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Presentation: Agile in the Waterfall Enterprise by Michele Sliger
In this presentation, Michele Sliger, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), talks about introducing Agile to a waterfall type of organization and the hurdles to be cleared.
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Merge, Replace, or Patch: How Astoria Handles Changing Data
Using REST, what should happen when you perform a PUT operation to update existing data? The Astoria Team asks that question and explains their answer.
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Eclipse Ganymede: An in-depth look at Mylyn
As part of the upcoming Eclipse Ganymede release, scheduled for June 25th, InfoQ is covering a series of Eclipse subprojects. Today, the topic is Mylyn. InfoQ spoke with Mik Kersten, lead of the Mylyn project and President of Tasktop Technologies, to learn more about what to expect in Ganymede.
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OpenFlux Component Framework for Flex
OpenFlux offers Flex developers an open source component framework based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) Architecture. The library has a set of components that currently includes Buttons, Lists, and ScrollBars. The goal of OpenFlux is to make it easy to “dramatically” customize components within a Flex application, without fear of breaking other parts of the component
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Git/Github Roundup: Ruby Books, Gems, Gitjour
Git and Github's popularity increase steadily in the Ruby space. A few Ruby related book projects are now hosted on Github. Gitjour is a new tool using the Bonjour protocol to distribute git repositories. Finally: Github makes it easy to provide gems of projects.
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New User Story Format Emphasizes Business Value
User stories, a common format for capturing agile requirements, could be more focused on business value. A traditional format for stating a user story is: "As a <type of user> I want <some functionality> so that <some benefit>." A value-centric replacement would be: "In order to <achieve some value>, as a <type of user>, I want <some functionality>."
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Article: Do Java 6 threading optimizations actually work?
Features like biased locking, lock coarsening, lock elision by escape analysis and adaptive spin locking are all designed to increase concurrency by allowing more effective sharing amongst application threads. But do they actually work? In this two part article, Jeroen Borgers explores these features and attempt to answer the performance question with the aid of a single threaded benchmark.
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Presentation: Mark Smith on Exploring Silverlight
Mark Smith of DevelopMentor explores Silverlight 2.0 in this presentation from QCon San Francisco.
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Agile Practices with the Highest Return on Investment
Return on Investment is a critical factor for decision making pertaining to following a particular software development practice. The post summarizes the ROI benefits of Agile and the inexpensive practices which lead to highest return on investment.
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SQL Server PowerShell Extensions
PowerShell is quite possibly going to be the most important language for Windows administrators over the next few years. This is all the more evident when you look at the extensive PowerShell support being added to Microsoft server products such as SQL Server.
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RAM is the new disk...
Jim Gray, a man who has contributed greatly to technology over the past 40 years, is credited with saying that memory is the new disk and disk is the new tape. With the proliferation of "real-time" web applications and systems that require massive scalability, how are hardware and software relating to this meme?
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Eclipse Ganymede: An in-depth look at RAP (Rich Ajax Platform)
As part of the upcoming Eclipse Ganymede release which is scheduled for June 25th, InfoQ will cover a series of Eclipse subprojects. Today, the subproject is RAP (Rich Ajax Platform), which is releasing version 1.1. InfoQ spoke with Jochen Krause to learn more about RAP and what it provides.
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The EQATEC Code Profiler v. 1.2 for the .NET Compact Framework Has New Features
InfoQ informed the community about the free EQATEC code profiler for the .NET Compact Framework a month ago. In the meantime, the profiler has been well received by the community, and EQATEC released version 1.2 with new features and bug fixes.
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IronRuby and ASP.NET MVC
John Lam demonstrates two new products from Microsoft, IronRuby and ASP.NET MVC, working together. While it will probably never replace Ruby on Rails, it is an interesting look into the new technology.
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Royal Pingdom Conducts JavaScript Framework Usage Survey
Royal Pingdom recently released a survey of 200 popular websites detailing which sites use which Javascript frameworks.