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Tasktop Agile Planner for Eclipse Released
Tasktop has released an Agile planning tool that leverages MyLyn connectors to provide planning support that spans across multiple project management integrations like Mingle, Team Concert, Rally, Scrumworks,JIRA and VersionOne. The Eclipse integration supports automatic linking between plan items and source code artifacts allowing developers to create and manage plans directly from Eclipse.
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Using Eclipse Xtext to Simplify Mobile Application Development
Daniel Schneller illustrates how his team used Xtext to create a textual-DSL that models the navigation paths of mobile applications and generate Java code from it. He provides a step by step tutorial and discusses the advantages of such an approach.
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Diversity in Agile – Women in Agile interviews available
The Agile Alliance sponsored Diversity in Agile program launched the first set of interviews from the Women In Agile series at Agile 2010 today. Shane Hastie spoke to Lisa Crispin about the work that has been done and the interviews that are available for viewing.
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How Should a Product Owner Participate in a Planning Poker Session?
During planning poker, a product owner should explain the user stories to the development team, but he or she should not try to unduly influence the development team's estimates.
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Adobe Acquires Java ECM Vendor Day Software
Last week Adobe Systems announced it was purchasing Day Software for $240 million. The deal combines Day’s JSR-170/238 based content management and digital asset management products with Adobe’s Flex, Flash and AIR in a move to corner the web content market. In addition to being a lead company for the JSR-170/238 specifications, Day also contributes to Apache Jackrabbit and Sling.
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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.