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Relational Cloud On the Horizon
Microsoft has announced that SDS will deliver full relational database capabilities as a service. The core foundational components of SDS have not changed and it is still the same proven architecture of the current CTP. However, the ACE (Authority, Container, Entity) data model is being retired.
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Interview with Pollyanna Pixton at Agile 2008
Pollyanna Pixton tells us that within a culture of trust leaders must stand back and if they don't then they are hampering and restricting the productivity and the creativity and the innovation of teams. She discusses how leaders can foster a culture of trust and what they must do to get the most out of Agile teams.
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Workspaces for Effective Agility
Author and Agile consultant, Mike Cohn recently wrote a blog entry summarizing a chapter in his new book Succeeding With Agile talking about the ideal Agile workspace. He points to things that need to be visible in the space an Agile team works in to help them be more effective.
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MacRuby 0.4 Released with HotCocoa::Graphics, Threaded GC, DTrace
The MacOS X based Ruby implementation MacRuby is now available in the 0.4 release, which adds an embedding API for using Ruby to script Objective-C apps, a new threaded GC, 64 bit support, and a graphics library along the lines of Processing called HotCocoa::Graphics built on Core Graphics and Core Image.
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Red Hat and Microsoft Get Together in the Virtualization Arena
Red Hat has announced an agreement with Microsoft to support each other’s guests on their virtualization servers including coordinated technical support.
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Presentation: Taming Effects with Functional Programming
In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2008, Simon Peyton-Jones advertises the need for programming purity achieved especially through use of functional languages and the increased attention given to functional programming.
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Software Craftsmanship Manifesto: A Call to Arms
A movement to promote Software Craftsmanship has been brewing for a few years. Since Agile 2008 last year they found a focal point with Uncle Bob Martin's claim that the Agile Manifesto needed amending with a new value: "Software Craftsmanship over Crap". Recently a group has created the Software Craftmanship Manifesto.
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A Study: Ways To Make Web 2.0 Work In The Enterprise
The McKinsey Quarterly Report published a study that spanned the last couple years and more than 50 early adopter enterprises. The purpose of the study was to gain insight into successful adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise.
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C# 4.0 "Fixes" Deadlock Issue
C# 4.0 implemented a change that assured optimized and non -optimized compiles yielded consistent results. This "Fix" emphasized some design problems with locking mechanisms.
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Avoiding Three Common Mistakes when Implementing XML and Web Services
In his new comment, IBM’s Kyle Brown examines three different common anti-patterns, or "worst practices," that can make adopting Web Services and SOA implementations more difficult than it needs to be.
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Make Way for Grails 1.1
Recently SpringSource released version 1.6 of the Groovy programming language and now they've followed up with a new version of Grails.
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Interview: Gregg Pollack and the How-To of Scaling Rails
In this interview with Gregg Pollack of Rails Envy Podcasts, Robert Bazinet talks with Gregg about the issues around scaling Rails, his involvement with New Relic and the creation of the Scaling Rails screencast series as well as other keys to scaling Rails.
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Presentation: Rich Internet Applications with Flex and AIR
In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2008, Christophe Coenraets presents Flex and AIR, two technologies from Adobe used to create, deploy and run Rich Internet Applications. After a brief introduction to each technology, Coenraets showed some applications built with them.
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3 Pillars Of Executive Support For Agile Adoption
An executives job is not over once they've justified agile to their teams and paid for training. To make a transition successful, its required this executive provide sustained support. Esther Derby takes a moment to describe what she believes to be the 3 most important aspects of this ongoing support.
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Drive Testing in the Cloud for One Hour
JumpBox, a vendor offering application’s images running on many virtualization platforms, offers free one hour trials for their images running on Amazon’s EC2 cloud. All the products offered are open source and cover several basic areas: Content Management, CRM, Project Management, Collaboration, Network Monitoring, and Development Tools.