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VersionOne adds Taskboard, Subversion/Fitnesse Integration and Free Community Edition
VersionOne, the maker of Agile Enterprise, one of the leading agile project management tools, has released two significant versions of their platform within the past few months: a free five-user community edition and a new release of their Agile Enterprise/Team platform with Subversion and Fitnesse integration as well as a new dynamic Taskboard view.
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InfoQ Interview: Jetbrains on IntelliJ 7 Featuring Hibernate and Spring Support
Jetbrains recently released a preview release of IntelliJ 7. Key features include Hibernate, Spring, and Clearcase support.
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Rails diagrams made easy with RailRoad
Rails is occasionally criticized for lacking modeling tools, but the well-structured architecture of Rails applications makes those tools less necessary than with other tech. However, a simple class diagram can sometimes be worth a lot. RailRoad eases the generation of model and controller class diagrams.
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TeamCity 2 Continous Build Platform adds Eclipse & Visual Studio Plugins
Jetbrains has released TeamCity 2; their Continuous Build platform adds more VCS support as well as IDE plugins. Eclipse support includes a personal builds, views of builds triggered by the developer's check-ins, offending code highlighting, etc. The VS plugin includes Team Foundation Server integration, managing TFS specific tasks including check in policies and notes and TFS work items.
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InfoQ Interview: Dave Astels and Steven Baker on RSpec and BDD
InfoQ interviews Dave Astels and Steven Baker, two of the authors of the successful Rspec framework about enabling Behavior-Driven Development in Ruby, and the implications of moving from a test-centric point of view to one that is more specification-driven.
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Five Orcas Short Demos
Microsoft's Data blog has five short demos on Orcas and post-Orcas features for editing XML files and XSD files, debugging XSLT, and working with Entity Data Models (EDM).
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Guice and JavaConfig: Two Approaches to IoC through Annotations
Now that the dust has settled a bit from the initial release of Guice, the comparisons with Spring IoC and specifically with Spring JavaConfig are available. Guice and JavaConfig offer different approaches on putting IoC configuration into code using Java annotations.
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Target Process Agile PM Tools v2.3 Released
The TargetProcess planning and tracking toolset is evolving quickly. Since release 2.0, they have added Test Cases bound to User Stories and Test Plans, Subversion Integration for requirement-to-source code and defect-to-source code visibility, People Allocation Management and a public Web Services API, making v2.3 a more attractive solution for large Agile shops.
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Fun: Planning your Life with Index Cards
We've all heard the apocryphal stories: "I planned my reno, move, wedding..." using Scrum. Mike Mason of Thoughtworks admitted on his blog: "this whole Agile thing has messed me right up", and shared a picture of his own personal taskboard.
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Visual Studio Orcas Round-Up
InfoQ has assembled a summary of the features included in the March CTP of Visual Studio Orcas. The Orcas CTP, which is expected to be released as VS 2007, can be downloaded from MSDN.
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Guice: Fast and Light Dependency Injection Container
Guice is a new open-source Dependency Injection framework for Java 5 that is closing in on a 1.0 release. Guice is a very annotation-driven, lightweight framework that provides an alternative to Spring, for a certain set of features.
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GreenPepper aims to Improve Collaborative Testing
Pyxis Technologies officially launched their testing product GreenPepper last July, at Agile2006. Expanding on the kind of features offered by FitNesse, it is a platform intended to improve collaboration between business experts and software developers. Now, having taken the time to respond to feedback, Pyxis is offering a more complete product with the GreenPepper 1.1 Release.
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SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer Preview
A CTP of the SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer is now available. This tool can be thought of as FXCop for SQL Server.
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Reflector for .NET now supports C# 3.0
Lutz Roeder's Reflector for .NET 5 has been released. Reflector for .NET is one of the most popular development tools for .NET. Primarily used as a class browser and decompiler for analyzing .NET assemblies, Reflector's newest release has to offer some new compelling features including support for C# 3.0.
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Interview with Javier Paniza on OpenXava 2.1
OpenXava, the rapid-web application framework, recently released version 2.1. InfoQ sat down with Javier Paniza, project lead for OpenXava to discuss the framework and the new release, which brings JPA support.