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Agile 2012 Keynote Speakers Announced
The Agile Alliance has anounced the keynote speakers for the Agile 2012 conference being held in Dallas, Texas, on 13017 August 2012.
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Microsoft Redefines AnyCPU for Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5
Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 are changing the default runtime platform.
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Cloud Foundry Celebrates First Anniversary By Highlighting Its Community
At an VMware-hosted event in Palo Alto, the Cloud Foundry team summarized their first year as an open source, multi-language Platform as a Service (PaaS). VMware CTO Steve Herrod pointed to the project’s strong developer adoption and thriving ecosystem as proof that this platform has staying power.
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New Asynchronous Features Enhance .NET Framework 4.5
.NET Framework 4.5 Beta not only brings the Async/Await keywords and language simplifications to C# and Visual Basic, but also adds asynchronous methods to several common I/O and data access functions. New asynchronous features are available in ASP.NET 4.5, WCF, and WPF as well.
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The Future Of JBoss Seam And Apache DeltaSpike
Seam 3.1 is the last "bundled" release from JBoss. The project continues in the form of Apache DeltaSpike (currently in incubation) an attempt to combine all individual efforts on CDI extensions.
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Entity Framework 5 - Performance Considerations
While Entity Framework (EF) 5 promises to bring significant performance improvements over EF 4, there are still some considerations to be aware of to use the ORM effectively – namely, View generation, Caching, auto-compiled queries, Query execution options and Design-time considerations.
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JDK 8 Milestone and Release Dates
Oracle has posted in the jdk8-dev mailing list the JDK 8 milestone and release dates for review and feedback.
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Achieving More By Doing One Thing at A Time
A recent Harvard Business Review article highlights the importance of finishing one task at a time and hence getting more work done. Some of the core Agile practices help minimize context switching and bring a similar task focus while building software.
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Interview: James Newton-King on Json.NET 4.5
The Json.NET project just released version 4.5 of their JSON framework for .NET which includes many new features and a dramatic speed enhancement. InfoQ recently spoke with Json.NET creator James Newton-King about the new release and the project as a whole.
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PMI Announces Softening of Requirements for New PMI-ACP Certification
The Project Management Institute is softening the eligibility requirements to qualify for their new PMI ACP (Agile Certified Professional) certification test. Previously individuals needed 1,500 hours of experience working on an agile project, with those hours accrued over the last two years. Now the requirement is 1,500 hours of experience on an agile project accrued over the last three years.
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.NET 4.5 Compatibility And Multi-Targeting
The upcoming .NET Framework 4.5 being an in-place upgrade to .NET 4.0 has given rise to concerns on how this can introduce breaking changes as well as make multi-targeting difficult. In his article “.NET Versioning and Multi-Targeting..” Scott Hanselman addresses these concerns.
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An Introduction to Software Quality
In two recent papers, David Chappell, Principal of Chappell & Associates, outlines the different aspects of software quality – functional, structural, and process-, the groups of people directly interested in quality –users, developers, and sponsors-, and the outcome of defects in externally or internally facing software over time.
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Oracle and Google go to Court
Last month, Judge Paul Grewal ordered the Oracle and Google to attempt to negotiate a settlement. Google offered a $2.8 million settlement on condition that Oracle can prove patent infringement. However, Oracle rejected that offer as too low, so the case will go to court on the 16th April.
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Agile Humour: A Wrap Up of April Fools Day 2012
The Agile community has a great tradition of making fun of itself and April Fools Day 2012 was no exception. Here is a wrap up of some of the best gags from this year that you may have missed.
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OSGi Abandons Snapshot Proposal
With the recently-released OSGi Release 5 early access documents, one of the most anticipated features of the upcoming specification – that of SNAPSHOT style versions for OSGi – has been dropped from the specification because of concerns with existing tooling. Read on to find out why.