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Weeding Out "Bluffers"?
A few weeks back Steve Jones asserted that IT valued technology over thinking. Well now he follows up on this with the belief that some of this problem is down to bluffers who manage to get senior jobs in the industry based solely on buzzwords and are ignorant of IT reality and landscape. So Steve suggests a couple of ways to try to weed out these bluffers at an early stage.
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Using Custom Conventions In .NET
Conventions Over Configuration approach used in several places by .NET designers allow nomenclature conventions to avoid excessive configuration. While the default conventions are helpful in getting up and running quickly, it can be useful sometimes to change the default behavior. We look at a few examples.
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Gartner’s Software Hype Cycles for 2012
In a series of reports, Gartner has evaluated the maturity, adoption and future direction of more than 1,900 technologies and trends for 2012.
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Microsoft Release New REST API Framework as Part of .NET 4.5
As part of the recent Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 launch, Microsoft formally unveiled its new web services framework called the ASP.NET Web API. Included as part of the ASP.NET MVC 4 offering, the open-source ASP.NET Web API is designed to simplify the development and consumption of RESTful services.
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CQRS Guidance Project On MSDN
The Patterns and Practices team at MSDN recently announced a CQRS Journey Guidance project – the project walks through building a fictional Contoso Conference Management System using DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing.
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A Microsoft Branded Service Bus without BizTalk
For quite some time now BizTalk has been essentially on life support. Being both very complex and very expensive, it was never a particularly popular product. None the less, many companies used it because they trust the Microsoft name and actually do need some sort of enterprise service bus. Seeing this gap, Microsoft has created a new product called Microsoft Service Bus 1.0 for Windows Server.
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OpenXava 4.5 Supports JPA Inheritance Mapping and Automated Business Logic
The latest version of OpenXava, a Java framework for rapid development of enterprise applications, supports all strategies of JPA inheritance mapping and the Automated Business Logic (ABL) library. OpenXava version 4.5 was released last month.
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Google Has Open Sourced Octane, a New JavaScript Benchmark Suite
Google has open sourced Octane, a JavaScript benchmarking suite consisting of 13 tests measuring browser performance.
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Community-Driven Research: Most Important and Mature Cross Platform Mobile Tools?
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a 4th question: "What are the Most Important and Mature Cross Platform Mobile Tools?". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Introducing SQL Server to MySQL Migration Tool from Oracle
Oracle recently announced a new migration tool, which provides an ability to quickly migrate data and applications from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL with less time and effort. The migration tool which has been integrated into MySQL Workbench, allows visual design, development and administration of MySQL databases with an advanced logging and security mechanism.
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On Lucene.Net: Becoming a Top-level Apache Project and Its Future
Lucene.Net, a C# port of the Lucene text search index library, has graduated the Incubator and has become a top-level Apache project. This article contains an interview with Prescott Nasser on the future of the project and Solr.Net.
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Blend for Visual Studio 2012: Updated UX Tool for Windows 8 Applications
Microsoft has announced the new Blend for Visual Studio 2012, a tool to design user interfaces for HTML and XAML applications in Windows Store 8. All versions of Visual Studio 2012 come with Blend, including Express.
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Entity Framework, Async – In Mono!
Entity Framework has been integrated into the Mono distribution as of 2.11.3 which means it can now be used even outside of the Windows platform. Mono also gets Async support on par with .NET 4.5.
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Improved User Experience with Semantic Zoom
Semantic Zoom is a new touch optimized feature in Windows 8 to present and navigate large sets of content within a single view and to display data controls that leverage deferred loading. With the help of semantic zoom, users can zoom in to inspect individual records or zoom out to see a group of data in a consumable, secondary visualization.
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Do we need an alternative to the product backlog?
A product backlog left unattended can become large and unmaintainable. The common approach of reviewing and updating the backlog regularly might be ineffective in the longer term, demanding alternatives to backlog grooming.