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Proposal for Eclipse-based Requirement Modeling Framework Released
Recently, a proposal for the Requirements Modeling Framework (RMF) has been officially released by eclipse.org. Vision is to have at least one clean-room implementation of the OMG ReqIF standard in form of an EMF model and some rudimentary tooling to edit these models.
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SQL Server ‘Denali’ CTP Gets Self Service BI Capabilities
Microsoft recently announced CTP 3 for SQL Server ‘Denali’, which boasts of improved BI capabilities like Self Service Alerting, Self Service Reporting, improved Office integration, SharePoint Shared Service, better VS Tooling for developers and more.
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Systemic Constellations at Agile Coach Camp Montreal
Todd Charron is reporting about the Agile Coach Camp Canada 2011, in Montreal, Quebec where Michael Spayd demonstrated a powerful coaching technique called Systemic Constellations. Systemic Constellations comes from family systems therapy and was developed by Bert Hellinger.
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Mozilla Proposes to Sign-in Only with the Email Address, No User ID or Password Required
A new authentication system, dubbed BrowserID, from Mozilla promises to solve the basic authentication needs, but its success highly depends on its adoption.
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Sales and Agile, Oil and Water?
Sales, by its very nature is supposed to be Agile. A good sales person would inspect the situation, adapt to make the stakeholders comfortable and inspect by asking relevant questions to finally present a valid solution. However, it becomes a problem when the sales person tries to become too agile by offering silver bullets. Is this a regular phenomenon? Can it be solved?
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LocalDB: A Lightweight SQL Express for Developers
LocalDB is a new version of SQL Express that offers many of the same features, but installs faster, has fewer prerequisites, and doesn’t require management of a database instance. It supports T-SQL, and uses the same client-side providers as other versions of SQL Server, but runs in-process, rather than as a service.
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Private Cloud Roundup
Private clouds continue to grow in popularity and offer a number of appealing benefits to an organization including higher utilization of existing server resources, improved manageability, pay as you go, and self-service. This roundup provides a high-level view of some of the key ingredients for creating a private cloud solution.
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The Legacy of Eli Goldratt
On June 11th 2011, Dr. Eli Goldratt, inventor of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), passed away. Eli’s first, and most famous book was the "The Goal", it defined the TOC. His legacy will continue to indirectly influence the agile by the embodiment of his ideas in techniques we apply every day.
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MVP Erland Explores SQL Server Performance Concepts
In "Slow in the Application, Fast in SSMS?", SQL Server MVP, Erland Sommarskog, explores the various things that affect Query Plan, compilation of Dynamic SQL and other things that ultimately affect your SQL Server Database Performance. He covers various concepts and scenarios like parameter sniffing, query plan caching, Blocking, saved settings, issues with linked servers and more.
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Google+ Technological Details
Google Plus, the social network from Google, is built mostly on Java and JavaScript while Hangouts, its video conferencing framework, uses a client-server approach.
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JBoss AS7 Released
Red Hat announced the availability of JBoss AS 7, the first JBoss platform to be EE6 Web Profile certified and with an OSGi 4.2 compliant engine. A 7.1 release, planned later this year, will add full EE6 certification.
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Thinking of Enterprise Architecture as Vectors
Enterprise architects Robert Phipps and Tom Graves find great benefit in viewing the enterprise as a composition of vectors to determine the direction of change rather than the current static approach of frozen "as-is" and "to-be" states. This has created a buzz in the EA community and while a majority support the idea of representing dynamism there are critics of the abstract analogy.
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F#, MongoDB, ReactiveUI, Coroutines: Just Some of the Topics at Monospace 2011
While primarily focused on cross-platform development, Monospace 2011 will be covering a wide variety of topics this year including the F# compiler, programming with asynchronous methods and coroutines, MongoDB, and ReactiveUI. The conference will be held on the weekend of the 23rd at the Microsoft NERD Center located in Boston.
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Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java, June 2011 Community Technology Preview
Microsoft has recently released a new version of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java. The Eclipse plugin is an open source project, released under the Apache 2.0 license, which provides Java developers with an easy way to build and deploy web applications to Windows
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Surface SDK 2.0 Targets Windows Touch Devices
With Microsoft Surface SDK 2.0 one can write applications for both Surface and Windows Touch devices.