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Building and Deploying Android Apps Using JavaFX
Java was invented to provide a software environment for embedded devices. But a strange loop in history made Java the top language for enterprise software. Java comes full circle with JavaFX, a mature Rich Client Application framework included in the Java 8 core libraries. In this article, we show how to deploy JavaFX Applications on Android devices, a game changer for the JavaFX platform.
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Stories of Collaboration in Remote Teams
Lisette Sutherland and Elinor Slomba are collecting and sharing stories from people whose business models depend upon getting remote teams right. These stories showing how remote teams collaborate, bridge distance, build trust and get things done together will be described in the upcoming book Collaboration Superpowers: The Remote Field Guide.
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Docker: Present and Future
Chris Swan presents an overview of the Docker journey so far and where it is headed along with its growing ecosystem of tools for orchestration, composition and scaling. This article provides both a business and a technical point of view on Docker and separates the hype from the reality.
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Nigel Dalton at Agile Australia on System Thinking, Social Experiments and 20 by 2020
At the recent Agile Australia InfoQ spoke to Nigel Dalton about social experiments in modern management, applying Lean, Agile and Systems Thinking to workplaces, disruptive innovation and his goal of "20 by 2020" - having 20% of organisations using agile management approaches by 2020.
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What We Do and Don't Know about Software Development Effort Estimation
In this article, author talks about how to improve the accuracy of software development effort estimations. He suggests to use relevant historical data improve estimation accuracy and to avoid early estimates based on incomplete information. He also discusses how to measure and predict productivity in software projects.
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Apache CouchDB: The Definitive Introduction
Apache CouchDB is an open source document NoSQL database that uses JSON for storing documents. In this article, Jan Lehnardt gives an overview of CouchDB, its architecture and what problems it aims to solve and why it is different from all other databases.
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Q&A with Barry Boehm and Richard Turner on The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model
The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model describes a process model generator. InfoQ interviewed the authors about the principles underlying the Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM), applying the ICSM, benefits that organization can get from it, and how organizations can use the ICSM to determine under what conditions to use software-intensive agile frameworks like Scrum, DSDM, SAFe, or DAD.
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Virtual Panel: Convergence of SOA Governance and API Management
There's recently been a lot of discussion about the convergence of SOA Governance and API Management. Services and APIs appear to deal with similar concerns, but historically the approach & philosophy has been different. Is there convergence and how? InfoQ spoke to a panel of SOA Governance and API Management experts to garner their views.
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What Is Leading Self-Organising Teams All About?
What exactly do we have to do to capitalise on self-organisation? How can we best support our teams? What special kind of leadership is needed? The third article from a series on Leading Self-Organising Teams covers what it means to lead a self-organising team.
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What UX is and isn't?
User Experience is part of a collaborative, self-contained and balanced team that has all the necessary roles to be wholly responsible for building the right thing, and building the thing right.User experience runs deep, is way more than the UI, and starts in the abstract with the strategy.
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Renee Troughton on Agile Australia, Pragmatic Scaling and Non-violent Communication
At the recent Agile Australia conference InfoQ interviewed Renee Troughton about the theme of the conference, her experiences with large scale agile adoption and using non-violent communication in coaching.
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Practical Cassandra: A Developer's Approach - Book Review and Interview
Practical Cassandra: A Developer's Approach book by Russell Bradberry and Eric Lubow, is a developer's guide to build applications using Cassandra NoSQL database. InfoQ spoke with the authors about the book, Cassandra data model, design considerations and how Cassandra performs concurrency and versioning of the data sets.