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The Agile Community Needs to Embrace... Agile Thought Leaders at YOW! Australia 2011
What is the most important thing that the Agile community needs to embrace in 2012 and beyond? InfoQ had the opportunity to attend the recent YOW! Australia Software Developer Conference and took the opportunity of having such a large number of Agile speakers in one place to sit in on the sessions and ask them their thoughts on this question.
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WebStorm 3.0: JetBrains Provides a More Complete JavaScript IDE
WebStorm 3.0 adds support for Node.js, CoffeeScript, JSLint, JavaScript Unit Testing and includes enhancements of the JavaScript and XSLT debuggers.
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Architecting Service-oriented Technologies
In his new article “Architecting service-oriented technologies”, Philip Wik describes how frameworks, principles and patterns can be leveraged for system design and Agile, XP and principles of Social Engineering can help improve implementations.
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CXXI Brings Advanced C++ Interop To Mono
CXXI, a new C++ Interop framework, allows easy interoperability between C# and C++ in Mono. Developers can, from C#, easily instantiate C++ objects, invoke C++ methods, subclass C++ classes, and more.
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CloudBees Releases Jenkins Enterprise
CloudBees releases Jenkins Enterprise which offers commercial support, extended long time releases up to a year and extra proprietary plugins useful to companies with large scale Jenkins installations.
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PhoneGap Now Fully Supports WP7
PhoneGap now supports all native functionality on Windows Phone 7 being on par with iOS and Android.
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Code Signing For Individual Developers
Code Signing is a mechanism for software users to trust executable code that is published on the internet before downloading and running it. Until now, this was practically beyond the reach of the individual developer, due to costs and processes involved. However, some stores are now offering Thawte code-signing certificates for individual developers for $99 per year.
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Scrum Alliance to Strengthen ScrumMaster (CSM) Certification
The CSM Certification from the Scrum Alliance is granted to individuals that participate in a two day certification course and complete a pass/pass (e.g. can’t be failed) test. The testing process will be changed in 2012 to include a pass/fail test, and a new Professional Development Unit (PDUs) program will be rolled out no later than January 2013 for CSM’s to maintain their certification.
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Sensor Networks - GEOCens finished its Pilot Phase
In December the GEOCens (Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Sensing) is finishing its pilot phase, as the not-for-profit organization Cybera has recently published at GISUser.com. The software architecture is supposed to improve researcher access to international environmental data drawn from more than 60,000 sensors and 2,800 web map servers.
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Grails 2.0 Released with Improved Usability, Class Reloading, and Query DSL
The Grails development team at SpringSource, a division of VMWare, recently announced the release of Grails 2.0. This release improves Grails usability akin to Roo console support. GORM, the persistence layers in Grails, maximises the DSL support from the Groovy 1.8 via AST transformations.
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Have the Pragmatists Won? Water-Scrum-Fall Is the Norm
Dave West, Director of Research and Vice President at Forrester, asserts that Water-Scrum-Fall is the norm in IT today. Forrester's research raises the question: is anyone really doing pure scrum?
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Can SAP HANA boost Real-time Data Analytics?
In a recent press news from 13th December, SAP announced at the SAP Influencer Summit in Boston that “leading software vendors are adopting the open SAP HANA platform for their existing products and building completely new applications.” Among them are companies such as T-Mobile and TIBCO.
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ReSharper 6.1 Improves Performance, Adds Async Support
ReSharper 6.1 promises to alleviate many performance problems with ReSharper 6 in Visual Studio 2010. In addition to bugfixes, the pre-release includes new features such as the async/await keywords, an updated settings engine, and experimental support for Visual Studio 11.
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State of the Lambda
Brian Goetz has published an updated state of the lambda, giving a status report on the plan for adding lambdas to the Java language (also being tracked as JSR 335 and Java Enhancement Proposal number 126. Read on to find out what's new.
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Universal Password Storage in Windows 8
Furthering their commitment to ubiquitous access, Windows 8 plans on offering universal password management. Windows 8 credential storage is intended to tie all other usernames names and password into a single account that will travel with the user. And this feature will be usable from all applications.