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Most Important Software Development Trends for 2012, as Voted by QCon London Attendees
This is a survey of the most important software development trends for 2012, as voted by the attendees of QCon London 2012. It includes technologies like Big Data, HTML5, Mobile, NoSQL, Continuous Integration, GPUs & Multicore, Cloud - PaaS, Cloud - SaaS, Cloud - IaaS, Asynchronous Technologies, Lean, Scrum, Google Dart.
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Frustration with the Role and Purpose of Architects on Software Projects
Is software architecture a poorly done and frequently neglected aspect of software projects? That’s the position put forth in a recent blog post by Simon Brown, an independent consultant and founder of CodingTheArchitecture.com. Brown contends that miscast architects and a casual approach to architecture on agile projects have contributed to the poor state of the architecture discipline.
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Security vulnerabilities with HTML5 (WebSockets)?
Lori Macvittie recently raised concerns about WebSockets vulnerabilities to viruses and malware due to the removal of HTTP headers and MIME types. Given other reported security issues with the protocol and implementations, is it time to step back and consider what a world based on WebSockets should look like?
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Does BPM-in-the-Cloud Require RESTful Services? ZapThink Says Yes, but Doubts Exist.
Jason Bloomberg of ZapThink claimed that cloud-based Business Process Management (BPM) software will be disruptive to those traditional BPM engines that cannot easily move to a cloud delivery model. Instead of describing the value proposition of BPM-in-the-cloud, Bloomberg’s article focused primarily on his assertion that REST-based services are a necessity for any cloudy BPM engine to work.
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Secure Code Development: A Casualty With Agile?
Agile teams are known to produce reliable and high quality code quickly. However, it is also a fact that pressure to deliver quickly might result in short cut reviews, curtailed testing and lack of attention to secure code. Is secure development as good as wishful thinking with Agile?
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Cloud Computing Can Innovate the Business Model and Will Create New Jobs
An IBM study proposes six cloud computing enablers for the business model innovation, while an IDC paper estimates that cloud computing will create 14M jobs worldwide by 2015.
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Pivot-Thinking – The Neuroscience of Design
The Center of Professional Development at the Stanford University offers a free live seminar on 8th March (9.00 am / PST) addressing the thinking behind design thinking. Pivot thinking is a new research area that addresses how to bridge the gap between "convergers" and "divergers" in teams which is particularly interesting for software engineering projects.
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SEI Publishes The CERT Guide to Insider Threats Book
What do ACTA, SEPA, PIPA, Stuxnet, Google have in common? They all have been hot topics in the press during the last months and they are dealing with information security. What, however, is commonly forgotten are internal threats related to espionage and stealing of company information.
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WebSockets versus REST?
With WebSockets now a W3C Candidate Recommendation and a new JSR about to start in the JCP, the question arises about how and if WebSockets work with the principles of REST? Do they compliment each other, or will WebSockets, as some people believe, divert attention away from REST and towards a new style of interaction for the Web? There is even the suggestion that WebSockets "breaks the Web".
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Economics of AWS Application Hosting
With the recent advances in cloud computing and Amazon Web Services infrastructure, many companies are trying to abandon their IT shops and move their software to the cloud. In his new blog post, Charlie Oppenheimer discusses the economics of cloud computing, comparing it with traditional data centers.
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MySQL Cluster 7.2 Released with 70x Increased Performance and NoSQL Features
Oracle fires a new round for the heart of the NoSQL market. This 7.2 release of MySQL Cluster has new features putting it head to head with other NoSQL solutions including REST, memcached wire protocol, NoSQL C++, and standard MySQL interfaces. Oracle boasts 70x speed gains for complex queries using MapReduce like distributed joins. Is the world ready for a MySQL/NoSQL hybrid from Oracle?
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QCon comes to New York: June 18-22, 2012; Registration Open!
The first annual QCon New York, taking place June 18-22, 2012 is now open for registration ($700 savings until Feb 26th). QCon San Francisco has been sold out for the last two years and we are excited to bring the conference to the east coast!
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Effective Scala - Best Practices from Twitter
Twitter has open sourced its Effective Scala guide. The document is on GitHub and is licensed under CC-BY 3.0. Scala is one of the primary programming languages used at Twitter, and most of the Twitter infrastructure is written in Scala. The Effective Scala guide is a series of short essays, a set of "best practices" learned from using Scala inside Twitter.
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Per Aspera ad ACTA–Worse than SOPA and PIPA?
According to news magazines, people worldwide are more and more against ACTA. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is intended to reduce copyright infringement and stealing of intellectual property rights. However, opponents fear the loss of civil rights. And the treaty may also have a large impact on software engineers.
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Sparx Systems Has Released Enterprise Architect 9.2
Sparx Systems, an Austrian based vendor of UML tools, has recently published version 9.2 of Enterprise Architect. The new version adds features like enhanced simulation capability and support for describing ontologies.