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Balancing Experiments and Deliveries in Product Development
Experimentation using for instance lean startup can help you learn about your customers and find out which features and product would be valuable. The value however comes from building products and actually delivering them to customers. You need to find ways to balance between experimentation and delivery.
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The Colossal Problem with Bletchley Park and TMNOC
Today is the 70th anniversary of Colossus, the first electronic computer ever created. Its purpose was to crack the Lorenz encrypted messages, and started operations on 5th February 1944. However, all is not well at Bletchley Park as the National Museum of Computing is being increasingly marginalised in a bitter dispute.
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QCon New York 2014 (Jun 11-13): Track Topics Announced; Featuring OSGi DevCon 2014
The 15 track topics have been finalized for the third annual QCon New York (Jun 9-13) including: Creating Culture, Continuous Delivery, Data Science, Architecture Case Studies, JavaScript, Mobile, and more. New this year: OSGi DevCon 2014 will be co-located with QCon New York, taking place at the New York Marriott Brooklyn Bridge. Register before Feb 15th and save $600 for both events.
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Google Cast SDK Adds MPEG-DASH, Adaptive and HTTP Live Streaming Support
Google has released Cast SDK with which developers will be able to integrate Chromecast into both new and existing mobile apps and websites with support for adaptive streaming, MPEG-DASH, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and SmoothStreaming.
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DataFu Enters Incubation Status at Apache
LinkedIn’s DataFu project, a collection of libraries for Hadoop, has now officially entered the incubation status at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) since the first week of January.
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JSON-LD Reaches W3C Recommendation Status
The W3C RDF Working Group has moved the JSON-LD and JSON-LD 1.0 Processing Algorithms and API standards forward to recommended status. JSON-LD is a standard to add "linked data" semantics to JSON.
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Eclipse Foundation Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Yesterday the Eclipse foundation celebrated its tenth anniversary. The original press release in February 2004 declared the not-for-profit organisation was created from its prior stewardship role to bring together independent parties from developers, consumers and add-in providers to form a board responsible for the long-term direction of Eclipse. Read on for more.
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New InfoQ Feature: Follow Your Favorite Topics with RSS
For 2014 we have made topic pages available through RSS, so you can be using your RSS reader to follow your favorite topics.
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DevOps Adoption Cultural Challenges
Oliver White, Head of Rebel Labs, recently discussed the difficulties of DevOps adoption at IT organizations, even when there is a growing body of evidence that highlights the benefits of DevOps. InfoQ took the opportunity to interview Oliver and review some of the reports that study this topic.
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QCon London in 4 weeks; Top Tracks, Sessions, and Speakers (Mar 4-8, 2014)
The eighth annual QCon London (March 3-7) will feature in-depth presentations and case studies from NASA, Netflix, Twitter, The Financial Times, Etsy, and others. Hear industry practitioners on topics like Architecture, DevOps, Performance & Scalability, Agile, Java, and more. The conference schedule is now final and live. Register by Feb 5th and save £149.
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More on Indexes in In-Memory OLTP
Indexes in SQL Server’s In-Memory OLTP don’t work exactly like normal indexes. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but the differences need to be kept in mind to avoid performance problems.
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Unsafe at any Speed; Oracle Surveys community about promoting sun.misc.Unsafe
Oracle software engineer Paul Sandoz is asking the public to weigh in on the controversial library sun.misc.Unsafe by responding to a Survey Monkey survey. The debate centers around whether Unsafe, under scrutiny due to its divergence from the Java credo of safe memory management, should be mainstreamed.
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LightTable IDE Goes Open Source, Adds Plugin Support
Chris Granger has open sourced the LightTable IDE with the 0.6 release. Third party plugin support was the highlight feature of the release. InfoQ talked to LightTable creator Chris Granger.
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What to Expect From HTTP/2
In a recent blog posting Mark Nottingham, chair of the HTTP/2 Working Group, gives his opinion on 9 things to expect in the next version of the Web standard which is rapidly nearing completion and implementations are starting to appear.
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DynamicData and EntityDataSource Updated with Entity Framework 6 Support
Microsoft recently added Entity Framework 6 support for DynamicData and EntityDataSource controls with in addition to refreshed the templates. It also has few known issues as the support is limited to C# and Web Application projects.