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ThoughtWorks Responds to $43M Lawsuit Rumours
"We are not for sale; we are not closing our doors," ThoughtWorks told InfoQ. For the last 3 years TW has been in negotiations in and out of court over $43M owed to Schroder Venture Partners. Rumours circulated over the weekend that TW would have to sell itself after a Dow Jones article claimed that a recent court order 'forced' TW to repay Schroder.
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ScrumWorks Release 1.7.0 adds Tagging
Danube Technologies' latest ScrumWorks release 1.7.0 includes an important feature for enterprise users who need to trace back to multiple backlogs or integrate with other project tools - tagging and filtering with user-managed "themes".
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Buildix: Agile Java Toolset on a Disk
Buildix version 1.1, released today, provides teams with rapid and straightforward setup of a complete Agile Java development environment, including Continuous Integration, Source Control, a Wiki and a Bug-Tracker. The Thoughtworks developers who created it call it "an Agile development platform on a disk".
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One Week Left to Apply for Microsoft Certified Architect Program
The Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) program has proceeded past its initial beta and is accepting additional appolicants for its final pre-launch stage, but interested applicants must apply by July 14th to be considered for this round.
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Is Java EE 5 lightweight enough?
An article yesterday asked if Java's complexity is its worst enemy, quoting Richard Monson-Haefel saying "They should retire Java EE and work with the open source community to come up with a better solution. Steve Anglin distilled the the problem to a simpler question: "Is the new lightweight Java EE 5 light enough?
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TOC More Powerful than Six-Sigma, Lean
A manufacturing study has shown that TOC is twenty times as effective as Six Sigma, and nearly ten times more effective than lean at causing cost savings. This is the only scientific double-blind study of its kind performed "in the wild", i.e. in actual business plants. These ideas are frequently discussed in Agile circles and integrated into Agile methodologies.
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Contracts, Expectations, Agreements and Processes
Contract first development isn't a new idea, but has some followers in the SOA domain. Recently, the W3C has extended the WSDL to include semantic annotations, enriching the basic contract with more metadata. Contracts are also explored in more detail in the development of processes by Steve Jones using tools like Eclipse and NetBeans.
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IBM ObjectGrid Distributed Transactional Cache Available
IBM has been quietly working on ObjectGrid, a distributed cache product as part of their Websphere Extended Deployment platform which also runs standalone with any server. Some key differentiators include transactional access, authorized cache access via JAAS and scalability to 100's. An limited eval version of ObjectGrid is available.
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Summary of TSS Future of Enterprise Java Panel
Cameron Purdy, Rod Johnson, Bruce Snyder, Bruce Tate, Floyd Marinescu and Ari Zilka participated in an annual 'what is the future of enterprise java?' panel at the last TSS Symposium, which was just published in video by TSS. The panel covered hard issues such as 'will EJB 3 matter?', open source Java, web 2.0, scripting languages. Read InfoQ's summary.
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Atlas June CTP Released
Microsoft has released a new Community Tech Preview (CTP) of Atlas, Microsoft's AJAX framework for ASP.NET. Note that Atlas can also be used with other web technoloogies such as PHP or ColdFusion via the Atlas client-script libraries.
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ESB Roundup Part One: Defining the ESB
A healthy debate has arisen in the SOA community around the Enterprise Service Bus. Is an ESB needed? What is the best definition of an ESB? When should an ESB be deployed? What is its role in SOA? In the first part of a series, InfoQ explores this vital topic.
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InfoQ Newsletter is now being sent out
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Outsourcing Gone Bad - Another Reason to Consider Agile
Proponents of Agile methods suggest they can spare organizations some outsourcing nightmares, by helping in-house teams produce ROI comparable to outsourced solutions. Stories from Sprint and Sears provide incentive to at least give them a hearing.
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WebLogic Server 9.2, Portal 9.2, Workshop on Eclipse Released
BEA last week released the WebLogic 9.2 platform family of products including WebLogic Server, WebLogic Portal (which now runs on WL 9.2), and Workshop for WebLogic (now built on Eclipse for the first time).
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JRuby 0.9 Released; Runs WEBrick, Rails, RubyGems, and Rake
Released today, the JRuby 0.9 interpreter for Java can now run RubyGems, the WEBrick Ruby HTTP server, and Ruby on Rails. JRuby co-lead Thomas Enebo told InfoQ that Rake also recently started to work. JRuby 0.9 also includes a number of bug fixes, an improved YAML parser thanks to JvYAML and RbYAML projects, and all non-native standard libraries are bundled in the JRuby distribution.