Design Thinking and Culture of Radical Collaboration

Design thinking is about creating vision of the future, not just managing the present. Bill Burnett from Stanford University recently spoke about design thinking and what questions we need to ask to shift from design to design thinking. By Srini Penchik.....»»

[Via: INFOQ][Cat: software]May 15th, 2012Related News

Fine-Tune Google Searches, Send Texts With Google Voice

Learn how to narrow Google Search results, use Google Voice to send text messages from a tablet......»»

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EU to "remain Vigilant" on Microsoft"s Browser Commitments

Regulators in Europe said Tuesday they will watch closely to make sure Microsoft complies with its commitments to ensure competition in the browser market, after........»»

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Presentation: Glu-ing The Last Mile

Ken Sipe introduces Glu, an open source deployment automation tool coming from LinkedIn, showing how to perform Glu configuration along with a demo of using it. By Ken Sipe.....»»

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Presentation: Deliver Early - There Is No Excuse!

Jesper Boeg discusses why it is important to deliver software early, why it is difficult to do so, along with tools/tips/practices: shared vision, story maps, coaching, and others. By Jesper Boeg.....»»

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Presentation: High Availability at Heroku

Mark McGranaghan presents how Heroku has designed, developed and operated cloud services providing high availability for their PaaS. By Mark McGranaghan.....»»

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VMware"s vFabric Suite Gains Automated Deployment and PostgreSQL Support

VMware has today announced VMware vFabric Suite 5.1, adding automated deployment, enterprise open source support, and PostgreSQL capabilities, as well as an expansion to the SQLFire in-memory database. By Charles Humble.....»»

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Xamarin’s Mono for Android Now Includes a Visual Designer

Xamarin has announced a visual designer for their Mono for Android development tool integrated with Visual Studio or MonoDevelop. By Abel Avram.....»»

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Presentation: A Snapshot of the Mobile HTML5 Revolution

James Pearce discusses the status of HTML5, what it can do today and what it still missing across major mobile browsers. By James Pearce.....»»

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Interview: Big Data Architecture at LinkedIn

In this interview with at QCon London, LinkedIn’s Sid Anand discusses the problems they face when serving high-traffic, high-volume data. Sid explains how they’re moving some use cases from Oracle to gain headroom, and lifts the hood on their open sou.....»»

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Presentation: Polyglot Programming: The Power of Hybridization

Bruce Eckel emphasizes using different languages within a project, each one for the task it is better fitted for, and giving several such examples: Python+Scala, Go+Python, Python+CoffeeScript. By Bruce Eckel.....»»

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Presentation: The JavaScript World Domination Plan at 16 Years

Brendan Eich recaps the major milestones and controversies in JavaScript’s history, the performance improvements, the current work on the next version of JavaScript, ending with some demoes. By Brendan Eich.....»»

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Entity Framework 5 Sample Provider

The EF team at Microsoft has announced a sample database Provider Entity Framework 5 for SQL Server, with support for some of the new EF features. By Roopesh Shenoy.....»»

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Interview: IBM"s Tim Ellison on the Future of Java

Tim Ellison talks to Charles Humble about Lambda, extension methods, modularity, and plans for Java beyond Java 8 By Tim Ellison.....»»

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Article: Dan Allen on Arquillian Testing Framework

Arquillian is an integration and functional testing platform that can be used for Java middleware testing. It helps bring the tests to the runtime environment, freeing developers from managing runtime from within the test. InfoQ caught up with Arquillian .....»»

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IEEE Experts Summit on Mastering Uncertainty

On 26th June the IEEE is organizing a one day expert summit in London called Mastering Uncertainty in the Software Industry: Risks, Rewards, and Reality at the British Computer Society. By Michael Stal.....»»

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Presentation: Cloud-Powered Continuous Integration and Deployment

Jinesh Varia discusses automating continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous optimization in the context of using cloud computing services. By Jinesh Varia.....»»

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Why is Mozilla Targeting Microsoft and Not Apple in Browser Spat?

Why hasn't Mozilla lambasted Apple, as it did Microsoft, for blocking rival browsers from its mobile operating system?.....»»

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AWS Beanstalk For .NET, RDS For SQL Server

Amazon has announced support for .NET on AWS Elastic Beanstalk and a new RDS service for SQL Server, bringing better manageability to .NET/SQL Server apps hosted on AWS. By Roopesh Shenoy.....»»

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What’s in a Name? Change in Windows Azure Billing Portal Causes Confusion

This week, Microsoft notified its customers that it was re-naming all of the services that comprise the Windows Azure cloud offering. Confusion ensued as some wondered if Microsoft was abandoning the Azure branding, but subsequent information revealed tha.....»»

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