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Experiencing Language Barriers with an Improvisational Theatre Workshop
In the XP Days workshop Agile cross borders, Hoang-Anh PHAN & Anais Victor explored how you can deal with language barriers in a multi cultural organization. They work for the Vietnamese company Officience who provides outsourcing services to French customer, using the English language to communicate and work together.
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Visual Commander Professional v1.3 Introduces 99 Commands, 50 Extensions and C# Syntax Highlighting
The recently released Visual Commander Professional v1.3 includes 99 commands, 50 extensions including syntax highlighting for C#. It also provides an ability to select default language for new commands and extensions by selecting the macro language in addition to several improvements.
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The Costs of Versioning an API
Versioning of services is something which has been a cornerstone problem of SOA. There are many examples over the years of experiences gained and shared, but little in the way of concretely comparing and contrasting different approaches. Jean-Jacques Dubray has written about the experiences of his team in this area and some equations they have developed to try to illustrate the differences.
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A Few Highlights from QConSF2013- Part 1 of 2
On each day of the 3-day conference at the inviting environs offered at the Hyatt there was a jam-packed schedule of speakers, exhibits and activities that made for some difficult decisions as to which tracks and what happening to attend.
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Leveraging DDD in Core-Business Applications Using Entity Framework
Domain-Driven Design, DDD, is all about the domain, not about persistence. With a history of database programming for 25 years, later years using Entity Framework, Julie Lerman, a consultant on the .NET platform and a Microsoft MVP, in a recent presentation at the Øredev developer conference shares her persistence experiences when moving into DDD.
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A/B Testing for Mobile Applications
Best.ly offers support for A/B-testing mobile applications without the need for code changes and resubmitting to an app store. Currently, there is only a native library for the iOS platform but libraries for the Android eco-system are already in development and will be available soon. Experiments can be administrated online, adjusted during runtime and monitored in realtime.
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List & Label 19 Adds Report Parameters, Collection Variables, OData and REST Data Providers
The recently released List & Label 19 provides support for report parameters, collection variables, new chart types such as combined, stacked, funnel, pipeline, shapefile and donut in addition to support for OData and REST data providers.
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YourKit Released the 2013 Version of its Profilers
For the recent 2013 version release of their Java Profiler, YourKit focused on improving its high level data collection features. The intention of the so called J2EE high level profiling is to get insight into the logical processing, rather than just providing timing information.
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Salesforce go API-first with Salesforce1
At the recent Dreamforce event in San Francisco Salesforce launched their Salesforce1 platform. The initial deliverables focus on mobile, and aim to improve on the earlier ‘Touch’ user interface by having a richer set of underlying application programming interfaces (APIs). The launch has been accompanied by new application and admin mobile apps.
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Noda Time 1.2 Released with XML, JSON Serialization and Text Formatting
The recently released Noda Time 1.2 provides support for XML and JSON serialization, text formatting and also includes an assembly that enables developers to handle JSON serialization.
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Release of BizTalk Services Signals “Cloud First” Transition for Microsoft Integration Platform
After a long incubation period, Microsoft released its cloud-based integration tool called Windows Azure BizTalk Services. While reiterating their commitment to their on-premises integration tools, Microsoft has said that it will push innovation to its cloud platform first.
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Streaming Big Data With Amazon Kinesis
Amazon recently announced Kinesis, a service that allows developers to stream large amounts of data from different sources and process it. The service is currently in limited preview.
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Telerik LightBox Control with Templates, Items Collection, Automatic Resizing and Paging
Telerik has added LightBox control to its ASP.NET control suite with support for templates, items collection in addition to advanced features such as automatic resizing, keyboard navigation and paging.
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Visual Studio's C++14 Support Grows
A new CTP for Visual Studio 2013 allows developers to sample increased support for modern C++11/14 features. The CTP can be used with both Visual Studio Express and VS2013 Professional or greater.
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Nokia Imaging SDK 1.0 Adds Filters, WinPRT API, Enhancements and Sample Demos
Nokia has recently released Imaging SDK 1.0 at the Slush 2013 with 50 built-in filters, improvements related to memory management, WinPRT API library in both managed and native code in addition to sample apps which demonstrate the capabilities of the new features.