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Microsoft and Agile - Divergent Agendas?
Martin Fowler has questioned Microsoft's grip on leading-edge developers. MS has threatened one developer with legal action over his TestDriven.Net extension for VisualStudio Express, and MS development of an incompatible rival to NUnit has alienated many developers. Is there a widening divide between MS and the Agile community, as each pursues different a vision? Now's the time to speak up.
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In Case You Missed It: MonoDevelop, a C# IDE for Gnome Developers
MonoDevelop is an IDE designed specifically for Gnome developers targeting the Mono runtime. Originally started as a port of the SharpDevelope IDE, it has grown into a significant project in its own right.
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Microsoft Releases eScrum 1.0 TFS-based Project Management Tool
Microsoft has released eSCRUM 1.0, a Web-based project management tool for Scrum built on the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server platform. Project interaction is via web-based UI, Team Explorer, Excel, or Project. It provides a single place for all Scrum artifacts such as product backlog, sprint backlog, task management, retrospective, and reports.
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Can Virtual Teams Ever Work?
Co-location is one of the cornerstones of Scrum, so the increasing trend toward non-co-located teams raises questions on how Agile can work in such an environment. David Churchville has blogged some common distributed team scenarios, and offered solutions to common pitfalls of delivering Agile projects using different types of distributed teams.
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Microsoft Takes On Eclipse with Visual Studio 2008 Shell
For a number of years Visual Studio has supported non-Microsoft languages as plug-ins. However, the high cost of Visual Studio itself prevented it from being a platform for 3rd party language developers. This has changed with the announcement of Visual Studio 2008 Shell.
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Erik Saltwell on the Value of Designers
Join InfoQ in speaking with Erik Saltwell about Expression Web and the role of professional designers. Erik is determined to change the way designers are utilized in the application development process.
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Collaboration with Mono Yields Mainsoft for Java EE
Today, Mainsoft, a leading .NET-Java EE interoperability company, announced Mainsoft for Java EE, Version 2.0. The 2.0 product suite enables .NET developers to produce .NET Web and server applications that run on Linux and other Java-enabled platforms, without having to rewrite code or learn new development skills.
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Oracle JDeveloper 11g Preview and over 80 AJAX-enabled Open Source JSF Components Released
Oracle has released a technology preview version of its JDeveloper 11g IDE along with over 80 freely-available AJAX-enabled JSF components, bolstering its visual development capabilities with improved support for rich-client interfaces, live database connectivity, data binding, and more.
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Database Migration and Refactoring with LiquiBase
In recent years, there has been a fair amount of discussion developing databases through a series of fine-grained, trackable changes with automatic migration, sometimes called 'database refactoring'. If you're not using ActiveRecord in Ruby on Rails, and particularly if you're using Java, LiquiBase is an interesting candidate: an open-source tool for database refactoring and migration.
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Interop Forms 2 - Now with Controls
The new version of Interop Forms allows .NET controls to be placed on VB 6 forms as if they were ActiveX controls.
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RedHat and Exadel Open Source Exadel Studio Pro as Red Hat Developer Studio
RedHat and Exadel have announced that they are open sourcing and rebranding Exadel Studio Pro as Red Hat Developer Studio. Exadel is also open sourcing its commercial RichFaces and consolidating its Ajax4jsf project at Red Hat's jboss.org as JBoss RichFaces and JBoss Ajax4jsf, respectively.
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VS Express Editions Orcas CTP Available
Along with the full version of Visual Studio Orcas in beta, the free versions that make up the Visual Studio Express line are now available.
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Agile Tools Usefulness Debated
The Agile Journal's April issue examined how tools are being used in Agile projects. There are articles that are pro-tools, anti-tools, and a debate between Ron Jeffries and Ryan Martens.
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Live From Redmond Coverage: Orcas Overview
In conjunction with the release of VS Orcas Beta 1, the VB Team is hosting a series of live web casts. The first installment, presented by John Stallo, ran today.
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Agile Tooling Survey Results
Trailridge Consulting's independent survey looked at the adoption of agile practices globally, and the characteristics of the agile companies included in the survey, including demographics and Agile methodologies in use. It went on further to examine the tools which support Agile Project Management and delivery, from spreadhsheets to full blown integrated Agile PM tools.