InfoQ Homepage News
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Using Feedback Techniques for the gov.uk Website
Jake Benilov will give a talk on September 27 at Agile Tour Brussels about feedback techniques used for making gov.uk. InfoQ did an interview with Jake about using the feedback techniques and how the team applies lean startup with minimum viable products to do user research.
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PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio with Editor, Debugger Extensions and Project System Support
PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio has been released with features such as syntax highlighting, IntelliSense, code folding, function navigation, script Output in addition to support for breakpoint, locals, stack frame and project system.
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QConSF '13: JS Creator Brendan Eich Keynote Confirmed; Engineering Culture, Hadoop, NoBackend
71% of speakers have been confirmed - including keynoters Brendan Eich and Rich Hickey - for the 7th annual QCon San Francisco 2013. New to the schedule this year: In-depth tracks on Hadoop, Engineering Culture, 'NoBackend', and the API Lifecycle. QConSF will take place at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco at the Embarcadero on November 11-15, 2013. Register before Oct 25th and save $400.
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Natively Compiled Tables in SQL Server 2014
Originally this report was titled “Natively Compiled Queries”, but that doesn’t do justice to how deep this runs. When a memory optimized table is created, SQL Server will create a DLL specifically for that table. All data access for the table, including indexes, occurs through this DLL.
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InfoQ's Interview with Trevor Eckhart- “Discoverer” of Carrier IQ Root Kit
Trevor Eckhart became a household name when his video demonstrating Carrier IQ software in action and the questions that it engendered went viral. Culminating in the Department of Homeland Security’s recent recommendation to government employees to ensure that their mobile devices are Carrier IQ-free. InfoQ caught up with Mr. Eckhart for an update on this perceived threat to mobile privacy.
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Chrome to Drop Support for NPAPI Plugins Including Java, Silverlight, and Unity
Stating that “NPAPI’s 90s-era architecture has become a leading cause of hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code complexity”, Google intends to remove the Netscape Plug-in API. This is the plug-in technology used host application runtimes such as Silverlight, Java, and Unity. They are beginning the process in January by disabling all plugins not a small whitelist.
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Indexes in SQL Server 2014's Memory Optimized Tables
SQL Server 2014’s Memory Optimized Tables handle indexes very differently than traditional tables. First and foremost, you must have at least one index and cannot have more than eight indexes. Only the primary key can be marked as unique and don’t even think about foreign keys or filtered indexes.
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Icenium Mist Adds ZIP Upload, Remote GIT, Moving Code Blocks and Keyboard Shortcuts
Icenium Mist enables you to extract the contents of a ZIP file including the ability to access GIT remotely. It also provides support for moving code blocks within the code editor and also adds keyboar shortcuts for commonly used tasks.
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JRuby 9K Expected in 2014 Ready for Production
Charles Nutter, one of the lead developers of JRuby, announced the release of version 9000 (9K) in 2014. The new release targets the same feature set as Ruby MRI 2.0 and possibly 2.1 as well. Better performance, concurrency support and overall availability and portability provided by the use of the JVM can make this version suitable for production systems.
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Just in Time Notifications for Visual Studio 2013
Visual Studio 2013 is integrating a revised Notification Center to inform when updates are available and quickly prioritize their importance.
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Lock-Free Writes in SQL Server 2014
In SQL Server 2014 Microsoft will be unveiling its lock-free technology known as Memory Optimized Tables. Using a new storage and query subsystem, these represent a radical departure from traditional database design.
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Why You Should Care About Behaviour-Driven Development
Agile has helped us move away from creating upfront requirements but we still have a huge amount of waste with lots of discovery and misunderstandings late in sprints. BDD is meant to decrease this by improving the communication between people working in the problem and solution domains, Matt Wynne states in a recent overview of Behaviour-Driven Development.
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Apache Tez - a Generalization of the MapReduce Data Processing
A new Apache incubator project, Tez, generalizes the MapReduce paradigm to execute a complex DAG (directed acyclic graph) of tasks.
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TFS 2013 Power Tools Adds Check-in policies, Process Template Editor, Windows PowerShell Cmdlets
Microsoft recently released Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools which includes best practices analyzer, check-in policies, process template editor, storyboard shapes, command line tool, Windows PowerShell Cmdlets, Windows Shell extension and work item templates.
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Amazon Web Services Stability and the September 13th US East 1 Outage
Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered another outage of its US East 1 region during the morning of Friday 13th September. A number of popular applications such as Heroku, Github and CMSWire were disrupted along with many other customers in Amazon’s largest, oldest and busiest location.