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  • Culture Game Extract #6 Now Available from InfoQ

    Dan Mezick has written The Culture Game – a how-to book describing 16 learning patterns derived from Agile. InfoQ is publishing a series of extracts from the book. The last extract discusses the concepts of of personal mastery and belief change.

  • Grunt 0.4.0 Released: An Emphasis On Modularity

    The Grunt team updated their Javascript task runner to version 0.4.0 on February 18th in their ongoing effort to decouple the library into more modular parts.

  • Google and MPEG LA End All Disputes on VP8

    Google has obtained a license for any algorithm that may be essential to VP8 and MPEG LA has a patent for it. Google has the option to sublicense VP8 royalty-free to third party implementers, opening the way for wide adoption of the VP8 codec.

  • Stimulsoft Released Report Designer For WinRT

    Stimulsoft has released a new report designer for WinRT that enables you to create and edit reports on any device running Windows 8.

  • Vagrant Support for Amazon AWS and Rackspace

    HashiCorp's latest addition to support Amazon AWS and Rackspace as providers for Vagrant enables new usage scenarios: for the first time it will be possible to spin up Virtual Machines in the cloud instead of the developer's desktop.

  • Erlang/OTP R16B Brings Improved Parallelism

    The newley released Erlang/OTP R16B brings several performance enhancements among its new features. Code modules can now be loaded in a non-blocking manner, networking code for ports has been improved, and VM processes have been parallelized.

  • How can Agile make you Faster?

    Delivering faster is one of the reasons that enterprises mention why want to use agile for software development. How can agile be used to become faster?

  • Red Gate Announces Simply Web Dev - Curated Guide for ASP.NET MVC

    Red Gate Software based in UK has launched a new portal that enables students and developers to learn ASP.NET MVC with the help of wide range of resources.

  • Will Java 8 Solve PermGen OutOfMemoryError?

    As part of Oracle's ongoing project to merge the HotSpot and JRockit codebases, Oracle has announced that they will remove PermGen from the Java 8 version of the HotSpot JVM. The effects of the removal of PermGen can now be checked with Java 8 Early Access builds, it is time to find out if all PermGen problems have been resolved.

  • Final Preview of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Released

    The anticipated final preview of VS2012/TFS2012 Update 2 has been released. It brings a few more updates including the highlighting of the new LightSwitch HTML client.

  • Insight into the Phases of Scaling

    Christopher Smith shared insight into approaching and solving the problems of scaling web applications in his presentation "The Five Stages of Scale" at Scale11x last month. In Christopher's presentation he made a case for approaching scaling in a stages with well defined components that are either added or optimized to improve the overall scale of a web application.

  • HTC America Drops Ball on Mobile Security

    Manufacturer HTC America affirmatively acknowledged Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that millions of its customers’ Android based mobile devices were using software with potentially serious security vulnerabilities. The leading mobile device making company was ordered to make a patch available before the end of March 2013 to all concerned parties.

  • Expired SSL Certificates Break Azure and TFS

    Windows Azure experienced a 9 hour outage on February 22 that affected all users who relied on the storage system, including those using Team Foundation Service. InfoQ examines the details that have emerged surrounding the root causes of the failure.

  • Latest News from Microsoft and Amazon Regarding Android

    Microsoft Azure now has an Android SDK including notification push to Android devices. Amazon makes available a Mobile Ads API that can be used to display adds from their network on any Android device in parallel with those from Google AdMob.

  • PhoneGap 2.5 Enables Application Cache and InAppBrowser Geolocation

    PhoneGap 2.5 has been released with support for application cache and InAppBrowser geolocation including several updates and bug fixes.

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