Netflix has just open-sourced its much talked about “Chaos Monkey” software which intentionally takes servers offline as a way to test the resiliency of a cloud environment. This is another in a long line of internally developed tools that Netflix has chosen to freely share with the technical community.
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Terracotta BigMemory 3.7: Multi-Terabyte Support, Improved Search, Enhanced Security
Terracotta Inc has released BigMemory 3.7, an off-heap store snap-in for Enterprise Ehcache. BigMemory speeds up applications by keeping data in memory, without the long garbage collection pauses that is common for large JVM heap sizes. New in this version is support for multi-terabyte servers, lower search indexing overhead, and enhanced security.
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University of Groningen Offers Repertory Grid Tool for Capturing Architecture Decisions
Dan Tofan from the University of Groningen provides the open source software tool RGT (Repertory Grid Tool) to software architects for capturing and evaluating their architecture decisions. Using the tool architects can better document their decisions and reflect about them.
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On Server-Side Performance, .NET 4.5, and Bing
With over 33% of the market share for US web searches, the servers that power Bing and Yahoo represent one of the largest .NET 4.5 RC applications in continuous production use. The close work between Microsoft’s Bing and .NET teams have resulted in a set of enhancements that should prove useful to anyone running large scale .NET servers.
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OmniFaces: A Utility Library for Java Server Faces
OmniFaces is a utility library attempting to ease JSF development for Enterprise applications. It offers several solutions for common issues encountered in JSF, including validation for component groups, a renderkit for HTML5, full Ajax exception handling and more. It complements existing JSF implementations such as ICEFaces, PrimeFaces and RichFaces.
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Community-Driven Research! A new service by InfoQ
With the launch of our first community research question on "What are the most valuable tools for HTML5", InfoQ is now providing a new service that we hope will provide you with up-to-date and bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviours that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Entity Framework Now Open Source
Microsoft has announced that they are making the Entity Framework open source. The product will continue to be fully supported, with the same development team. They also announced the roadmap for EF6, which includes task-based Async and new features for Code First development.
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Presentation: IASA’s Five Pillars of Architecture
In his online presentation “Five Pillars of IT Architecture” Jim Wilt, architect at Microsoft, introduced IASA's view on the foundation of architecture. The pillars IASA identified include business technology strategy, IT environment, quality attributes, design and human dynamics.
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Jigsaw Deferred until Java SE 9
Mark Reinhold has announced on his blog that the Java Jigsaw modularity proposal has been moved from inclusion in Java SE 8 and deferred into Java SE 9. This will allow Java SE 8 to be released on schedule in August 2013, whilst the modularity proposal can be refined with wider visibility for inclusion in August 2015's Java SE 9 release.
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Microsoft Brings Cloud Integration Services Onsite with Service Bus for Windows
This week, Microsoft released a beta of the Service Bus for Windows which has a subset of the functionality contained within the cloud-based Windows Azure Service Bus messaging engine. This is Microsoft’s first step towards delivering its rapidly-maturing cloud integration stack as a self-managed product.
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What's Upcoming in jQuery 1.8, 1.9 and 2.0, and the Removal of IE6/7/8 Support
The jQuery Core team has recently released jQuery 1.8 Beta 1. The GA release is expected July 2012. The jQuery Core team has also laid out their plans for the next versions of jQuery, versions 1.9 and 2.0, and talks about the removal of IE6/7/8 support.