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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/7

Mitch Pronschinske — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

The project manager of Jython announced he is quitting his job at Sun. Frank Wierzbicki helped design Jython, the Java implementation of Python, for five years while he worked at Sun. This departure comes just four months after two JRuby developers left Sun, citing the uncertainty surrounding the Oracle acquisition as their reason.

Convincing Your Boss to Go Agile

tiago_simoes — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:48:53 +0000

I still find this YouTube video (posted exactly 3 years ago) the best way to convince top managers to adopt an agile methodology. What about you? What arguments have you used to convince your managers and clients to adopt an agile methodology? ...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/6

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

After being criticized for selling Facebook fans and Twitter followers, uSocial says it has started selling YouTube viewers as well. uSocial says companies can improve audiences by buying a bunch of views rather than getting them organically. They claim that this 'seed method' can spur even more traffic. Prices start at $127 for 5,000 views.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report. Just a few weeks ago, the EU's Competition Commissioner reprimanded Oracle for making no effort to address concerns about owning MySQL, the worlds fastest growing open source database. Since Oracle hasn't budged on its intentions to keep MySQL as part of the deal, the...

Coping with change on Scrum projects (part I)

Agilebuddy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:31:37 +0000

Most folks don't like change. I know I don't. But one things certain, adopting an Agile approach to software development requires much change in an organization. Whether it's corporate culture, roles or process, as an organization switching to Agile you're going to have to learn cope with change. This series deals with how various functions in the Agile organization are expected to change in...

Mingle 3.0 and Google Wave Join Forces

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:51:54 +0000

ThoughtWorks Studios' Adaptive ALM software unveils major updates today at the Enterprise 2.0 conference.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/4

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:45:42 +0000

Adobe is lashing out at Apple on its Flash Player page for the iPhone. When you go to the Flash Player on your iPhone, the text now says "Apple restricts use of technologies required by products like Flash Player.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/3

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

An open source version of the Linux Skype client has been confirmed and is currently under development. A Skype blog says that the open sourcing of the UI will speed up development and allow the use of any GUI toolkit. Skype says this initial open source offering is part of a "larger offering," but they haven't said what this larger of

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/2

Mitch Pronschinske — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

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 from Russia's antitrust authority to wait for the EU ruling. Now that Oracle has drawn a line in the sand, saying it will keep My

Question on Module Design

kirkk — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:53:49 +0000

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 rough breakdown of the hands shown after each of the questions. James Sugrue

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/31

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:51:50 +0000

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 four decades. The change will be especially welcome in Asia, where over 42 percent of world Internet users are located. Though some think...

The SOA Manifesto in Review: A Guide For SOA Adoption

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:19:21 +0000

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 better software? What work is left to be done for SOA? To answer these questions, DZone spoke with two people who have studied the...

New Bug Tracker - YouTrack 1.0 Release

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:33:07 +0000

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 simplified YouTrack's controls in order to make an issue tracker that is easier to work with, and less time consuming.

Why We Delegate: The Darkness Principle

jurgenappelo — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:07:18 +0000

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 [...] If each element ‘knew’ what was happening to the system as a whole, all of the complexity would have to be present in that element....

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/30

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000

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 "Karmic Koala." Who knew Koalas believed in Karma?