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- Microsoft postpones 'Viridian' virtualization features
- Microsoft postpones 'Viridian' virtualization featuresDOAntAgileAgile programming supports the move Microsoft just made. For old timers who haven't been exposed to this notion, software development no longer involves prototypes which may or may not be utilized in an actual product but rather involves functional code that may not be fully featured....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Data centers, Utility computing, Storage management, Agile Programming, Running Process, Microsoft Corp., virtualization, Viridian, Agile, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
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- Yahoo pays its 'technical debt' with IT overhaul
- Yahoo had a lot of "technical debt"---systems that most companies would call legacy infrastructure---and has it just about paid off. Sam Pullara, chief technologist at Yahoo, walked developers through its infrastructure changes over the last three years. The talk could have come from any enterprise that finds...
- Tags: Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Sam Pullara, HBase, YQL, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Open Source, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Sprintometer 3.0 (Windows)
- Sprintometer is a simple tool with modern GUI for SCRUM and Extreme Programming projects' tracking. Enhanced Burn-down with 95% statistical sector. Support for variable team size. Prediction of deviation from sprint/iteration plan. Export to Microsoft Excel for all charts and spreadsheets. Data in local file or in shared DB on...
- Tags: Server, Microsoft Windows, Sprintometer, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2009-08-06
- Lionsgate Produces One-Minute Reports With IBM Systems Solution for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator
- Lionsgate, in Santa Monica, CA, is one of the leading independent producer and distributors of motion pictures, television programming, entertainment, video-on-demand and digitally delivered content. The IT department was concerned that the demand for information could easily outgrow the ability of their technology to deliver reports. Since information is the...
- Tags: SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, IBM Corp., Lionsgate, Video On Demand (VoD), Web Services, Blade Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Development Tools, Servers, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Software, Hardware, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- Trendspotter calls for evolutionary adaptable software systems
- When you consider the quantity and diversity of models and philosophies available for software development, it's a wonder why many projects fail even when developers deliver on key criteria such as functionality, efficiency, reliability, and so on. There's even a ZDNet blog that chronicles IT project mishap after mishap. ...
- Tags: Software, David Tow, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Management, Software/Web Development, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Progress gives CEP a performance boost with multi-core support on Apama
- CEP is being newly perceived by some as much more tangible to business users than the more nerdy benefits of SOA, such as reuse of services for more agile programming of new applications. Talk about the benefits of CEP and business users eye light up. Talk about the benefits of...
- Tags: Performance, SOA, Multi-core, CEP, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Benefits, Operational Planning, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- 10 skills developers will need in the next five years
- Guest post: If you’re a developer looking to get ahead in your field (or in some cases, to simply stay employed), this is not a good time to be complacent. TechRepublic's Justin James lists the skills you’ll want to work on now to maximize your future job prospects. For more...
- Tags: Job, Developer, Web, Agile, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- ScrumTools 1.1 (Mobile)
- ScrumTools is a collection of agile software development utilities. Version 1 contains a stand-up meeting timer and planning poker cards. The daily 15 minute stand-up meeting is a key part of agile software development methodologies such as Scrum and eXtreme Programming XP. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to keep them...
- Tags: Software, Mobile, Minute, Apple iTunes, LongTrek, ScrumTools, Stand-up Timer, Software Development, Development Tools, Digital Music, Digital Media, Software/Web Development, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-11-26
- SpiraPlan 2.0.1 (Windows)
- SpiraPlan provides a complete Agile Project Management System in one package, that can manage your project's requirements, releases, iterations, tasks and issues in one environment, fully synchronized.Designed specifically to support agile methodologies such as Extreme Programming XP, Scrum, DSDM and Agile Unified Process AUP it allows teams to manage all...
- Tags: Environment, Inflectra, SpiraPlan, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-10-30
- An Event Apart 2008: Day 2
- The second day of An Event Apart will feature plenty of web standards jargon. I will be posting photos and notes from today's events. Unfortunately, the slides are reserved for attendees only, but I will try to gather as much information as...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microformat, Tool, Post-it Note, Eric Meyer, CSS, Productivity, Keyboards, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Who should be thanked for the return of Mr. Jobs to Apple?
