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The Pros and Cons of Pair Programming

Pair programming is one of the most controversial agile practices and is also the least commonly used in the field, as far as I can tell. I think there are

BlackBerry Buys Good Technology for $425 Million

BlackBerry has purchased mobility management software vendor Good Technology for $425 million in cash. Once a leading smartphone vendor, BlackBerry is now concentrating on enterprise mobility software after seeing its

Microsoft Azure Adds GS-Series VMs, R Support

Microsoft Azure has announced two new additions to its cloud computing services. First, it is now offering GS-series virtual machines (VMs) which combine its high-powered G-Series VMs with premium storage.

Why Cross-browser Testing Is Necessary

“You can’t load the website? Try another browser!” This is the most common advice we receive when unable to load a website on the default browser. To prevent Internet Explorer

Dell Announces Hybrid Cloud Computing Tools

At the VMworld 2015 event this week, Dell unveiled a number of updates and additions to its hybrid cloud computing portfolio. It announced Active System Manager 8.1.1., which now integrates

Microsoft Releases Office UI Fabric on GitHub

Microsoft has launched a new set of development tools called Office UI Fabric, which will make it easier to create add-ins for Microsoft Office. Office add-ins are written in HTML

Cisco, Apple Announce Enterprise Mobile Partnership

Cisco and Apple have announced that they are working together on a new strategic initiative aimed at enterprise mobile. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will optimize its networking

Exploring the .NET Execution Engine (DNX)

The Microsoft .NET team has lately been putting forth a great deal of effort to increase the footprint of the .NET Framework in the world of building cross platform and

The Metrics Behind Successful SaaS Firms

TechCrunch has posted an interesting analysis of successful enterprise software as a service companies. They looked at 66 leading SaaS firms that either went public or were acquired with a

Getting Started with Redis

Redis is an in-memory key value store with benefits that is free and open source. It is implemented in C and it is lightning fast. Redis is mature (version 3.03

Agile and the Decision-Making Process

Decision-making is at the heart of any organized activity and, as such, there are significant associated risks and costs. The higher up you are on the totem pole the more

Google Will Now Let You Mail Data to Its Cloud

Google has officially launched a service called Offline Media Import/Export that will allows developers and others to send in physical media which Google will then upload to its cloud computing

Linux Container Hypervisor (LXD) RESTful API

The recently concluded ContainerCon?generated quite a lot of excitement around container technologies. The updates from the Linux Container (LXC) project were particularly interesting. Canonical, the company that is spearheading the

Survey Shows Little Agreement on Definition of DevOps

Delphix Corp. has published a new report titled “2015 Annual State of DevOps,” which finds that DevOps leaders and practitioners define DevOps in many different ways. “For some people, embracing

IBM Launches New Eclipse Tools for Bluemix

IBM has announced several updates and additions to its Bluemix platform as a service. First it updated IBM Eclipse Tools for Bluemix with support for the Mars train of updates

Micro Focus Brings COBOL to Visual Studio 2015

Micro Focus has released an updated version of Visual COBOL for Visual Studio, which makes it possible to edit and write code in the aging programming language with the latest

Getting the Best From Microservices and Databases

The Database in a Traditional Monolithic System The database in a traditional enterprise software environment is at the center of everything. It is typically a centralized, big, inflexible relational database

Netflix Releases Falcor Open Source JavaScript Tool

Video streaming service Netflix has open sourced one of its internally developed JavaScript libraries that could be very useful for mobile development. Called Falcor (after the luckdragon in The Neverending

LinkedIn Open Sources Gradle Plugin for Hadoop

LinkedIn has announced that it is releasing its Gradle Plugin for Apache Hadoop under an open source license. Developed in-house by LinkedIn developers, the big data tool is now available

IBM, Linux Foundation Launch Open Mainframe Project

IBM, the Linux Foundation and several other organizations have announced a project aimed at open sourcing mainframe computing. IBM said that it will contribute 250,000 lines of code to the

The Single Most Important Agile Practice

The Agile style of development is considered best for many organizations and projects. There is a lot of criticism too, but overall it gained significant mind share and developers use

Searching for the Best Programming Language

What is the best programming language across the board? There is no such thing, of course. Each programming language has different strengths and weaknesses, different design goals and an entire