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InfoQ Book: Patterns of Agile Practice Adoption: The Technical Cluster
In this book Amr Elssamadisy guides the reader on crafting their own agile adoption strategy focused on their business' values and environment. This strategy is then directly tied to patterns of agile practice adoption that describe how many teams have successfully (and unsuccessfully) adopted them.
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Sun Hires Debian Linux Founder Ian Murdock to Run OS Platform Strategy
Ian Murdock, founder of Debian Linux, has been hired by Sun Microsystems to head up operating system platform strategy.
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SCA/SDO go to OASIS
The proprietary SCA and SDO specifications, often seen as competing with JEE and JBI, are taken to OASIS. With Sun now a member, is this a case of happy families?
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon
In this article we present the main takeway points and further reading as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. It's a long article, but a superb way to learn all the main lessons that bloggers felt worth talking about. QCon London was InfoQ's first conference and has been quite a success.
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Agile Presentations Prevalent at SDWest 2007
Dr. Dobb's SDWest is a well known developers' conference taking place this week. Although this is not an 'Agile' conference, numerous presentations and the first two keynotes are from the Agile world. The SDWest Show Daily, an online news source for the conference, has reported on topics of interest to Agile practitioners, from TDD to SOA.
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QCon: REST for SOA at Yahoo!
In his talk at the QCon conference, Mark Nottingham, a "Principal Technical Yahoo!", provided some insight into how the Yahoo! Media Group uses the Web, and not Web services, to build its SOA variant. According to Mark, the Yahoo! Media Group gains significant advantages by using HTTP RESTfully, especially by exploiting caching opportunities.
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Ruby Domain Specific Languages Buzz
Last week the Ruby community received a good amount of material related to domain specific languages
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Google Contributes Data Partitioning Capability to Hibernate
Three new top level Hibernate projects were released today: Validator, Search, and Shards. Search and Validator are both promotions of existing work. Shards which was contributed by Google is a horizontal partitioning solution built on top of Hibernate Core.
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Ruby at QCon
It was great to see Ruby share a platform with other enterprise-oriented tracks, supporting the language's growing maturity and strength within the global marketplace.
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Debate: Is Scrum Master Certification Good for the Agile Community?
The certification debate has surfaced again. Members of Industrial XP mailing list have been discussing whether the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) program is good or bad for our community. Ken Schawber, Joshua Kerievsky, Robert Martin, and many others have weighed in on this discussion, with very diverse opinions.
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Interview: Paul Oldfield on Doing Agile Right
In a new InfoQ interview, Paul Oldfield shares his thoughts on agile software development, and what it means to do agile "right".
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WADL REST API description language getting some attention
Many REST API description languages exist but none have seen major uptake; recently WADL has been getting more attention. Yahoo!'s Mark Nottingham is maintaining a stylesheet to generate docs from WADL. Google's Thomas Steiner unveiled plans for a Google project for generating language specific clients from WADL, & generateing WADL from documentation. Sun is adding WADL tools to SDWP.
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Six Usability Improvements to the Axis2 Deployment Model
Deepal Javasinghe, one of the developers of Apache Axis2 and Synapse, describes 6 major usability improvements introduced in Axis2: J2EE style deployment mechanism, Hot deployment and hot update, a repository (where you drop services and modules, Change in the deploying of handlers (modules), new deployment descriptors, and multiple deployment options.
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Panel: Who will Develop Software in 10 Years?
In this video discussion panel (with transcript) Martin Fowler, Frank Buschmann, Steve Cook, Jimmy Nilsson, and Dave Thomas discuss the future of software development. Topics covered include outsourcing, is Google the next MS?, multi-core & parallism, grid computing, software stacks of the future, and more. The panel is from QCon sister-conference JAOO.
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Adobe Photoshop C3 Team Succeeds with Agile
"Better quality, plenty of features, fewer nights and weekends: what's not to like?" wrote Mary Branscombe in an interview with CS3 co-architect Russell Williams. Adobe has successfully adopted an iterative development process, leaving waterfall behind. This time they benefitted from a champion, who had successfully adopted iterative processes elsewhere, helping them over the rough spots.