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SOA 2.0
Not content with the SOA concept, Gartner and Oracle have created "SOA 2.0" as a label for a more advanced approach to service-orientation.
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Microsoft Launches CodePlex Online Development Environment
Microsoft has launched the Beta of CodePlex, an online software development environment for open and shared source developers to create, host and manage projects throughout the project lifecycle. Codeplex was developed from scratch using C# 2.0 with Team Foundation Server as the backend.
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Agile Well Represented at Better Software Conference 2006
Intrigued by all this Agile talk? Do you have a colleague you'd like to introduce to Agile concepts? While not explicitly an Agile event, almost one third of sessions at this conference represent Agile topics, and the roster of Agile speakers is impressive. It takes place this year in Las Vegas, June 26-29. TestDriven.com has compiled a list of the conference's 13 Agile sessions.
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"If you can't say something nice..."
David Anderson reflected recently on one simple tool for building trust in the workplace. What a difference a few words can make.
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Meeting the Challenge of Collective Code Ownership
The challenge: find the balance between pure practice and local compromise. Martin Fowler has brought us a story of a team in trouble, which took a step back to improve coding discipline and brush up on the basic practices that support collective ownership. In addition to the short-term gains of increased velocity and improved morale, the overall quality of the team's output improved as well.
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Web Beans submitted to JCP, aims to unify EJB and web tier
JBoss has submitted "Web Beans" to the JCP, with support from Oracle, Sun, Borland, and Google. Web Beans aims to enable EJB 3 session and entity beans to be used as JSF managed beans (known as actions in other frameworks) eliminating the dual layers of web actions and EJB's common in web apps. Gavin King will be the spec lead.
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Discussion: "Decide as Late as Possible"
Lean Software Development says "decide as late as possible", but this goes against the grain for new Agile managers and team leads, who used to be responsible for careful up-front planning. Can this possibly be right? A group of ScrumMasters recently discussed the topic.
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Sign up for the APLN Leadership Summit at Agile 2006
The APLN Leadership Summit will be held at the Agile 2006 conference in Minneapolis on July 26 this year.
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Thirty Days to Better Software
J.T. King describes the idea that you can slowly improve the way that you work over time by trying something for 30 days, giving it a fair chance, then assessing how well it worked for you.
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Agile vs. Formal Methods
Should you adopt an agile method or a more formal one? Which is right for you? Perhaps you should mix and match?
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Are Traditional Project Managers De-Agilizing Projects?
David Nicolette fears that it is all too common to see agile teams have a traditional manager thrust upon them who doesn't understand agile and thereby harms the project through over control.
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Interview with Mongrel Author Zed Shaw
Well-known Rails programmer Zed Shaw was interviewed by O'Reilly. Zed talked about Ruby on Rails and his work on an up-and-coming new HTTP server named Mongrel that is winning accolades all over the community.
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Sun commits to open source Java eventually
At Java One this week Sun said that open sourcing Java is no longer a question of whether, but how. This marks a different tone from previous years, perhaps the Apache Harmony project is succeeding in slowly turning Sun away into a different direction. Community reaction to the news has been mixed.
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Software Manager Basics Explained
Most software managers began their careers as software developers. They either had some ambition, some skill recognized as good management material, or were in the right/wrong place at the right/wrong time. If you find yourself in a management position, or in a team lead position, how do you succeed?
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Groovy gets a contribution from Oracle; ongoing Grails contributions discussed
Oracle has recently contributed an extension to the Groovy JMX MBean. An ongoing contribution is currently being discussed between Oracle and the Groovy and Grails leads about Oracle's intention to contribute ongoing engineering and QA resources to the projects. Oracle believes that better integration makes Grails potentially better suited for mainstream enterprise adoption than Rails.