via infoq.com One of the great things about a more open and computable layer of data on the web is the ability for us to use lighter weight technologies to interact with what was a hardcore enterprise technology. Check out the new JavaScript interfaces to Jabber/XMPP messaging systems … brings the real time web out of the age of polling to the age of message passing.

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 including: 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 ...

... Kanban vs Scrum - a practical guide Kenji Hiranabe on InfoQ: Kanban Applied to Software Development: From Agile to Lean ... Visualizing Agile Projects Using Kanban Boards Chris Sims on InfoQ: Are Kanban Workflows Agile? Jon Arild Torresdal on InfoQ: The Current Direction of Agile I can't help wondering whether some of these mis-statements are driven by vested interest. ...

Article on overcoming technical challenges with adopting agile methods was recently published at infoq.com – do check it out here: . The article covers: setting up developer environments automated testing & continuous integration ... meaning of “done” in your environment. Tagged: agile, challenges, continuous integration, enterprise, infoq, publications, technical, testing

I've just written up on InfoQ about the new ECMAScript 5 standard (also known as JavaScript™). It brings about several new changes to the language and runtime; it's only a matter of time ... in up-to-date browsers like WebKit and Chrome. Note to DZone referrals: I tried to put the InfoQ link above into the submission when posting this link originally; however, it didn't go through ...

InfoQ: Maintainable Automated Acceptance Tests "Automated tests that are brittle and expensive to maintain have led to companies abandoning test automation initiatives, according to Dale ... which falls short for scope isolation." …and a solution in CommonJS (javascript programming libraries ) InfoQ: BDD & DDD "Domain Driven Design (DDD) is about evolving a shared model of ...

Coding Horror: Software Branching and Parallel Universes Perforce: Laura Wingerd & Christopher Seiwald: High-level Best Practices in Software Configuration Management InfoQ: Version Control for Multiple Agile Teams BetterExplained: A Visual Guide to Version Control Branch Maintenance: Chapter 4. Common Branching Patterns Submerged: CollabNet's Subversion Blog: ...

SOA: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly InfoQ.com As we have reported many times before, one of the main prerequisites of SOA success is alignment of purpose and objectives between IT and business. ... Informatica platform cuts across data integration hurdles InfoWorld "With unique capabilities for business-IT collaboration, pervasive data quality and service-oriented architecture (SOA)- ...

... and only available to a small group of alpha testers till now. That changes today with the first public, alpha release! Back in early 2008, MagLev program manager Bob Walker did an interview with InfoQ about the project where he said that 8 people were working on MagLev, so this is a pretty big deal for them. Developer Avi Bryant then did a short presentation at RailsConf 2008 where he gave a ...

... ; Suppose the more experience you have with a particular knowledge domain, the less you need to plan the work? I picked this planning versus experience concept up from a Jim Coplien piece on InfoQ a few months ago. The idea was basically this; If you have 20 years experience doing roughly the same work you should acknowledge that the 20 years means you have a lot of your plan pre thought through ...

... . A total of six people from my company went, and two of them I didn’t expect to find there but was instead pleasantly surprised to meet up. The official tagline for QCOn is well-explained on the infoq web page, so go there and read it. I divided the post into three parts because one long post would keep me  up all night. This way, I can spit this out and finish it tomorrow. I0f you were ...

The JVM Language Summit 2009 took place in September. The first video of a full talk is now available on InfoQ, and it's Rich Hickey's keynote, "Are We There Yet?". John Rose has blogged about his paper on "Bytecodes meet Combinators: invokedynamic on the JVM" for the VMIL workshop at OOSPLA on the internals and implications of adding invokedynamic to the JVM. Lukas ...

From InfoQ In a challenging economy, Java developers have limited resources but face higher expectations to turn out better performing code—and do it faster. Trimmed budgets mean smaller teams. In addition, the market demands shortened development cycles. This document presents a performance testing strategy that can help you achieve more with less. It describes the importance of granular ...

... for me is redefining and completely changing my mental models of what personal responsibility is. I think my mental models were in line with society's mental models in general. Personal responsibility is the character InfoQ: Christopher Avery On Responsibility: summer jobs with the FAA in Alaska and with the CAB in Washington, D.C. In 1966, I joined American Airlines as a part-timer in air ...

Nice article by Catherine Connor in How Product Management Must Change to Enable the Agile Enterprise. She writes: When development teams adopt agile practices, product management is often caught off guard by the amount of work added to their already overflowing plate. Agile calls for new product management skills and traditional staffing models do not typically accommodate the new product ...