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Leadership for Self-Organized Agile Teams
Organizations that implement self-organized agile teams need managers who empowerer the teams by using servant leadership, and who coach and mentor them to learn and continuously improve themselves.
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Netflix Gives Up Silverlight, Chooses HTML5
Netflix has announced their intent to switch their video player from Silverlight to HTML5, the first implementation of the new player being done in Chrome/Chrome OS, with Windows and Mac OS X following soon.
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LeanSentry Adds Smart Alerts, Error Highlighting and Classic ASP Support
LeanSentry, formerly Sentinel has been updated with support for smart alerts, error highlighting, enhanced dashboard, classic ASP support in addition to several diagnostics features.
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Asynchronous Gotchas in C#
Sometimes the best way to understand pitfalls in one language is to see how another language prevents them. Tomas Petricek, author of Real-World Functional Programming, discusses seven common mistakes found in asynchronous C# code and demonstrates how F# makes them less likely to occur.
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Dart's M4 Release Stabilizes Core Libraries
The Google Dart team has released milestone 4 of its SDK. While the language had already stabilized in previous milestones, this M4 release stabilizes some core libraries. Performance has also improved. The DartVM, which runs Dart natively, is now between 160% (for the DeltaBlue benchmark) and 200% (for the Richards benchmark) faster than v8. The release also includes the faster dart2js compiler.
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Release of the Microsoft Script Explorer Canceled
Microsoft has canceled the release of their Script Explorer. This tool was designed to make it easier to find PowerShell scripts located in either public repositories (e.g. TechNet Script Center and PoshCode) or a company’s internal collection.
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A Merge Tool that Understands Functions
Codice Software, maker of Plastic SCM, has released a preview of a semantic merge tool. This tool parses your code, allowing for a more accurate merge than the line-by-line comparisons most tools use. We interviewed Pablo Santos Luaces, Principal Software Engineer of Codice Software.
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IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 Lands with JavaFX 2.0 Support
JetBrains has begun shipping IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 which sees the IDE gaining full support for JavaFX 2.0, the latest incarnation of the Java client platform. Version 12.1 of popular IDE also includes new features for Gradle, Scala, Groovy and Play Framework users.
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Google Releases Mirror API for Glass
Google has released the Mirror API for writing Glassware applications and the final specification for Glass devices.
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Microsoft Makes Infrastructure Cloud Generally Available, Matches AWS Prices
Today, Microsoft took their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud product – called Windows Azure Infrastructure Services – out of preview and made it available to the general public. Microsoft is entering a crowded IaaS market but they’ve committed to matching cloud leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) on price while also promising enterprise-class SLAs and services.
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JSON Validation Roundup
Create any “flexible” or “extensible” file format and sooner or later a group of developers will start complaining about validation. For JSON, several options are starting to spring up.
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Windows Azure Adds Active Directory, New Backup Service, Monitoring and Log Improvements
Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows Azure Active Directory, new backup service with support for incremental backups including several monitoring and log improvements.
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Portable Class Library Support for Noda Time
Noda Time, the advanced date/time library for .NET, is now available for Windows 8, Windows Phone 7, and Windows Phone 8. This version also offers a NuGet package and a comprehensive user’s guide.
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Continuous Delivery Speeds Up Innovation
Thoughtworks recently published a whitepaper including a maturity model for continuous delivery (or CD) as a response to research indicating that most companies understand the importance of innovation, but are not able to deliver software quickly enough to meet the needs of business leaders.
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Sails 0.8.9: A Rails-Inspired Real-Time Node MVC Framework
Version 0.8.9 of Sails, a real-time MVC framework built atop node.js, was released on April 9th by Austin, TX-based Balderdash in an ongoing effort to bring a Rails-like development platform to modern web apps