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Rebuild or Refactor?
Should you rebuilding or refactoring software?An interview with Wouter Lagerweij about what it is that makes refactoring so difficult, if rebuilding software is less risky than refactoring, and how continuous delivery fits with rebuilding software.
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JavaOne 2015 Keynotes (Part 1)
In celebration of Java’s 20th anniversary, the JavaOne 2015 central theme this year was ’20 years of Java’. The keynotes this year were largely focused on Java 9 and beyond. We cover these keynotes in two parts. This first part focuses on Java 9 and its flagship Project Jigsaw.
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Microsoft CodePush Aims to Enable Instant Updates for Cordova and React Native Apps
Cordova and React Native developers will be able to deploy mobile apps updates directly to their iOS and Android devices thanks to CodePush, Microsoft say. CodePush includes a cloud service and an SDK to make it possible to update JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and image resources so apps can retrieve their latest versions. Compiled code, though, cannot be updated on the fly.
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Microsoft Releases ASP.NET WebHooks Preview
Microsoft recently released ASP.NET WebHooks preview, a library to create and consume webhooks. WebHooks supports MVC 5 and WebApi 2.
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Product Development in an Unruly Mob: Alex Wilson and Benji Weber Q&A
At the fifth ‘Agile on the Beach’ conference, held in Cornwall, UK, InfoQ sat down with Alex Wilson and Benji Weber from Unruly. Wilson and Weber presented a session at the conference entitled 'Product Development in an Unruly Mob', and discussed how mob programming has helped Unruly get the best from the software delivery team.
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How Testing Changed When Moving from Waterfall to Agile and DevOps
An interview with Laurent Py about why decided to transition to agile and DevOps and the benefits that they are getting from that, the "testing swing", how you can measure behavior change to find out if a feature is valuable, on the strategy and approach for test automation and what he expects that the future will bring us in testing.
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Motivation and Drive in Agile Teams
Fin Kingma talked about motivation and how the success of agile relies on driven people at the Agile Testing Days 2015.
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Dropbox API v2 Launched for Swift, Python, .NET, and Java
Dropbox has announced its API v2, which supports four SDKs: Swift, Python, .NET, and Java, is generally available to developers. According to Dropbox, Dropbox API v2 is “simpler, more consistent, and more comprehensive”. Currently, API v2 does not support JavaScript and Objective-C.
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RiotJS Takes Big Step Forward with 2.3 Release
The Riot.js core team has released version 2.3, describing it as "a big step forward" for the React-like micro-library. The major 2.3 release organises the code base into six different modules: compiler, tmpl, observable, route, core and cli, meaning that if developers want to use just a part of the framework like the riot-route or the riot-observable they can do it without using riot at all.
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Maven Central Now Mirrored by Google
Takari, the Maven-focused company started by Maven founder Jason van Zyl, announced that Maven Central is now mirrored on Google Cloud Storage. Maven Central is the central repository where many open source Java libraries publish their artifacts.
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Role of Testers in Agile Teams
Karen Greaves and Sam Laing will give a keynote titled "testers are dying" at the Agile Testing Days 2015; InfoQ will cover this conference. InfoQ interviewed them about how agile impacts the role of testers, what testers can do to shorten the lead time of testing, collaboration between testers and other team members in agile teams, and the value that testers can contribute in agile teams.
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Remotely Exploitable Java Zero Day Exploits through Deserialization
According to a recent security analysis by Foxglove Security suggests that applications using deserialization may be vulnerable to a zero-day exploit. This includes libraries including OpenJDK, Apache Commons, Spring and Groovy. InfoQ investigates.
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Teradata Announces New Software for Real-Time Analysis of Internet of Things Data
At its 2015 Partners User Group Conference, Teradata announced two new software capabilities for real-time ingestion and analysis of massive streams of IoT data. While the Teradata Listener software enables "listening" to multiple, diverse IoT data streams in real time, the new Teradata Aster Analytics on Hadoop software provides scalable analysis of massive IoT data streams.
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Object.observe ECMAScript Proposal to be Withdrawn
The ECMAScript proposal for Object.observe will be withdrawn at the next meeting. Though the idea held a lot of promise, the JavaScript world has evolved since it was first introduced.
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Red Hat Linux Enterprise is Reference Platform for .NET Core on Linux
Microsoft and Red Hat announced they will bring official support to .NET runtime on Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux. According to the two companies, Red Hat Enterprise Linux will become the primary reference operating system for .NET Core on Linux.