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How Agile Can Yield Effective IT Business Alignment
In agile projects the product owner is often seen as the person who primary assures the connection between business and IT. But for effective IT-Business alignment having a product owner is not enough. What can people from the business, demand and supply parts of the organization do increase the effectiveness of IT – Business alignment?
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Microsoft Azure Joins SSD Storage Bandwagon
Microsoft has announced a new family of virtual machines called D-Series that offers better memory, CPU and faster I/O. With this Azure joins the club of elite IaaS providers with SSD backed storage.
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Intern 2.1 Brings New HTML and JUnit reporters
Sitepen has released version 2.1 of Intern, its next generation JavaScript testing stack. Intern brings with it new HTML and JUnit reporters, grep and skip functions, and improved performance.
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PureScript: A Haskell-like Language that Compiles to JavaScript
PureScript is a strongly, statically typed language which compiles to JavaScript. It is written in and inspired by Haskell and aims at "allowing to write very expressive code which is still clear and readable" when translated into JavaScript. Furthermore, says PureScript creator Phil Freeman, PureScript provides interoperability with other languages which target JavaScript.
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Value of Certifications for Agile Transformation
Does agile certification depict the knowledge of professional? Thoughts shared by various thought leaders.
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Core Support for JSON in Java 9
One of the first Java 9 features to be announced is core support for JSON. We spoke to early adopters to find out more.
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The Return of Java Modularity
Oracle have announced the relaunch of Project Jigsaw, devoted to bringing full modularity to the Java Platform.
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Parse Gets a Refresh for iOS 8
Parse has announced its new SDK for iOS 8, an update to its Parse push service which now supports iOS 8 "silent" pushes and notification categories, and a new Parse Config API to store configuration parameters in the cloud to update apps on the fly.
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Does Continuous Deployment Depict Customer Disatisfaction
Continuous deployment helps organizations in delivering high quality software fast through build, test and deployment automation. It gives earlier return on investment, earlier feedback and easy process of deployment. Is continuous deployment also good from business perspective?
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Win2D: Accelerated 2D Graphics for C# But Not WPF
Windows App developers have a new way to utilize GPU to accelerate their 2D-based graphical code. New Windows Runtime API Win2D provides Universal Apps on Windows Phone and Windows Store apps a way to access DirectX without resorting to C++.
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AngularJS 1.3 Improves HTML Forms
The upcoming AngularJS 1.3 release arrives with a heavy focus on improved form data manipulation. While this version solves some real-life pain points, for some developers, it may not be an automatic upgrade.
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Microsoft WinJS 3.0 Now Supports Multiple Platforms
Microsoft has enhanced WinJS by adding support for multiple platforms and several major browsers, has modularized it and made it work with other JavaScript libraries.
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State of Testing Report
The State of Testing 2013 report contains the results of a survey done by Joel Montvelisky from PractiTest together with Tea-Time with Testers. The survey, which has been filled in by people from testing and QA communities, provides insight in the adoption of test techniques and practices, test automation, and the challenges that testers are facing.
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Details of NetBeans Day at JavaOne 2014
Oracle have announced details for NetBeans Day 2014. Particular topics of interest include Maven, a new Education initiative and an appearance by James Gosling.
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MVC 1.0 JSR Created for Java EE
Oracle recently announced a JSR for MVC 1.0. JSR 371 was motivated by results of a Java EE 8 Survey, covered by InfoQ in March of this year. 61% of those surveyed supported the idea of providing support for an action-based MVC framework, alongside JSF. Only 26% felt there was an existing framework that could do the job, and 42% of those mentioned Spring MVC.