All over the world, there are classes that teach people how to flirt. A German university even requires their IT engineers take a flirting class—not to attract a partner, but to learn how to interact more effectively in the workplace. Flirting means connecting with others, and connecting is the key to good communication. That is what the first principal of the Agile Manifesto is all about. By Jenni (Dow) Jepsen
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Ruby VM Roundup: MacRuby 0.5 Beta 2 Adds AOT Tooling, Rubinius 0.13 Released
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Beta 2 of MacRuby 0.5 improves compatibility and adds new tools for Ahead of Time (AOT) compilation and building standalone applications. Rubinius 0.13 was released with improved performance using LLVM, a JIT and a new compiler. By Werner Schuster
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Google has open sourced Chrome OS a year before the planned launch which is to happen some time before winter holidays in 2010. Google is working with manufacturers on a new reference hardware to accommodate their speed and security requirements which are key features of their new operating system. By Abel Avram
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A few months ago Microsoft announced their plans to release the .NET Micro Framework as an open source project. Since then there has been rumors that Microsoft is using open source as an excuse to abandon the project. The truth is the exact opposite, Microsoft is actually using open source to drive the adoption of .NET Micro. By Jonathan Allen
Read more »JDK 7 Unexpectedly Gets “Simple†Closures, but is Pushed Back to End of 2010
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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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Clojars and Leiningen Automate Library and Dependency Management for Clojure
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Managing libraries and dependencies is tedious. Clojars is a new hosted repository for Clojure libraries inspired by Ruby Gems and Gemcutter. Together with a new build tool, Leiningen, Clojars takes the pain out of library management. InfoQ talked to Alex Osborne about Clojars and how it works.
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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 »SOA: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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A new developerWorks article by Jens Andexer and Willem Bekker describes business implications of SOA, stressing both its advantages and drawbacks. By Boris Lublinsky
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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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