During his Devoxx talk, Mark Reinhold has announced that JDK 7 will have Closures. With the inclusion of this much debated feature, JDK 7 schedule will be extended until around September 2010. By Dionysios G. Synodinos
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Test Driven Development and the Trouble with Legacy Code
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Alan Baljeu was trying to use TDD with his large, legacy C++ code base. He found that the principle of the simplest thing that could possibly work was causing him trouble with the amount of rework. By Mark Levison
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Silverlight 4 Developer Beta Is Packed with New Features
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Microsoft has announced the availability of Silverlight 4 Developer Beta at PDC 2009 only months after the previous release, Silverlight 3. There are numerous new features: a comprehensive set of controls (over 60), one code both for the desktop and Silverlight sandbox, MEF support, a fully editable design surface, full Intellisense, better audio-video support, better performance and many more. By Abel Avram
Read more »Looking Inward To Stop An Agile "Decline And Fall"
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Discussions about agile's "decline and fall" have been a somewhat recurring theme here on the AgileQ, and in the community in general, centering around sentiments that people aren't adopting agile effectively, that they're doing it wrong and screwing it up. Kevin Schlabach poses the idea that the agile community itself, by not growing new leaders, has a hand in causing this. By Mike Bria
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Microsoft Proposes OData as de facto Web Data Protocol
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Microsoft proposes OData as the web data protocol while Google uses GData. Microsoft invites Google to join forces with them in adopting OData. Will they do it? By Abel Avram
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Cloud computing is a game changer for developers. Not because it requires a new architectural model, that is driven as much by fads and fashion as it is by actual hardware requirements. Nor is it the seemingly endless capacity with near-perfect scalability that the cloud is promising. The game changer is how poorly performing code now has a real price in hard currency. By Jonathan Allen
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Tips to Select a Pilot Project for Agile Adoption
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One of the most important factors which influences the success of Agile adoption is the set of learnings derived by applying Agile to a pilot project. These learnings significantly influence the organization to go ahead with Agile or fall back to their usual process. A wrong type of pilot could end up aborting, which would be a poor advertisement for the new process. By Vikas Hazrati
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Beta Versions Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 Released
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Adobe Systems has announced the availability of beta versions of Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0, which is can be downloaded from the Adobe Labs site. By Jon Rose
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Mindfulness and Agile Teams
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At Oredev 2009 Marc Lesser gave a keynote titled "accomplishing more by doing less". Although not directly about Agile development, the topic will resonate with many Agile practitioners and is related to the success of self organizing teams. By Amr Elssamadisy
Read more »Amazon Helps .NET Developers Program for Its Clouds
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Amazon has released the AWS SDK for .NET, a set of libraries, code samples and documentation for .NET developers creating applications that use Amazon’s cloud. By Abel Avram
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