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A Look Back at NDoc and Sandcastle
The history of NDoc and Sandcastle is long and sordid. We take a brief look at that history and then check in on their successor, the Sandcastle Help File Builder.
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How a Feel Good Manager can Foster and Grow Culture
In the article culture is the true north Arne Roock talked about the “feel good manager”: a role which helps to foster and grow the culture in an organization. InfoQ talked with Magdalena Bethge, Feel Good Manager at Jimdo, about supporting the culture and collaboration, happiness, and helping employees to find their work-life balance.
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Comparing the Performance of Various Web Frameworks
TechEmpower has been running benchmarks for the last year, attempting to measure and compare the performance of web frameworks. For these benchmarks the term “framework” is used loosely including platforms and micro-frameworks.
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Coverity Scan Gets Better with Java, Apache Hadoop, HBase and Cassandra Support
The recently released open source scan report by Coverity mainly detected and fixed Resource Leaks, Null Pointer and Control Flow issues besides several other issues. It also scanned the source code of Linux and fixed several bugs.
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BASIC Turns Fifty
The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Set, first used on 1st May 1964, turned fifty yesterday. More widely known as BASIC, in introduced a generation to programming, kick-starting many who would then go onto a path to technology in the future. InfoQ looks back at the memorable moments as well as looking to the future.
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Kin Lane on How API Commons Will Shape the Future of Web APIs
InfoQ asked Kin Lane, the leading API evangelist, to share his views on open API designs and on what led him to launch the API Commons initiative with Steven Wilmott. He explains how translation and interoperability between the emerging API description languages matters, and how an open internet culture should prevent API Commons from making the same mistakes as past initiatives like UDDI.
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Promises: The New Async Standard in Browser JavaScript?
Everybody who did more than some basic work with JavaScript has come across asynchronous programming. However, opinions on how properly deal with this asynchrony has been a long ongoing debate in the JavaScript world. However, with the arrival of native promises in EcmaScript 6, future browser APIs will start using promises instead (where appropriate).
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Java ME 8 General Availability Release
Oracle principal product manager Terrence Barr announced the release today of Java ME 8, further aligning Java ME 8 with Java SE 8 and the Internet of Things
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Practices for Agile Coaching Conversations
Organizations can work with agile coaches for the adoption of agile. Coaches use conversations to support people in the organization to change their way of working. Which practices do you use in agile coaching conversations?
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Agile 2014 Program and Speakers Announced
The Agile Alliance has announced the program and speaker lineup for the Agile 2014 conference and the Agile Executive Forum to be held in Orlando, FL, USA at the end of July 2014.
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PuppetLabs Announces Deeper Integration with Microsoft Azure
Following previous announcements on Puppet modules targeted to manage Windows and Linux machines running in the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, PuppetLabs, the company behind popular DevOps tool Puppet, has announced at the Microsoft Build Developer Conference new integration points for Windows and Azure users.
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Edge.js Adds Support for Linux and Mac OS X So C# and Node.js Can Run Anywhere
The Edge.js project allows developers to combine C# with Node.js, within a single process. The latest release adds support for Linux and Mac OS X, allowing developers to use the environment they want for development and hosting.
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Groovy 2.3 gets a much faster JSON Parser
Groovy 2.3 will ship with one of the fastest JSON parsers on the JVM, according to Rick Hightower, the ubiquitous consultant and author.
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Oracle NoSQL Database 3.0 Supports Table Data Model and Secondary Indexing
The latest version of Oracle NoSQL Database supports tabular data model, secondary indexing, security enhancements via Oracle Wallet integration, and data center enhancements. Oracle recently announced the release of version 3.0 of the distributed key-value database.
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Agile Development Races Ahead of Traditional Testing
A report on why agile development races ahead of traditional testing, reasons and new agile testing trends.