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Creating a Lively User Community
Recently on the Creating Passionate Users blog, Kathy Sierra talked about making online user forums lively and popular. Why do some mailing lists or forums take off while other languish? She offers some tips from the creators of the successful Javaranch forums.
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Agile Project Management Tool TargetProcess 2.0 Released
TargetProcess has released version 2.0 of their agile project management tool, which includes a variety of new features, including a customizable workflows, time tracking, simple search, and release planning with user stories.
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Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Released Today
The long awaited, and some say much needed, service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 has been released today.
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InfoQ Interview with JBuilder 2007 Product Manager
CodeGear, a division of Borland, recently announced JBuilder 2007, a Java IDE built on Eclipse. InfoQ sat down with Joe McGlynn, product manager at CodeGear to talk about the new release and and transition to an Eclipse based product.
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InfoQ Interview with Mylar Project Lead Mik Kersten
Mylar, the task-focused UI for Eclipse, released version 1.0 recently and InfoQ sat down with Mik Kersten, Project Lead to talk about the release, adoption, and future directions of Mylar.
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Getting Agile with MS VSTS for Database Professionals
Last month, Microsoft released Visual Studio for Database Professionals, one of the first toolsets offered to help teams extend Agile practices to the DBA community. We tracked down some information to help teams and DBAs get started with VSTS for DB Pros.
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Wazaabi 1.0 XUL Interpreter for Eclipse RCP Apps Released
Wazaabi, a set of Eclipse plugins providing a XUL interpreter so Eclipse RCP applications can be built with XUL described GUIs, has released version 1.0.
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Microsoft Announces Expression Studio
Microsoft yesterday announced Expression Studio targeted at designers or creative professionals. The Expression family of tools generate XAML which is easily consumed within Visual Studio enhancing the interaction between software designers and developers.
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Editing DSLs using Notepad++
When properly used, a Domain Specific Language or DSL can drastically reduce development time. Unfortunately, editing DSL files usually has to be done manually with simple text editors like Notepad. This is where Notepad++ comes in.
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Team Foundation Server Roadmap Revealed
Brian Harry has released the roadmap for Team Foundation Server. Areas included in the roadmap are Servicing, Out of Band releases, and Major releases. Highlights include two, possibly three, services, support for TOAD and the branched projects.
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InfoQ Interview: Ron Jeffries on Running, Tested Features
At Agile2006, Ron Jeffries told InfoQ that tracking "Running Tested Features" is the essential element of Agility, from which all other practices and activities necessarily follow. Ron who took to the whiteboard to explain how RTF benefits customers, by helping helps teams deliver consistently and reliably.
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Presentation: Billy Hollis on Building a Smart Client Toolkit
Billy Hollis is co-author of the first book ever published on Visual Basic. NET. Discover capabilities you never knew existed, learn to use advanced OO capabilities in Windows Forms, find out how to build large, complex Windows Forms applications, and get an advanced look at the changes in Windows Forms 2.0 for Visual Studio 2005.
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New Tool Allows Java to Easily Adapt to Timezone Changes
Today John O'Conner blogged on Sun's new tzupdater tool which allows existing JRE installs of version 1.4 or later to be modified to reflect timezone changes. Recently JRE updates were released to account for Australian and United States timezone changes.
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VS Orcas Specifications Posted
Twenty feature specifications for Visual Studio and .NET Framework "Orcas" are now available on MSDN. They cover areas such as the Developer Tools Platform, Visual C++, and Team Foundation Server.
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The wide ranging impact of the XML Paper Specification
XML Paper Specification, or XPS, is a new XML-based format for creating formatted documents. Seen as a direct competitor to Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF), it is one of the more controversial features in Windows Vista. Because it touches so much of the Windows infrastructure, it is expected to affect all users in one way or another.