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Agile adoption changes organizations policies and facilities
A number of organizations have recently acknowledged the impact that adopting Agile techniques has had beyond the software development areas. This news item examines the impact on two very different organisations - SAP in the design of their new cloud computing development facility and Valve Software Corporation's employment policies.
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Jury Finds Only 9 Lines of Copyrighted Code in Oracle vs Google Case
The jury in the Oracle vs Google case has returned, finding only that the 9 lines of source code in the 'TimSort' implementation infringed Oracle's copyrights. The jury also followed Judge Alsup's instructions to find that the SSO was copyrightable and thus infringing, but this decision will be determined by the Judge at the end of the trial.
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A Statically Compiled Ruby for iOS
A statically compiled variant of Ruby is now available for building applications that target iOS devices. Known as RubyMotion, this language and tool chain from HipByte fully conforms to Apple’s App Store guidelines.
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That's How You're Using Story Points? No Way.
Story points are about estimating relative effort, gauging how difficult it will be to complete one feature relative to another. They are an abstraction of the cost, effort, and labor needed to produce that feature. Simple enough concept right? Wrong. Some teams are using story points to rank features rather than estimate effort. Hard to believe? Read on.
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Microsoft to C99 Developers: Use ISO C++
Developers have long requested C99 language support for Visual Studio. Microsoft's Herb Sutter indicates this will not be forthcoming with VS11 and proposes two solutions: using ISO C++ compliant code or switch to a competitor's compiler.
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Running MSTest in SharpDevelop
SharpDevelop currently comes with support for NUnit and offers the Gallio Addin for MBUnit. Recently Matt Ward announced the addition of MSTest support via a new add-on.
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Azavea Announces Release of GeoTrellis under GPLv3 License
Azavea a company based in Philadelphia that provides products for geographical data, has published an open source product called GeoTrellis under GNU GPL v3 license which is a geographic data processing engine for high performance applications.
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The Management View of Agile - Unaware or Unwilling?
A series of recent articles by Steve Denning on Forbes have highlighted the challenges that the Agile community faces to get acceptance by mainstream management.
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The Exact Science of Communication Patterns
Alex "Sandy" Pentland, professor of MIT, talks about his experiments with sociometric badges in context of teams productivity in his interview for Harvard Business Review. His research can help in defining optimal communication patters that will make you and your team members more efficient and more satisfied at work.
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Localizing Your Windows 8 App
In the article “Develop your app for everyone–localize your UI”, Tim Heuer shows how to localize the language of a Windows 8 .NET App along with various tools that can help in the process.
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vert.x – JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js
Vert.x is a framework for the next generation of asynchronous, scalable, concurrent applications, which aims to provide an alternative to Node.js for the JVM. It allows developers to write their application using JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy, Java or even mix and match.
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MoSH - The Mobile Shell
The Mobile Shell takes a number of new approaches in providing shell connections for mobile and roaming clients.
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An Uncertain Future for Visual Studio Express
The future of Visual Studio Express is uncertain. While there definitely will be an Express editions, it looks like the only variants will be for Windows 8 and Web. Those wishing to do desktop development using C++, VB, or C# and VS 11 may need to purchase Visual Studio Standard or higher.
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XobotOS: Android Build on C# Instead of Java
Xamarin, the current care takers of the Mono project, have released a prototype of Android with the Java virtual machine completely removed. In its place is the Mono for Android version of the CLR, with most of the Java APIs converted into C# code.
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Java 7u4 Brings Support for OSX
With the release of Java 7u4, Oracle has finally provided an OSX install of the JDK and JavaFX SDK. The update also brings new features, such as the G1 garbage collector and the JCMD diagnostic framework. Read on to find out more.