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David J. Anderson Delivers "State of Kanban-Land" Address at the 2013 Lean Kanban Conference.
At his Keynote at the Lean Kanban conference in Chicago, Kanban pioneer David J. Anderson delivered a keynote on the state of Kanban. InfoQ captured some of the highlights of Anderson's address.
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NoBackend: Front-End First Web Development
At the Front-Trends 2013 conference last week, Gregor Martynus gave a talk entitled "Look ma, no backend!" about developing applications primarily from a front-end perspective, falling back to using server-side components only to implement the features the browser does not yet support.
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Improved Git Support Reaches Visual Studio
A new release of Visual Studio Tools for Git brings significant speed increases and improved quality of life for developers.
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Learning from Failures with The Lean Startup
The lean startup is about fast delivery of desired products to customers, and increasing your understanding about the needs of customers. With the lean startup, people can learn faster from failures and become better innovators. There are teachers that use a lean startup based approach in education, which helps their students to learn faster.
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Are Older Programmers More Knowledgeable?
A recent study based on Stack Overflow’s data attempts to answer if programming knowledge is related to age, if older programmers are more knowledgeable and if they acquire new skills or not.
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FoundationDB NoSQL Database Supports ACID Transactions
FoundationDB database platform combines NoSQL scalability with ACID transactions across all data within the database. FoundationDB team announced last month the availability of its new NoSQL database platform.
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Events bring Simplicity to a System's Architecture
Using events for interactions between small business components can bring simplicity to a system’s architecture, Russ Miles explained in a presentation last week talking about Architectural Simplicity through Events.
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Windows Azure Adds Iaas, Virtual Machine, Virtual Network and Hourly Billing Support
Windows Azure has been updated with support for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Windows and Linux virtual machine images, virtual networks with persistent private IPs, increased OS Size including hourly billing mechanism for SQL Server and BizTalk Server virtual machine images.
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Clang Completes C++11 Support
Developers looking to utilize all of the features of the C++11 standard can now look to the Clang compiler. The project has completed its effort to provide full support for C++11.
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What Is Idempotent in REST?
What Is Idempotent in REST? One of the important aspects of REST (or at least HTTP) is the concept that some operations (verbs) are idempotent. Idempotency is also discussed in the SOA Design Patterns. For instance, does it matter if an operation only appears to be idempotent to users, when in fact it does change some state, such as updating a logger?
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Analyze Public .NET Code with Code Digger
Code Digger, a Visual Studio 2012 extension released by Microsoft Research enables you to dissect Public .NET code to trap bugs, exceptions and assertion failures.
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Jenkins CI Server Plugin Drives SOASTA CloudTest Server
Earlier this month, SOASTA and CloudBees released a plugin for the Jenkins continuous integration (or CI) server to run automated tests on real physical mobile devices. SOASTA released this plugin with optimizations that were developed by the creator of Jenkins, Kohsuke Kawaguchi. The plugin provides build steps for performing operations and testing mobile devices.
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Behind the 2012 VersionOne State of Agile Survey
VersionOne recently released the results of their State of Agile Development Survey for 2012, and once again it proved to be an interesting indicator of Agile adoption and trends.
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Develop Financial Applications with F# and QuantLib
The usage of Microsoft F# in conjunction with QuantLib provides extensive possibilities for developers to build quantitative financial applications and this news report examines the steps required to create a simple F# application with QuantLib.
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Mobile App Developers in Violation of Privacy Laws
Even if an app developer is a geek of the highest order, deftly orchestrating multiple code languages to fulfill their legal obligation for a comprehensive privacy protection policy, it all may be compromised when they permit their mobile app to funnel clients’ personal data, such as; texts, photos, geolocation, audio or video to an ad agency, MBaaS provider or other third party player.