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Is Google Going Agile?

In a recent blog post, Google’s Anthony Laforge announced, “Running under ideal conditions, we will be looking to release a new stable version about once every six weeks, roughly twice

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Mono Going Mobile with Visual Studio

In the past, Novell’s Mono Tools for Visual Studio only supported the company’s own Linux distribution, SUSE. However, recent releases have added support for RedHat, and now version 2.0 makes

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Programming, Development Skills in Demand

According to online job board Dice, U.S. demand for developers with Java/J2EE skills has become particularly strong, with 14,000 job postings nationwide. Employers are also looking for programmers with C#,

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Cloud Working Group Developing Standard APIs

The DMTF is planning to create a standard vocabulary and set of application programming interfaces for cloud computing vendors. On Monday, the DMTF (formerly known as the Distributed Management Task

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Google Executive Frustrated by Java, C++ Complexity

At the O’Reilly Open Source Conference, Google distinguished engineer Rob Pike told attendees that “industrial programming languages” like Java and C++ have become too complex. “I think these languages are

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Microsoft Visual Studio Adds Scrum Component

This week, Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio Scrum 1.0, an extension for Visual Studio which works with the Team Foundation Server 2010 application lifecycle management (ALM) server. “So, why a new