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Agile Governance: The Bridge Between Management and IT
Traditional project governance is used to describe the rules and processes that need to exist to ensure a successful project. At first glance the concept of governance and Agile seem to be incompatible however, most Agilists would agree that just enough governance might do more good than bad for the Agile project.
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Expression Web SuperPreview Allows Simultaneous Cross-Browser Testing
Expression Web SuperPreview allows developers to render web pages in different browsers simultaneously to detect layout issues. SuperPreview will be available as a standalone version as well as integrated into Expression Web. The standalone version will be made available for free and a trial version is available for download today, named Expression Web SuperPreview for Windows Internet Explorer.
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MIX 09: Clemens Vasters on Azure Service Bus
Clemens demonstrated the capabilities and the programming model of the Azure Service Bus. The ASB offers secure and reliable functionality for connecting business partners, services and composite applications across the Internet.
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Microsoft Introduces .Net RIA Services
Yesterday, Microsoft released .Net RIA Services which was mostly in stealth mode until now. In his presentation at MIX 09, Nikhil Kothari, explained "n-tier development and architecture is hard and un-natural. Our goal is to bring ASP.NET / RAD style productivity to RIA developmend"
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Eric Newcomer On Difference Between RESTful vs. Web Service Transactions
Eric Newcomer, chair of the OSGi Alliance Enterprise Expert Group and former CTO of IONA Technologies, posted an answer to the question “What is the difference between RESTful transactions and Web Services transactions?”
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Improving the Business Process Simulation
While interest in Business Process Management increases, Business Process Simulation is becoming more and more important. Recent blog posts by Keith Swenson and Bruce Silver discuss important aspects of the Business Process Simulation.
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MIX 09: Microsoft Announces SilverLight 3, Expression 3, ASP.Net 4, Web-PI, Web Galery and More
In a breath taking keynote, Microsoft announced its new wave of technologies addressing the needs of Web, Media and RIA development. Bill Buxton and Scott Guthrie demonstrated the new features that bring user experience and productivity to a new level.
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ReSharper 4.5 Beta Promises Better Performance
A few days ago ReSharper 4.5 Beta was released by JetBrains. This new version promise better performance and less memory consumption. New features include VB9 support, native MSTest support, "Go to Implementation" and improved compatibility with F#, Compact Framework and Silverlight.
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JAX-WS 2.2 and Metro 2.0 Nightly Available
Rama Pulavarthi, member of the Java Web Services group at Sun Microsystems, has reported on the availability of the JAX-WS 2.2 and Metro 2.0 nightly builds. JAX-WS 2.2 is mainly aimed to add support for WS-Addressing 1.0 - Metadata specification and Metro 2.0 is scheduled to be delivered on GlassFish v3.
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Cloudera Seeks to Make Hadoop More Accessible With Packaged Distribution
Numerous projects have sprouted up around the popular Hadoop open source implementation of map reduce in the last year. Now Cloudera is releasing Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, an open source product seeking to make it easier for company's to begin using Hadoop.
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Which SOA Testing Tool?
Eric Roch asks what makes a good SOA testing tool? He provides a list of criteria that he used to evaluate the range of tools available.
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SOA: Where Do We Go From Here?
"Enough wrangling over whether SOA is dead, or is thriving, or never even existed, or crashed somewhere near Roswell, New Mexico. The indisputable fact is many organizations are now working toward service orientation for at least part of their business application offerings, and this will only grow.", says Joe Mckendrick, so where do we go from here?
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Red Hat and Microsoft Get Together in the Virtualization Arena
Red Hat has announced an agreement with Microsoft to support each other’s guests on their virtualization servers including coordinated technical support.
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A Study: Ways To Make Web 2.0 Work In The Enterprise
The McKinsey Quarterly Report published a study that spanned the last couple years and more than 50 early adopter enterprises. The purpose of the study was to gain insight into successful adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise.
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Avoiding Three Common Mistakes when Implementing XML and Web Services
In his new comment, IBM’s Kyle Brown examines three different common anti-patterns, or "worst practices," that can make adopting Web Services and SOA implementations more difficult than it needs to be.