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A New Game for Learning Agile
A new learning game designed for "stuck" teams, to help them overcome obstacles which hold them them back from their big, but difficult-to-reach, goals has been released by Deborah Preuss and Friends. Based on patterns from the book Fearless Change by Linda Rising and Mary Lynn Manns the game is designed to help teams explore influence strategies and approaches for overcoming obstacles.
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LLBLGen Pro 3.5 Adds OData and SQL Server 2012 Support, Designer Improvements
Version 3.5 of the ORM tool LLBLGen Pro was released this week, and includes updates to Entity Framework and NHibernate functionality, designer improvements, and several updates to the runtime, such as support for OData and SQL Server 2012.
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Mono 2.11 Brings C# 5 Async Support
Mono 2.11 is the first of a series of preview releases designed to showcase the next version of Mono. Among other things there is an emphasis on compatibility with .NET 4.5 and C# 5.0.
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How Heroku Manages High Availability - QCon London Talk summary
Mark McGranaghan gave his talk about "High Availability at Heroku" at QCon London 2012. His most important points and take-aways are summarized in this report.
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Visual Studio 11 Performance Revisited
Microsoft continues to respond to user requests for improved Visual Studio performance. InfoQ reviews the latest changes made to VS11 Beta.
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Hardware Accelerated Emulation for Android Development Toolkit 17
Android Development Toolkit 17 now includes hardware accelerated emulation and over 40 new Lint rules.
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Rich page layout with HTML and CSS3
Adobe is applying is experience in print media to CSS with the introduction of CSS3 Regions and Exclusions. These features will allow a single block of content to span multiple columns and weave its way around pictures and charts much like you would see in a magazine or newspaper.
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Thoughtworks Technology Radar March 2012
ThoughtWorks recently published the latest update to its Technology Radar; a report produced to help technology decision makers understand emerging trends in software development techniques, tools, languages and platforms. There are some interesting observations of interest to Agile software development teams.
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A New Survey Outlines the Trends in Mobile Development for 2012
A new Appcelerator/IDC report concludes: HTML5 becomes quite important for mobile developers, Google is catching up with Facebook, iOS is doing well, Android slips, WP7 still interesting, BlackBerry is down, and when it comes to cloud services developers are interested in location and notifications.
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Adobe Is Distributing Cordova under the PhoneGap Brand
Adobe will continue offering PhoneGap as a Cordova distribution along with PhoneGap Build and Adobe Shadow.
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ASP.NET MVC Testing Tips and Tricks
There are several components in an ASP.NET MVC 3 web app – models, controllers, route-handlers, views, html-helpers, client-side code etc. Most of these can be unit-tested, others need integration tests, and several good practices can help you keep your tests more maintainable and avoid making them brittle.
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Jetty gets Speedy
The Jetty project recently announced that Jetty now has SPDY support. InfoQ caught up with Greg Wilkins and Simone Bordet to find out more about the protocol, and what advantages it may bring.
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LinkedIn Engineering Releases SenseiDB 1.0.0
LinkedIn engineering releases SenseiDB 1.0.0, a NoSQL database focused on high update rates and complex semi-structured search queries, already used in production by LinkedIn in its search related pages (e.g. People/Company search)
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Rich Hickey Speaks on Datomic at Clojure/West
Rich Hickey spoke at the Clojure/West conference last weekend about his newest venture, Datomic, which he describes as “a distributed database designed to enable scalable, flexible and intelligent applications, running on cloud architectures.” Datomic sits on Amazon’s DynamoDB, and embeds Datalog, a subset of Prolog, to move queries into the application.
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T-SQL Improvements in SQL Server 2012
T-SQL received a lot of improvements in SQL Server 2012 including support for the ANSI FIRST_VALUE and LAST_VALUE functions, declarative data paging using FETCH and OFFSET, and .NET’s parsing and formatting functions.