- News of Singularity, a non-Windows operating system from Microsoft, sparked my interest in OSes past and present. It got me thumbing though the back issues of MacWEEK for memories of OSes that were built from scratch and now forgotten. But in the research, I found some ironic gold regarding NeXTstep,...
- Tags: Strategy, Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, MacWeek, Operating System, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., NeXTstep, Singularity OS, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Survey%3A+companies+investing+millions+in+SOA%2C+but+don%27t+exactly+know+why
- Survey%3A+companies+investing+millions+in+SOA%2C+but+don%27t+exactly+know+whyOverall, Good NewsThe survey seems to reflect the notion that the real goal of SOA - agility through rapid orchestration of services into new processes, is still a long term prospect, and still just beyond reach. The good news is that companies are finding significant value in the secondary...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, survey, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Microsoft declares its modeling love with a new language, 'D'
- Microsoft declares its modeling love with a new language, 'D'or maybeOr maybe its time to start using a managed language, professional IDE, and the .NET Framework to solve all the problems you mentioned above and many more! VB.NET or C# offer much better options than yesterday's languages.Not Invented Here[i]Maybe it's...
- Tags: C#, Programming languages, Research & Development, .NET, Development tools, modeling, HTML web page, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- Ruby on Rails: Everyone's Talking About It - Are You?
- Ruby on Rails, often referred to as Rails, is an open source web project that couples the Ruby programming language with the Rails web application framework. It is ideally suited for creating customer-facing web applications and its growing popularity is due to its ability to speed development while enriching user...
- Tags: Web Application, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Cloud Computing, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- White papers 2008-01-01
- AgileTrack 1.1.4 (Windows)
- AgileTrack is an Java based application for tracking software development in agile development or extreme programming XP teams. It includes support for managing stories and other issues, sub-tasks, tracking time, managing multiple projects, planning iterations, and providing iteration reports. It provides a unique interface that is simple to use and...
- Tags: AgileTrack Software, AgileTrack, Software Development, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Management
- Software downloads 2007-12-28
- 56% of developers use scripting languages
- Scripting languages are used by 56% of developers today, and while more than half of those developers use scripts less than 20% of the time, both the total number of developers using scripting languages and the amount of time spent is expected to increase during the coming year, Evans Data...
- Tags: Developer, Scripting Language, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, site admin
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- Richard Monson-Haefel responds, still gets it wrong
- Last week I took Burton group analyst Richard Monson-Haefel to task for a post he made about Android. Yesterday he responded and attempted to clarify his position in "Why Microsoft Loves Google Android, Take 2". While Richard deserves credit for being a good sport about my criticism, I still disagree...
- Tags: JCP, Richard Monson-Haefel, Android, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Agile development, early warning, Darwin, and failure
- Some IT projects are destined to fail due to haphazard planning, poor execution, or unexpected changes in the business or technical environment. Given the high incidence of failure, innovative methods for uncovering weak projects are always welcome. If discovered in time, risky projects can be fixed or killed; of course,...
- Tags: Software, Project, Information Technology, Failure, IT Success, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-11-25
- A programming proposition
- A programming propositionThe problems with prototyping(1) Validation and verification, especially of non-trivial functionality (beyond CRUD + basic aggregation), can be as or more costly than implementation activities. All changes to a production system require regression testing first.(2) Validation and verification are short-changed, leading to applications that yield incorrect and...
- Tags: approval process, specification, programming proposition, programming
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- SAP SRM, another brick from the wall
- SAP SRM, another brick from the wallSaaS is for Agile OrganizationsI think SaaS winds up being the moral equivalent of Agile Programming. There are certainly a lot of similarities that your post has made me think about:http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/saas-limits-over-engineering-too-by-forcing-agile-development/Cheers,BW
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Construction, SAP SRM, Agile, software-as-a-service, wall, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2007-10-23
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