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Should You Create User Stories for Technical Debt?
Agile teams sometimes struggle with the planning of pure technical tasks that have no direct value for the user of a system, but have to be done to deliver working software. Should you create user stories to handle such technical tasks and technical debt, or not?
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Camunda Forks Alfresco Activiti
Camunda, a Berlin-based software and consulting company specializing in BPM, has announced that they are forking Alfresco Activiti to launch a new product called camunda BPM. The new product replaces camunda fox, the firm's previous Activiti-based BPM offering.
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Xtend 2.4 Adds Active Annotations, Android Support and More
Xtend is a statically compiled programming language for the JVM but which has type inference to reduce boilerplate code. The new Xtend 2.4 release adds active annotations, which can be used to generate standard patterns and reduce coding errors, as well as Android support and collection literals. InfoQ caught up with Sven Efftinge to find out what else is new with the Xtend 2.4 release.
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Filepicker - Upload, Download, Connect and Synchronize Files from your App to the Users Cloud
Filepicker.io enables you to upload and store files from your own application via Facebook, Dropbox, Instagra, Flickr and etc including from your own computer.
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Canvas-Based Chart.js Version 0.1 Released
Chart.js, a canvas-driven Javascript charting library, was released under the MIT open source license by Nick Downie on March 17th as an alternative to SVG-based charting libraries.
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Java 8 Starting to Find Its Way into .Net/Mono
In last week’s development snapshot, IKVM added experimental support for static methods in interfaces and default interfaces methods. These Java 8 features are primarily to support the internal workings of Java libraries, they won’t be readily usable from other .NET languages.
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GitSync for Plastic SCM with Native Git Protocols and Visual Studio 2012 Support
GitSync for Plastic SCM has been released with support for native Git network protocols and Visual Studio 2012 support.
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Terracotta's BigMemory 4.0 and In-Genius Products Offer Real-time Insights From Big Data Sources
Terracotta’s BigMemory 4.0 and In-Genius products offer real-time analytics and insights from Big Data sources and integration with Hadoop. Terracotta recently announced the release of the new version of in-memory data platform BigMemory and In-Genius, an in-memory intelligence platform for Big Data.
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DataStax Brings Enterprise Security To Cassandra, Hadoop, Solr
Datastax Enterprise 3.0 was announced last month with several Enterprise security features for a cluster using Cassandra, Hadoop and Solr. InfoQ caught up with Robin Schumacher, VP of Products at DataStax to learn more.
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PeerJS 0.1.7: A WebRTC Wrapper For P2P In The Browser
Michelle Bu and Eric Zhang announced the release of PeerJS 0.1.7 on March 6th as a wrapper around WebRTC, a W3C initiative meant to facilitate P2P communication in the browser.
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Ceylon M5 with Tuples, Verbatim Strings, Spread Operator, Late Annotation
RedHat has released Ceylon M5 programming language with several new features such as Tuples, Verbatim Strings, Spread Operator, Late Annotation and reified generics including a new module, package, functions in addition to several key syntax modifications.
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Stripe Open Sources Abba, an A/B Testing Framework
Stripe has open sourced their JavaScript A/B testing framework called Abba.
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Windows Azure Mobile Services with Android, Active Directory, Localization, East Asia Region
Microsoft has recently released several updates to Windows Azure with support for Android, Active Directory, Application monitoring with HTTP response codes, new five languages including expansion of Azure Store to 22 more countries.
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Internet Explorer 10 Broadens Flash Support
Microsoft has announced increased Flash support on IE10 running on Windows 8 and Windows RT. This content will now be enabled to run by default and solidifies Flash's position on the Windows platform.
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Node.js 0.10 Released
The Node.js development team has released version 0.10 of node.js, the Javascript-based platform for building high-performance asynchronous servers. The release features an easier to use module for handling streams, better error handling with domains, and performance improvements. The team also announced that after version 0.10, one more stable release (0.12) will follow before its 1.0 release.