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Google Has Open Sourced Android 4.0
Google has released the source code for Android Ice Cream Sandwich and a new Native Development Kit.
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Agile 2011 Videos Now Available On New Agile Alliance Learning Center
The Agile Alliance have recently launched a new Learning Center, with the highlight at launch being the availability of keynotes and selected presentations from the Agile 2011 conference.
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Analysis Of Web API Versioning Options
Refering to a questions over versioning conventions used OpenStack Api, Mark Nottingham provides an analysis of the various strategies for versioning Web API in the cloud.
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WSO2 Releases New Versions of WSO2 Carbon and Stratos
WSO2 has added a new Ghost Deployer, a Cassandra-based Column Store Service, an Apache Subversion-based Deployment and an enhanced Load Balancer to both Carbon and Stratos. This functionality is also available on StratosLive.
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Should Agile Coaches Have a Code of Ethics?
Recently on the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/agile-leaders">Agile Leaders mailing list</a> Dan Mezick initiated a discussion on the need for <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/agile-leaders/browse_thread/thread/23d77a7fd3797ea8">Agile Coaching Ethics</a>.
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Updated:Adobe Donating Flex to Open Source Foundation; Continues Fire Sale on Formerly-Core Software
Hot on the heels of news that Adobe is abandoning developing Flash for mobile devices, Adobe has also now announced its intention to donate the Flex SDK to "an established open source foundation".
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JQuery 1.7 Brings HTML5 To IE6-8, Gets Deprecation Policy
JQuery 1.7 has recently been released, with improvements such as new Event APIs, Better performance of Delegated Events, HTML5 support for IE6-8, support for AMD spec and more. The team has also started deprecating certain features in an effort to keep JQuery slim.
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eBay readies next generation search built with Hadoop and HBase
eBay presented a keynote at Hadoop World, describing the architecture of its completely rebuilt search engine, Cassini, slated to go live in 2012. It indexes all the content and user metadata to produce better rankings and refreshes indexes hourly. It is built using Hadoop for hourly index updates and HBase to provide random access to item information.
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Integration of SABSA Security Architecture Approaches with TOGAF ADM
Security architecture has always been considered a separate discipline from enterprise architecture which has led to piecemeal strategies and consequently increased exposure to security vulnerabilities. By integrating SABSA concepts into the TOGAF framework, architects can leverage a risk driven enterprise architecture approach that addresses security concerns driven by business requirements.
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Big Data: Evolution or Revolution?
Recently Steve Jones, from Cap Gemini, questioned whether NoSQL/Big Data is the panacea that some vendors would have us believe. He suggests that in some cases in-memory RDBMS may well be the optimal solution and that approaches such as Map Reduce could be too difficult to understand for typical IT departments. He concludes with a suggestion some sometimes Big Data may be a Big Con.
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Pair Programming: Side-by-Side or Face-to-Face
Pair programming is an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together at one workstation. The benefits of pair programming are well known and the technique is widely practiced. However, what is the best way to sit while pairing?
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WebGL, WebCL, MultiCores: The State and Future of Parallel Javascript in the Browser with RiverTrail
JavaScript has remained sequential although parallel processing capabilities are currently available even on mobile devices. Intel Labs has been working on an extension of JavaScript that takes advantage of multi-core systems and has released a Firefox plugin. InfoQ had an exclusive interview with Stephan Herhut from Intel Labs about this work.
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A Conversation from the Trenches of Agility with David J Bland, Brad Murphy and Peter Saddington
A Friday afternoon conversation with some noted agile practitioners covering the current state and future trends of the methodological universe and how these are playing out in the real world. Sit back, pop open a beer and enjoy the banter between some of the sharpest agile coaches on the market.
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Google Closure Stylesheets Makes It Easier to Work with CSS
Google has open source under Apache License 2.0 Closure Stylesheets, a utility belonging to the Closure Tools package and useful when dealing with CSS. Closure Stylesheets is a Java program adding variables, functions, conditionals and mixins to CSS, making it simpler to work with large CSS files.
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Is The Patent System Broken?
In a recent interview with The San Francisco Chronicle the patent counsel of Google, Tim Porter, claims the patent system itself is broken. Patent offices worldwide have been increasingly granting protection to “innovations” that are not innovative. The IT Industry is currently facing a series of patent trials which some large corporates seem to leverage as weapons for attacking competitors.