InfoQ Homepage News
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New Agile Community Site Launch
A new site Agile Commons has recently been born, as a result of collaborative work between Rally employees and their customers. It has been launched as an ideas exchange platform funded by Rally & Hivemind, with the aim of becoming the leading resource for Agile minded people, by inviting different types of organisations, Linked In groups to discuss and exchange agile ideas in a single place.
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Download Links for Mix08 Technologies
As Mix08 wound down Tim Sneath published a consolidated list of download links for bits released during the conference.
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Performance Fix Available for VS 2008 and a Surprise Note about VBScript
In an attempt to be more responsive, Microsoft is trying to publicly release hot-fixes more frequently. This hot fix affects the performance of VS 2008 when editing web pages.
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RIATest for Flex Released Beta Product
RIATest, a Flex GUI test automation tool released the beta product to public. InfoQ spoke to Tigran Najaryan, the founder and creator of RIATest, about this release.
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David Pollak on lift and Scala
With the release of lift 0.6, the web application framework for Scala, InfoQ took the opportunity to ask David Pollak some questions around lift and developing in Scala.
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Common Questions when Adopting TDD
If you are new to TDD you may be struggling with some common questions such as: How much upfront design should I tolerate? Or, when writing a test you have to build interfaces and some classes to get it to even compile - how far do you let that go?
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Decompiling Silverlight 2 Applications
From time to time, developers may need to decompile a Silverlight 2 application. Fortunately it turns out Silverlight applications are conveniently bundled into zip files.
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JVM Dynamic Language Shootout
Travis Jensen compares Groovy, Jython and JRuby for developing web based user interfaces.
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Learning BPMN: a 6 part eLearning Series and an Eclipse STP Tutorial
BPMN's adoption is increasing rapidly. In this post, we review some recent activity such as the publication of BPMN 1.1 by the OMG, a tutorial on how to use the Eclipse SOA Tools Platform to "Execute Business Processes" and a comprehensive 120 minute tutorial on BPMN by Bruce Silver.
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Released to Developers
Last week Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 with most feature updates targetted squarely at developers.
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GridGain 2.0 Supports Load Balancing, Work Stealing and Data Partitioning
The latest version of GridGain, a java based open source grid computing framework, supports load balancing and data partitioning features. GridGain Systems recently released version 2.0 of the framework which also includes a "work stealing" feature where the scheduled jobs running on overloaded nodes in the grid are "stolen" to run on underloaded nodes.
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Article: SOA in Healthcare
In a new article, based on a chapter from the book "Service Oriented Architecture Demystified", Girish Juneja, Blake Dournaee, Joe Natoli & Steve Birkel discussthe benefits of applying SOA to heterogenous environments in the healthcare domain. Focusing on a domain instead of technology perspective first provides an interesting view on the business motivation for SOA.
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Understanding Business Value
Aside from "Agile" itself, "Business Value" may be one of the most widely used buzzwords around the floors of any fresh agile project. But, how many of these projects actually have a good understanding of what they really mean when they're saying it? Joe Little presents his thoughts on this very question.
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ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Brings Out Many Value Additions
The ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2 has been released last week and offers a lot of new features and many refactorings.
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Apple Manager Writes "Managing Humans" to Help Techies
It’s Michael Lopp’s belief that developers are trained to manage bits well, but not humans. When developers are promoted to managers much harm can be inflicted. Michael uses stories and humour to warn us of the many perils of management and how to navigate around them.