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Microsoft Drops Quadrant
Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft is dropping Quadrant and is revising its plans for its M data-modeling language.
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A Crash Course in Project Management
Ivo Manolov, a Principal Software Manager and former WPF SDET Manager at Microsoft, has written a short post on project management principles and techniques useful for those who want to be a project manager in their organization or want to improve their management skills.
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Last IE9 Platform Preview Available with Improved Performance and Standards Compliance
Microsoft has released the fourth and last preview version of Internet Explorer 9, which features hardware acceleration, deep integration with the JS engine and has improvements in performance and adoption of standards like SVG, CSS, HTML5, etc.
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Software Craftsmanship Conference 2010 - Just Code
The European Software Craftsmanship Conference 2010 will be held on Oct 7th 2010 at Bletchley Park, UK. The theme of the hands-on, community-led conference is: "No talks. No keynotes. Just code."
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Oracle Enterprise Pack Supports Eclipse 3.6, GlassFish and Coherence
Oracle Releases Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse. The new release aligns with Eclipse 3.6, or "Helios." The bundle includes support for GlassFish, Java EE6, WebLogic administration and management, enhanced support for the WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST), and Oracle's data-grid entry, Oracle Coherence.
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Designing Agile Spaces
Agile has always stressed the need for an appropriate physical space to support the team and team practices. Ryan Martens recently wrote about the intersection of design, design thinking, and the agile environment - suggesting that open space and wall-to-wall whiteboards are just the beginning of what is needed to create an ideal agile team-space.
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Eclipse 4.0 Early Adopters SDK Released
ast week, the Eclipse Foundation released Eclipse 4.0 Early Adopter SDK. This shouldn't be confused with the production-ready Eclipse Helios release (aka Eclipse 3.6). Rather, Eclipse 4.0 is a sneak preview of what Eclipse will look like in the future.
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Agile Certification Arrives
The Agile community has an all-new set of certification credentials, made credible by the involvement of Alistair Cockburn, a signatory of the Agile Manifesto
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CoffeeScript - JavaScript the Good Parts
As CoffeeScript 0.9.0 was just released, we asked Jeremy Ashkenas to give us some insights into the language. He intends it to be known as "Javascript as you would have liked it to be." CoffeeScript is source to source cross compiled to JavaScript and provides many interesting language cleanups and enhancements and some additional features.
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Ehcache 2.2 Supports Terabyte Cache and LDAP Authentication
The latest version of open source caching framework Ehcache supports terabyte cache and JAAS authentication with LDAP integration. Terracotta announced last week the general availability of Ehcache 2.2 version as part of Terracotta 3.3 release. The new version also includes a management console that provides visibility and control of run-time caching environment, for developers and operators.
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Studies that Validate Agile and Lean Methodologies
Ralph Jocham asked: "I am searching for some references that show that Agile projects have a higher chance of success than other approaches, the references should be quotable in a government document ie. come from a trustworthy source." Luckily, there are some studies out there, summarized in this article.
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LinkedIn's Data Infrastructure
Jay Kreps of LinkedIn presented some informative details of how they process data at the recent Hadoop Summit. Kreps described how LinkedIn crunches 120 billion relationships per day and blends large scale data computation with high volume, low latency site serving.
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Microsoft Aims Its Latest Tool, LightSwitch, at Professionals. Is it a Tool for Pros?
Microsoft has announced a new product, Visual Studio LightSwitch, during VSLive! keynote in Redmond. LightSwitch is a VS product tailored for easy creation of Line of Business (LoB) applications. Some developers wonder if LightSwitch is truly for professionals, comparing it with Access.
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Microsoft Ribbon for WPF
Microsoft has released a new preview of their WPF-based Ribbon control. Though not the final version, it includes a go live license and a copy of the source code. The quality is quite high and it appears that all of the bugs and API design flaws from last year’s preview have been corrected. While the source code is available, the license only permits read-only access for debugging purposes.
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Crowdsourced Testing, Changing the Game
Crowdsourcing is the process of requesting a large group of community, a crowd, to perform a task which is traditionally done by a select set of people in an organization, most likely employees or contractors. Crowdsourced testing is the powerful combination of combining web and cloud economics with the effectiveness and efficiency of crowdsourcing. Could this be a game changer?