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Mitch Pronschinske11/02/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/2

Sun's stock price has fallen to 16% less than Oracle's offer price for the company.  It appears that more investors are concerned that the Sun acquisition could be blocked by the European Commission.  Oracle recently withdrew notification of the acquisition...

Kirk Knoernschild10/31/09
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Question on Module Design

Like last year, in my Agile Architecture - Technologies and Patterns session at SpringOne2GX, I asked the attendees the same three questions surrounding class, package, and module design. This year, I had roughly 80 folks attend the session, and here is the...

Mitch Pronschinske10/30/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/31

ICANN, the nonprofit responsible for worldwide domain names and IP addresses, has decided to allow the introduction of non-Latin characters into domain names.  ICANN chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush, says its the biggest technical change to the Internet in...

Mitch Pronschinske10/30/09
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The SOA Manifesto in Review: A Guide For SOA Adoption

The recent drafting of an SOA manifesto raises new questions about the current state of service-oriented architecture and the need for an SOA manifesto.  Why do we need an SOA manifesto at this point in time?  How will this manifesto help companies build...

Mitch Pronschinske10/30/09
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New Bug Tracker - YouTrack 1.0 Release

JetBrains has announced the GA release of its new bug and issue tracking software, YouTrack 1.0.  YouTrack is a web-based, keyboard-centric bug tracker with issue handling focused into only two controls, a search box and a command window.  JetBrains has...

Jurgen Appelo10/30/09
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Why We Delegate: The Darkness Principle

From a complexity perspective, there is a good reason why teams in an organization must be able to make decisions together. This follows logically from the Darkness Principle: Each element in the system is ignorant of the behavior of the system as a whole...

Mitch Pronschinske10/29/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/30

The final version of Ubuntu 9.10 is here at last.  The new system has improved graphics drivers along with DeviceKit and udev for the hardware interface instead of HAL.  For a full walkthrough of the features, check out this guided tour of Ubutnu 9.10...

Mitch Pronschinske10/29/09
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Top Open Source ESB Projects

In today's software markets, open source technologies are giving commercial products some stiff competition.  Enterprise Service Busses are no exception.  Don Rippert, the chief technology officer at Accenture says, "ESBs are software products that...

Mitch Pronschinske10/28/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/29

The US Department of Defence released a memo saying that they allow and encourage the use of open source software.  It took them six years to clarify this after a 2003 memorandum implied that the DoD shouldn't use open source.  Yet another example of speedy...

Steven Lott10/28/09
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Process Not Working -- Must Have More Process

After all, programmers are all lazy and stupid.Got his complaint recently."Developers on a fairly routine basis check in code into the wrong branch."Followed by a common form of the lazy and stupid complaint. "Someone should think about which...

Nitin Bharti10/23/09
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Exclusive Interview: Agile Alliance Managing Director, Phil Brock

While many industry conferences are contracting in size and even cancelling their shows, the Agile Alliance is worried about a different kind of problem: how...

Lyndsey Clevesy10/22/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/23

Firefox may release its upcoming version 3.6 as a so-called "minor update" even though it is actually a fairly major one.  Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox at Mozilla, details the reasons for this unusual step on a Mozilla developer's list...

Mitch Pronschinske10/22/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/22

According to Amazon, the world's biggest software company has also racked up the largest number of pre-orders of any product, EVER! That's right, Amazon says Microsoft's Windows 7 release is the most pre-ordered product in the e-tailer's history (yes,...

Steven Lott10/22/09
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Breaking into Agile

I had a recent conversation with some folks who were desperate to "processize" everything. They were asking about Scrum Master certification and what standards organizations define the "official" Scrum method.Interestingly, I also saw a...

Mitch Pronschinske10/21/09
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Top ALM Tools and Solutions Providers

A good application lifecycle management (ALM) package has software that is able to carefully manage and monitor all aspects of software development.  ALM applications provide tools for managing and completing the phases of design, development, testing,...

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