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Visual Studio vNext Will Bring More Agility and DevOps Integration
Microsoft has unveiled at TechEd North America 2011 some of the new features coming in Visual Studio: more Agile tools for project planning and collecting stakeholder feedback, a connector for providing operations feedback to developers, plus architecture diagrams and unit testing for VC++.
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A Case Study for Continuous Delivery in the Cloud
Paul M. Duvall, author of the book "Continuous Integration", wrote about a case study for adopting continuous delivery in the cloud by a large organization in the public healthcare sector. The post discusses the problems, tools and solutions they found in the process.
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Oracle Proposes Improvements to JCP
Yesterday, Oracle announced the start of JSR.next, also known as JSR 348, to upgrade the current JCP to force more openness and transparency. Read on to find out more.
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Jeremy Keith on the Design Principles of HTML5
"Embrace HTML5" was held in Shanghai last week. Jeremy Keith, the author of "DOM Scripting" and “HTML5 for Web Designers”, presented a speech on the design principles of HTML5. He also introduced the history of HTML and answered some questions from the audience.
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Upcoming Agile Conferences
Many major agile conferences this time of the year give you an opportunity to find one that fits your needs.
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The Death and Rebirth of Mono
Novell Mono is officially dead. All of the developers have been let go and the new owner, Attachmate, has not expressed any interest in maintaining the project. But in true open source fashion, a new fork is rising up. Led by Mono’s founder Miguel de Icaza, a new company named Xamarin has been founded.
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An Interview With Ed Schmit, AT&T Developer Ecosystem
InfoQ spoke with Ed Schmidt at the Seattle Mobile Developer Hackathon last month. He shares his perspective on how developers should prepare to develop mobile apps and the trends he sees in the industry.
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Exceptional Ruby
Developers enjoy writing code but few developers enjoy writing exception handling code and even fewer do it right. A new book titled Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grimm attacks the subject and helps developers take the right approach to solid exception handling code.
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Spec Explorer 2010 Version 3.5 Adds Improved Change Detection, Batch Processing
Spec Explorer 2010 version 3.5 is an extension for Visual Studio 2010 that allows users to generate reusable test code and create, analyze and reproduce graphical models of software behavior. In addition to several bug fixes and improved documentation, this release of Spec Explorer includes enhancements to model change detection, multiple machine processing and the Cord editor.
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SAP announces StreamWork as Solution for Collaborative Decision-Making
SAP has recently introduced StreamWork as a cloud-based solution for collaborative decision-making. According to the German ERP company its product brings together the people, information, and proven business approaches to drive fast, meaningful results.
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How do you measure the RESTful-ness of an application?
With debates on comparing and contrasting REST with WS-* or SOA having died down, the debate moves on to have to measure how RESTful a system may be, or how "mature" it is. One approach that is referred to many times is the Richardson Maturity Model. However, there is disagreement within the community as to whether or not this model is the right approach to use.
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Twitter Experiences Site Instability Following Google, Microsoft Outages
Twitter is the latest to experience downtime when yesterday the company issued a status update indicating instability within the site. This was the second such report from Twitter this week and follows on the heels of outages experienced this week by Google’s Blogger service and Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS).
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Essential: a new Language Workbench
Pedro Molina has released the beta version of his new Language Workbench: Essential. Unlike other WLs, Essential is capable of interpreting the model definition, making it faster and easier to design and re-factor model driven solutions.
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MIX11 – jQuery Plugin Adds Client-side Data Model for RIA Services
Brad Olenick announced the new RIA/JS jQuery plugin at MIX11. This plugin wraps a RIA DomainService; adding events, change tracking, validation, and more. Brad’s presentation “Building Data-centric N-tier Applications with jQuery” demonstrates many of these features including shared validation, sorting, filtering, buffering, and change tracking.
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Agile 2011 Keynote Speakers Anounced
The Agile 2011 organizers have announced the keynote speakers for the conference being held in August at Salt Lake City. Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, Kevin Henney and Linda Rising will deliver keynote talks with three distinctly different focuses.