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Qualcomm Gimbal: Creating Context-Aware Mobile Applications
Qualcomm Gimbal is a context awareness platform for Android and iOS enabling mobile developers to add context sensitive functionality to their applications. Basically, with Gimbal, an application will be able to push rich media notifications to a device based on user’s preferences, habits, location and time.
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Scrum Extensions "Suspended"
Scrum extensions were officially "suspended" by Scrum.org. InfoQ covers the story and dives deeper to find answers on this short lived attempt at providing context-aware scrum practices.
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IT Values Technologies Over Thought
Recently Cap Gemini's Steve Jones has written an article on how he believes that thinking about solutions to problems is less important these days than jumping on the latest hype bandwagon. Although he uses REST and Big Data as examples, he believes it goes beyond any single technology and that eventually IT will no longer belong to IT people.
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Presentation: Progressive Architectures at the Royal Bank of Scotland
In their presentation posted at InfoQ systems and data architects Ben Stopford, Farzad Pezeshkpour and Mark Atwell show how RBS leveraged new technologies in their architectures while facing difficult challenges such as regulation, competition and tighter budgets. They also need to cope with stringent technical challenges, for instance with efficiency and scalability.
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Loop: A Compact JVM Language for Multi-Core
As a programming language, Loop is compact JVM language influenced by Haskell, Scheme, Ruby and Erlang. It also tries to bring together the best features of functional programming and OO languages, in a consistent and pragmatic manner.
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Avoiding Downtime When Cloud Services Fail
Another AWS outage hit several large websites and their services last week. What can be done to avoid downtime? Architect for failover not just for scale.
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Node Gets Faster, More Stable
Node.js 0.8 is out. It is faster, more stable, has major improvements in the Cluster module, a new Domain module and a new build that depends on GYP.
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Domain Driven Design Exchange (DDDx) 2012 - Breaking Away from Object Oriented Design(OOD) Paradigm
At the recently concluded Domain Driven Design Exchange, the community talked of how Domain Driven Design is finally being understood independent of Object Oriented Design, and how it plays with emerging technologies like Functional Programming and REST.
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Dave McCrory Unveils Initial Formula for Principle of Data Gravity
Does data have its own gravitational pull that attracts applications and services into its orbit? That was the proposal in 2010 by VMware’s Dave McCrory who has recently put some mathematical prowess beneath his principle. In his new website, DataGravity.org, McCrory outlines the formula for data gravity and asks the technical community for help in vetting and applying his formula.
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JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 - Java EE 6, Fast Start-up, Low-memory, Cloud-ready
Red Hat has recently released JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6, which features a cloud-ready architecture, improved management capabilities and better development tools. It can be deployed in on-premise, private, and public clouds, and is the run-time engine that drives Java applications in OpenShift, Red Hat's PaaS offering.
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Google’s New IaaS Offering Runs Linux VMs in the Cloud
Google today disclosed details of Compute Engine, an IaaS offering that runs Linux VMs on demand utilizing Google’s cloud infrastructure. Google Compute Engine (GCE) supports 1, 2, 4 and 8 virtual core VMs with 3.75GB RAM per virtual core
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QCon San Francisco November 5-9 - Tracks Announced, Registration Open; Featuring GraphConnect
QCon San Francisco 2012, taking place November 5-9, is now open for registration ($800 savings until July 2nd). QCon is an enterprise software development conference for team leads, architects, and project managers covering architecture & design, Java, mobile, functional programming, Lean and Kanban, cloud computing, Big Data & NoSQL, emerging languages, and other timely topics.
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CRaSH: An Extensible Command Line Shell For Monitoring A Running JVM
The Common ReusAble SHell (CRaSH) is an interactive shell (with history support and autocompletion) that attaches to a running JVM and can execute several commands for retrieving JVM statistics or changing JVM internals on the fly. It can be used for remote monitoring and administration of existing Java applications and it is fully extensible via custom Groovy scripts.
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Dan North Discusses The Art Of Misdirection
Dan North has recently discussed the impact of opportunity costs in his article "The Art of Misdirection." Opportunity Cost is about choosing an obvious solution for a particular problem context, although sometimes an alternative option may be the better choice. Software engineers, in particular, are subject to such opportunity costs as they are constantly facing decisions in their daily work.
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Mobile Platforms: What is the Developer Mindshare, Intentshare, App-building Costs and Revenue?
A new survey from VisionMobile shows how developers perceive mobile platforms and what are the costs to develop mobile apps and associated revenues.