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Scrum Alliance to Strengthen ScrumMaster (CSM) Certification
The CSM Certification from the Scrum Alliance is granted to individuals that participate in a two day certification course and complete a pass/pass (e.g. can’t be failed) test. The testing process will be changed in 2012 to include a pass/fail test, and a new Professional Development Unit (PDUs) program will be rolled out no later than January 2013 for CSM’s to maintain their certification.
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Sensor Networks - GEOCens finished its Pilot Phase
In December the GEOCens (Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Sensing) is finishing its pilot phase, as the not-for-profit organization Cybera has recently published at GISUser.com. The software architecture is supposed to improve researcher access to international environmental data drawn from more than 60,000 sensors and 2,800 web map servers.
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Grails 2.0 Released with Improved Usability, Class Reloading, and Query DSL
The Grails development team at SpringSource, a division of VMWare, recently announced the release of Grails 2.0. This release improves Grails usability akin to Roo console support. GORM, the persistence layers in Grails, maximises the DSL support from the Groovy 1.8 via AST transformations.
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Have the Pragmatists Won? Water-Scrum-Fall Is the Norm
Dave West, Director of Research and Vice President at Forrester, asserts that Water-Scrum-Fall is the norm in IT today. Forrester's research raises the question: is anyone really doing pure scrum?
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ReSharper 6.1 Improves Performance, Adds Async Support
ReSharper 6.1 promises to alleviate many performance problems with ReSharper 6 in Visual Studio 2010. In addition to bugfixes, the pre-release includes new features such as the async/await keywords, an updated settings engine, and experimental support for Visual Studio 11.
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State of the Lambda
Brian Goetz has published an updated state of the lambda, giving a status report on the plan for adding lambdas to the Java language (also being tracked as JSR 335 and Java Enhancement Proposal number 126. Read on to find out what's new.
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Universal Password Storage in Windows 8
Furthering their commitment to ubiquitous access, Windows 8 plans on offering universal password management. Windows 8 credential storage is intended to tie all other usernames names and password into a single account that will travel with the user. And this feature will be usable from all applications.
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SQL Test Brings tSQLt Unit Testing to SQL Server Management Studio
SQL Test is the user interface for tSQLt, the open source unit testing framework for SQL Server. From the SQL Test window, users can create test classes, view existing unit tests, execute them, and view the results within a dockable panel in SQL Server Management Studio.
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An Update on Google Native Client
Beside C/C++, Google Native Client has added support for runtimes such as Mono, and a richer set of Pepper interfaces: accelerated 3D, full-screen, File IO, debugging, and others. New languages -Lua, TCL, OCaml- are being ported, and several major producers have ported their game engines or their games to NaCl.
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Windows Store Requires Processor Types to Be Treated Equally
Microsoft has released the certification requirements for Metro style apps sold at the Windows Store. They range from technical specifications to strict controls on content. Not even processor types can be discriminated against.
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Windows Azure Gets Node.js, SQL Azure Federation, Increased DB Limits
Windows Azure team announced major updates including support for Node.js, better scalability for SQL Azure through Federation and higher individual DB Size limits (upto 150 GB), a limited preview for Hadoop and more.
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D1 is Being Discontinued in 2012
Digital Mars, makers of the C++ alternative D, have decided to discontinue the original version of D. They had been maintaining D1 along with its successor D2 since 2007, but with the later now well established they feel it is no longer appropriate to dedicate resources to the older language past December 2012.
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Spring 3.1 is GA Today - Adds Java 7 Support, Environment Abstraction and Cache Abstraction
SpringSource have announced the general availability of Spring 3.1 today. InfoQ spoke to Chris Beams, a core committer on the Spring framework, to find out more about the release, and plans for Spring 3.2.
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Azul Releases Open Source jHiccup Tool to Provide Response Time Analysis of the Java Run
Azul Systems have today announced the release of jHiccup, an open source tool designed to measure the pauses and stalls (or "hiccups") associated with an application's underlying Java runtime platform.
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.NET Framework Support for Cloud Foundry Through Open Source Contribution From Tier 3
Cloud service provider Tier 3 has released Iron Foundry, a .NET-friendly fork of VMware’s Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service. Iron Foundry gives the sizeable number of .NET developers an open source alternative to Windows Azure and lets them participate in the increasingly popular Cloud Foundry ecosystem.