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  • VersionOne announces V1: Team Edition

    VersionOne recently launched V1: Agile Team giving smaller projects a tool to get started with planning and tracking Agile projects. With V1: Agile Team a single team has the capability to their product and sprint backlogs, get interactive "taskboards" and "testboards" for day to day development activities, view progress of activities through various reports and burn graphs, and more.

  • Are Business Analysts Ready to Become Programmers?

    Microsoft seems to think so as they prepare to deliver on the Oslo vision. Back in November 2007 Doug Purdy made a veiled reference to a new project in development calling it "Emacs.NET". This fueled rampant speculation far from the intended mark.

  • Is ADO.NET Entity Framework Enterprise Ready?

    The ADO.NET Entity Framework relies heavily on visual modeling tools. But are these tools really appropriate for large scale development?

  • Tool Roundup for Silverlight

    Many organizations are evaluating Silverlight for usage within their business applications. While official tool options today are limited to Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend there are other options.

  • Eclipse Prepares for 3.4 with Feature Complete Milestone Release

    The final milestone and feature-complete version of Eclipse 3.4M7 was released on Friday, with a number of improvements over the previous Eclipse 3.3 version.

  • Article: Software Development Lessons Learned from Poker

    There is no silver bullet. We know it, but don't act like it. Your language, tool or process is better, right? In this article, Jay Fields says: "It depends". The right choices varies with context, people, and more. This article touches upon how a lot of things must impact a choice; learning culture, skill levels, teamwork, incomplete information, metrics - and context.

  • Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

    Microsoft has released the March 2008 version of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools.

  • Visual Studio Hotfixes - Still a Mess

    Though the Visual Studio Hotfixes have been moved to MSDN Code Gallery, developers are still forced to search for hotfixes and service packs.

  • Framework Design Studio Released

    Krzysztof Cwalina, along with Hongping Lim and David Fowler, has developed an API management tool they call the Framework Design Studio. This tool can be used to compare different versions of .NET APIs. Users can also append comments to APIs and export them as Word documents.

  • Code Project Browser for VS 2005/2008

    SlickEdit has created an Add-On for Visual Studio that integrates with the popular site, The Code Project.

  • Text Template Transformation Toolkit in Visual Studio 2008

    Visual Studio 2008 includes a Text Template Transformation Toolkit as part of Domain-Specific Language Tools, and can be used to generate code based on a text template.

  • Agile Version Control for Multi-Team Development

    Many agree that the minimum set of Agile practices includes disciplined version control. In particular, when several development teams work in the same codebase, to ensure there's a clean, releasable version at the end of every iteration, they need a plan. Henrik Kniberg's proven scheme is a useful guide for teams. This detailed paper includes the entire method and even a cheatsheet.

  • Free Phalanger IDE Released

    A free IDE has been released for Phalanger, a PHP that runs on the .NET platform. The IDE is based on Visual Studio Shell.

  • eBay's Presentation Architecture and Eclipse

    eBay insider Michael Galpin has written a two part article describing the evaluation of eBay's presentation architecture from its early Perl roots to a Java solution using Eclipse plug-ins and code generators to improve the developer experience.

  • A Preview of Mingle 2.0

    On April 15th Thoughtworks will release Mingle 2.0, nine months after the initial release of Mingle. InfoQ got some time with product manager Adam Monago to talk through the new functionality provided by Mingle 2.0.

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