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Vacations: Creative Work Requires Rest
Summer has traditionally been a time for vacations and get-aways, a time to clear the mind and "recreate" oneself. Yet, according to a recent study, one third of people expect to take work with them on their holidays this year. Is this healthy? Can it be changed?
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Agile Project Management Just a Start
Alan Shalloway blogs about the need to look beyond agile project management: developers must also be competent at technical skills such as refactoring, agile modeling, and test driven development (TDD).
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Generalists, Brush Up Your Resumes
Good news: a) in many places, it's a job-hunter's market again; b) recruiters are looking for exceptional, well-rounded, super-smart generalists - multitalented, multifaceted, multitasking problem-solvers. Have you been updating your skillset? Work-force consulting firm Foote Partners tells us which skills are in demand.
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Security and Reliability Techniques Revealed for Agile Teams
Agile methods such as Extreme Programming (XP) and Agile Unified Process (AUP) do not explicitly address security and reliability, yet these are issues which are often critical to your success. It is possible to address these issues, and more, on software development teams while still remaining agile.
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Article: A Look at Common Performance Problems in Rails
Rails performance expert Dr. Stefan Kaes takes a look at the most common performance issues in your Rails applications and what to do about them. Advice is given regarding benchmarking, choosing a session container, caching results of expensive computations, optimizing database queries and working effectively with view helpers.
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Big Turnout for Ruby Meetup in San Francisco
Close to one hundred people attended last night's Ruby meetup at C|Net offices in San Francisco.
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WinFX renamed to .NET Framework 3.0
Microsoft Corporate Vice-President S.Somasegar announced last week that WinFX would be renamed to the .NET Framework 3.0. "The .NET Framework has always been at the core of WinFX, but the WinFX brand didn't convey this."
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JBoss SEAM 1.0: rethinking web application architecture
JBoss SEAM 1.0 was released today; SEAM extends the POJO + annotation-driven and configuration-by-exception programming model of EJB 3.0 into the entire web app stack, while unifying JSF, EJB, AJAX, and business process management (jBPM) into one tightly-integrated framework. InfoQ spoke to Gavin King and got some more background on SEAM and it's 1.0 release today.
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Rails Testing Strategies
Popular Rails community member Kevin Olbrich published a couple of interesting and useful articles on his blog about Rails testing strategies.
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Article: Reducing Legacy Code Woes
Incremental Test Driven Development is fine for new code... but few get to start from scratch. Jared Richardson, author of "Ship It!", shows how to handle the legacy code that everyone eventually inherits. Use his Build, Automate, Test approach to create a safety net that helps you identify and eliminate unintended side effects, to ensure your code continues to work the way you want it to.
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Resource Injection in the Java EE platform Overview
One of the simplification features of Java EE 5 is the implementation of basic dependency injection to simplify web and EJB components. Annotations are used for injecting resources, services, and life-cycle notifications. A new tutorial on java.sun.com shows how to use annotations to do resource injection and we've summarized what can be injected and where.
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Strategies for Remaining Focussed on Your Project's Goal
Catalysts' Christoph Steindl describes strategies for how you can stay focused on the true goal(s) which your project team is chartered to achieve via effective use of strategic objectives maps and related agile project management strategies.
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Apache Tuscany Releases First Milestone
Apache Tuscany released it's first milestone. Tuscany, an open source implementation of SCA and SDO. SCA, or Service Component Architecture and Service Data Objects.
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SOA Software and WSO2 Bring in VC Money
Draper Fisher leads an $11 Million investment round in SOA Software. Intel Capital, the Venture arm of the Santa Clara chipmaker has invested $4 Million dollars in WSO2, an open source software company.
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Strategies for Initiating an Agile Project
This article describes what happens during "Cycle 0" to kick off an agile project. This includes feasibility assessment, initial requirements modeling, initial architectural modeling, building the initial team, and initial estimating and planning.