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Windows Azure Gets Node.js, SQL Azure Federation, Increased DB Limits
Windows Azure team announced major updates including support for Node.js, better scalability for SQL Azure through Federation and higher individual DB Size limits (upto 150 GB), a limited preview for Hadoop and more.
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D1 is Being Discontinued in 2012
Digital Mars, makers of the C++ alternative D, have decided to discontinue the original version of D. They had been maintaining D1 along with its successor D2 since 2007, but with the later now well established they feel it is no longer appropriate to dedicate resources to the older language past December 2012.
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Spring 3.1 is GA Today - Adds Java 7 Support, Environment Abstraction and Cache Abstraction
SpringSource have announced the general availability of Spring 3.1 today. InfoQ spoke to Chris Beams, a core committer on the Spring framework, to find out more about the release, and plans for Spring 3.2.
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Azul Releases Open Source jHiccup Tool to Provide Response Time Analysis of the Java Run
Azul Systems have today announced the release of jHiccup, an open source tool designed to measure the pauses and stalls (or "hiccups") associated with an application's underlying Java runtime platform.
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.NET Framework Support for Cloud Foundry Through Open Source Contribution From Tier 3
Cloud service provider Tier 3 has released Iron Foundry, a .NET-friendly fork of VMware’s Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service. Iron Foundry gives the sizeable number of .NET developers an open source alternative to Windows Azure and lets them participate in the increasingly popular Cloud Foundry ecosystem.
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One-Piece Continuous Flow - an alternative to Kanban?
Scrum community leader Jim Coplien proposes One Piece Continuous Flow as an alternative to Kanban. He believes that a cross functional team should work together as a single unit instead of sub teams waiting for work items to arrive from previous stages. Kanban practitioners find their framework to be more usable in an environment where cross-functional teams are not readily feasible.
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Resin Can Now Act As a Drop-in Replacement for Memcached Solution
With the release of version 4.0.24, the cache for Caucho's Resin Application Server now provides a memcached interface for both the client and the server. This means that Resin can function as a drop-in replacement for memcached solutions.
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Silverlight 5 – Full 3D Stack, Better Binding, Enhanced Trust Mode
Silverlight 5 has finally been released by Microsoft, with a lot of new features such as full 3d stack with XNA Libraries, several binding related enhancements, unrestricted File System access and more.
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Agile Contracts Primer Available for Download
Tom Arbogast, Bas Vodde and Craig Larman have released a sample chapter from their upcoming book on scaling Lean and Agile. The chapter deals with the difficult topic of writing contracts for agile development.
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Lucene 3.5 and Solr 3.5 - Substantial RAM Reduction, SearcherManager, Deep Paging Support
The Lucene PMC (Project Management Committee) has announced the availability of Apache Lucene 3.5.0 and Apache Solr 3.5.0. Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search library. Solr is a standalone search server that uses Lucene at its core for indexing and search.
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Announcing the 6th Annual QCon London: March 5-9, 2012
QCon London 2012, taking place March 5-9, 2012 is now open for registration (£ 295 savings until Dec 16th). There is no other event in the UK with similar opportunities for learning, networking, and tracking innovation occurring in the Java, .NET, Html5, Mobile , Agile, and Architecture communities.
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Agility@Scale: IBM’s Journey of Agile Transformation
This webcast discusses how IBM learned that a haphazard implementation of Agile may result in more frequent development “turns”, but can also fail to deliver true business benefits. In effect, the wrong Agile implementation may just mean that bad code is being released to market faster than before. Learn more!
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James Phillips on Moving from Relational to NoSQL Databases
James Phillips, co-founder of Couchbase, recently gave a presentation on the differences between a distributed document-oriented and relational data models and what the database developers need know to move from a relational to a NoSQL database. InfoQ caught up with James to talk about the advantages and limitations of document-oriented NoSQL databases.
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HP Has Decided to Open Source webOS
HP will open source webOS along with Enyo, and promises to remain active in its development.
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Software Craftsmanship Was Once Again the Main Topic at SCNA 2011
The Software Craftsmanship North America (SCNA) 2011 had a number of renown speakers including Corey Haines, Chad Fowlers, Uncle Bob, Michael Feathers, and others. We have created a digest of some of the ideas presented at the conference and shared by participants.