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Q&A with Ron Jeffries on The Nature of Software Development.
The book "the nature of software development" intents to help people to organize their thoughts about value and find ways to deliver value in software development. It's a book of questions, not of answers, says author Ron Jeffries, for readers to discover the natural way to develop software, the simple way, inside themselves.
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Profiles on the Web: An Interview with Erik Wilde
Erik Wilde talks to Mike Amundsen about Profiles, Description, Documentation, Discovery, his Sedola project and the future of Web-level metadata for APIs.
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Ushahidi and the Power of Crowdsourcing
At the end of 2007, a political and humanitarian crisis erupted in Kenya due to suspicions that incumbent presidential candidate Mwai Kibaki had rigged the recent elections. A few days into the crisis, a group of Kenyans in Nairobi launched Ushahidi, a website to map violence “based on reports submitted via the web and mobile phone”.
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Q&A on Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Tests
An interview with Gojko Adzic, David Evans and Tom Roden on why they wrote this book, how quantifying quality can support testing, balancing trust levels when testing large and complex systems, why automating manual tests is almost always a bad idea, on using production metrics in testing, how to reduce or prevent duplication in test code, and on upcoming books in the fifty quick ideas series.
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Interview with Tim Fox About Vert.x 3, the Original Reactive, Microservice Toolkit for the JVM
Vert.x is a reactive, microservices toolkit for the JVM, that provides an asynchronous, scalable, concurrent services development model. It supports polyglot language development with first class support for JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy, Scala, and of course Java.
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The Promise of Healthcare Analytics
Data analytics play a central role in the healthcare system by improving outcomes and quality of life while helping to control costs. In this article, author describes the role analytics can play with the emerging wearable technologies with biophysical interfaces, physiological sensors, and embedded diagnostic tools.
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The APIs.json Discovery Format: Potential Engine in the API Economy
In the fast growing world of APIs and microservices, finding just the right API when you are developing a web, or mobile application, or possibly integrating between existing systems, is always a tedious task.
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Q&A on Test Driven Development and Code Smells with James Grenning
InfoQ interviewed James Grenning about why people are not doing technical practices sufficiently or well enough, why he thinks that TDD can be fun, the importance of unit tests, why programmers need to have a good nose for code smells and how they can become better in discovering "bad code”.
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Minecraft Modding with Forge
Arun Gupta has been working with Devoxx4Kids for over two years, teaching Java programming with Minecraft modding. Together with his son Aditya, they wrote a book which teaches children how to code in Java for creating mods for Minecraft. InfoQ spoke to Arun about the recently published book, Minecraft Modding with Forge.
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NoSQL For Mere Mortals Review and Author Q&A
Addison-Wesley Professional NoSQL for Mere Mortals provides an introduction to NoSQL databases spanning across the major types of databases that fall under the NoSQL umbrella and explaining both advantages and shortcomings that each database type offers. InfoQ has spoken with the book's author, Dan Sullivan.
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How to Improve Product Development by Integrating Design Thinking with MVP
Modern product development is moving to a design thinking approach, delivering limited feature products to target markets to satisfy immediate customer needs.
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Big Data and IT-Enabled Services: Ecosystem and Coevolution?
In this article, based on a research study, author presents big data as a service-oriented and evolutionary case of disruptive IT-enabled services (IESs) rather than as datasets. Big data services emerge from combining diverse resources from an ecosystem of technologies, market needs, social actors, and other institutional contexts.