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Conflict is Human: Let's Use It Well
Lyssa Adkins, author of Coaching Agile Teams maintains that not only does "resolving" conflict not work - it can even be counter-productive. Can conflict actually catapult teams to higher performance? In her ADP2009 keynote, she presented a model for helping teams learn to de-escalate from destructive into constructive forms of conflict.
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InfoQ User Survey Results
Back in January, InfoQ published a User Survey and asked for people to take a few minutes and fill it out. Our reasoning for doing so was pretty straightforward - we wanted to know how we could improve the InfoQ experience for you, the user. We were pleasantly surprised that within a few days of posting the survey we had received several thousand replies - these are the results of that survey.
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ASP.NET MVC 2 Brings Breaking Changes
A few days ago Scott Guthrie announced the production release of ASP.NET MVC 2. With it comes with many new features, but also some breaking changes. Compared to the rather strict rules around changing .NET’s base class library, the changes in ASP.NET MVC are almost caviler.
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Dealing with REST Services Security
With REST gaining popularity for SOA implementations, the issue of REST services security becomes more and more important each day. In their article, Why REST security doesn't exist, Chris Comerford and Pete Soderling discuss approaches to securing REST services.
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Harmonizing Agile With "User-Centered Design"
UX specialist Anthony Colfelt presents a case for how agile, alone, might not be sufficient and a thorough and engaging look into how User-Centered Design can, and should, be merged with it.
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ASP.NET MVC 2 Feature Rundown
ASP.NET MVC 2 is now ready for production use. Microsoft’s open source MVC framework is compatible with both .NET 3.5 and the soon to be released .NET 4. It provides many new features including Templated Helpers, Areas, Asynchronous Controllers, and a new validation framework.
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JSR 310 Date and Time API for Java
Stephen Colebourne, lead of the JSR 310 Date and Time API, has recently published an Early Draft Review of the proposed additions and changes to the Java language. InfoQ caught up with Stephen at QCon London to find out more about the project.
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Ruby 1.9.2 Release Schedule Aims at August for Final Release
Now that Ruby 1.9.2 passes all RubySpec tests, a revised release schedule for Ruby 1.9.2 has been announced. It aims at mid-August for the final release.
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MuleSoft's CloudCat Supports Web Application Deployment on Amazon EC2 and GoGrid Clouds
MuleSoft's cloud service offering of Apache Tomcat container, called CloudCat, provides a virtual image that allows developers and QA teams to build and test web applications in the cloud environment. MuleSoft recently announced CloudCat product availability and a partnership with cloud infrastructure hosting provider GoGrid.
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Most Effective Team Structure
Agile talks about small team sizes with the magic numbers of 7 plus minus 2. Agile also recommends whole teams. Whole team is a concept that advises for having sufficient skills within the team itself to get the job done. Thus the development team has the testing skills, database skills, user interface skills, apart from the core development skills. Is defining the team structure this easy?
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Windows Phone 7 Will Not Support Native Code
The development story for Windows Phone 7 has been revealed. As suspected, it is heavily based on Silverlight, XNA, and Flash. So much in fact that only managed code is allowed on the platform.
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Is the Agile Community Being Unreasonable?
A recent thread on the pmi-agile Yahoo! group discusses some frustrations of the Agile recommendations that seem on the verge of naivete.
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US Scrum Gathering, An All-Open Space Final Day
The 2010 US Scrum Gathering in Orlando wraps up after an all-Open Space Day 3, exemplifying the collaborative and empirical essence of Scrum as its originally intended.
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Revisiting Biases Against Open Source SOA Solutions
Ronald Schmelzer, a senior analyst at ZapThink revisits the common misconception/biases on the suitability of open source SOA solutions for the enterprise and asks “why is it then that so many IT organizations prematurely discard Open Source Software (OSS) from their SOA implementations?”
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Terracotta and Eucalyptus Integration Provides Data Management and Elastic Provisioning in the Cloud
Terracotta recently announced a partnership with open source private cloud platform vendor Eucalyptus that allows the companies to provision private clouds on Amazon AWS-compatible Eucalyptus cloud platform and take advantage of the elasticity and flexibility of the cloud.