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"Sprint": a Misnomer?
One of agile development's most fundamental concepts is working "iteratively" - running a project by delivering progressively better versions of the product at recurring interim milestones. Each methodology has its metaphoric label for this; the two most prevalent are XP's "iteration" and Scrum's "sprint". Kevin Schlabach talks about how the word "sprint" may be a bad metaphor.
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InfoQ Brazil Launches
InfoQ Brazil (http://www.infoq.com/br) is now officially launched! All InfoQ daily news & articles will be translated henceforth, with additional local news, articles, and videos produced by the Brazilian community on an ongoing basis. InfoQ Brazil launched officially this weekend, and has already gotten over 6700 pageviews in the last couple of days.
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Reporter's Notebook: What I learned from PDC
The watch-word isn't "cloud computing" or "scalability", it's trust. For all the cool stuff surrounding Windows Azure, literally no one on the floor was talking about actually using it. Even for products that can be partially hosted in-house like Mesh people are saying "Cool, but I can never use it".
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Spring Integration RC1 hatched: Q&A with Iwein Fuld on key benefits, deployment & future directions
Spring Integration provides an extension of the Spring programming model to support the well-known Enterprise Integration Patterns. Following the announcement of RC 1 that became available this week InfoQ has a Q&A with SpringSource’s Iwein Fuld on key benefits, deployment scenarios and future directions of Spring Integration.
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Is WOA Phony?
The WOA debate continues with analysts and consultants joining the fray with twi online polls that try to evaluate how much the term means to the community. Is it the future or is it just another flash-in-the-pan?
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Typemock Announces Isolator 5.1.1 and Racer
Typemock releases its latest version of Isolator and looks ahead with a simpler concept. Typemock also introduces Racer, Typemock’s parallel code solution for unit testing.
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Restlet 1.1.0: Improved Flexibility and Specification Support
Restlet 1.1.0 has been released with a number of improvements, including support for the JAX-RS RESTful web-services specification, the WADL specification, Grizzly NIO connectors, as well as several other new features. InfoQ spoke to the project lead.
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JavaServer Faces 2.0 Composite Components
The JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.0 expert group have released Draft 2 for JSF 2.0. This introduces a composite component model based on the Facelets approach which greatly simplifies the building of custom components with the standard Java EE web framework.
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Visual Basic 10: Rounding the Edges
Like C# 4, VB 10 isn't going to see a lot of ground breaking features. Everything so far was already available, just not in a convenient form. So this release is very much just rounding off the rough edges.
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ADO.NET Data Services Is About to Go Offline
ADO.NET Data Services, previously known as Project Astoria, will receive offline capabilities in the near future. That means applications could be developed to synchronize their data, then use it in an offline fashion.
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WebSphere 7.0 Supports Java EE 5, Web Services Enhancements and Web 2.0 Feature Pack
The latest version of WebSphere Application Server supports JDK 6.0, EJB 3.0, web services enhancements and Web 2.0 Feature Pack. IBM announced last week the release of WebSphere Server 7.0 version. The new version also includes enhancements in Web services including support for JAX-WS, SOAP 1.2, MTOM, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Policy, and Kerberos Token Profile.
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JRuby 1.1.5 Released
JRuby 1.1.5 was released with many bug fixes and performance improvements, callback support in ruby-ffi, and Ruby Gems 1.3.1.
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The Architecture of Multi-Enterprise Business Applications
Jack Greenfield gave a presentation at the last PDC on the architecture of Multi-Enterprise Business Applications. He sees MEBAs as being applicable to a large number of industries and processes. In the presentation he introduced a MEBA model-driven framework that his team has set out to build.
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QCon San Francisco a Few Weeks Way: 100 Speakers in 17 Tracks!
The second annual QCon San Francisco conference is coming up in just a few weeks; this year we've got over 100 speakers in 17 tracks covering the key topics of importance in enterprise software development. With speakers such as Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, Rod Johnson, Bob Martin, this is the biggest QCon yet.
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New Directions in Framework Design Guidelines
Microsoft's Framework Design Guidelines are the rules by which it expects both Microsoft libraries and those of individual developers to follow. As each version of .NET framework is released and tested in the field, their vision is refined. With the release of Cwalina and Abrams' second annotated book by the same name, we see the direction Microsoft is heading for the next couple of years.