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ALM tools evolve in face of agile processes
Companies agree that strong project management tools are critical for managing faster iterations and increased collaboration
1/15/2010 8:30:00 AM
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Software developers becoming scarce
The economic downturn is blamed for reduction in number of working developers.
6/12/2009 8:30:00 AM
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A battle royale for RIA market
Developers say that a main factor in the use of Flex, JavaFX and Silverlight is the prior programming skills that an RIA builder brings to the table. The companies, meanwhile, discussed how they will try to find more uses for their platforms to stay ahead in a tight market.
4/15/2009 8:00:00 AM
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ColdFusion and Flash integrate in IDE
ColdFusion Builder brings stronger integration with the Flash platform and server management.
7/13/2009 8:30:00 AM
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Think like a hacker
Executives from IBM, Fortify, and other companies say that doing proper testing for security requires thinking like a hacker and instilling security into full development process. Getting into the minds of hackers pushes testers to find tangible security threats instead of hypothetical, harder-to-test vulnerabilities.
2/15/2009 8:30:00 AM
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Hitting the right notes in QA
Testing companies say metrics should offer insight into cost of ownership, code quality and application failure rate
8/15/2009 8:30:00 AM
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Mashups are poised for a business outbreak
IBM, JackBe and Serena say that mashups are gaining momentum in the enterprise. Meanwhile, a Forrester analyst says business mashup adoption is currently thin, but it will pick up in the next year.
5/14/2009 10:00:00 AM
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Agile for a new age
The 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto still ring true, agree agile experts at IBM, Serena and training consultancies. But they offer different views on how agile development can work in today's development environment, where cloud computing, multicore and global projects add complexity.
12/1/2008 9:01:00 AM
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Mashup alliance seeks universal language
The Open Mashup Alliance, a group of 11 companies, wants the Enterprise Mashup Markup Language standardized by a formal body
9/25/2009 8:30:00 AM
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IBM’s M2 corrals massive data sets with Hadoop
The new data analysis platform organizes large amounts of data from the Internet and other sources into an organized format
10/2/2009 8:30:00 AM
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CA builds agile project manager with help from Force.com
Leveraging Salesforce's cloud-computing platform, CA Agile Planner will provide the necessary tools for agile developers
11/24/2009 1:00:00 PM
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Innovation at work for SCM
Some of the top software configuration management companies tell about planned features in soon-to-be-released offerings.
7/15/2009 8:30:00 AM
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ALM opens doors to other brands and business pros
The next generation of application life-cycle management products emphasizes openness, but there are still those who prefer creating singular, integrated products. There is also growing interest in getting the business side to participate in ALM.
3/2/2009 11:52:00 AM
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zAgile eschews tools for open-source, integrated ALM
The company comes without any tools of its own, focusing purely on bringing third-party tools together in ALM. It comes with real-time dashboards to track the performance of developer projects.
3/6/2009 5:17:00 PM
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Gartner: The cloud and security are biggest trends for 2010
A Gartner survey outlined the 10 most strategic technologies that will be used next year
10/20/2009 5:00:00 PM
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AJAX remains a top RIA platform, preferred for stability
In the third installment of our occasional RIA series, we examine AJAX, which is favored by companies such as EMC and Roundarch. Issues remain with a lack of a centralized AJAX authority and an inability to handle very complex tasks.
12/29/2008 1:00:00 PM
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Open-source tools take hold in test/QA market
Last year, the testing market saw open-source tools like HtmlTestCase, STAF and Systir emerge, a marked increase over other years. Established companies also updated their testing/QA software.
1/2/2009 11:26:00 AM
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SCO to file bankruptcy plan tomorrow
After failed lawsuits, particularly against Novell, ate up funds, SCO declared bankruptcy last year. The company hopes to emerge from bankruptcy with a possibly renewed focus on its mobile development platform.
12/30/2008 4:00:00 PM
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Agile world’s a stage
Helping developers overcome their fear of agile development, consultants have team members act out and hang loose to get used to relinquishing control and aiming toward a team goal. Even though these techniques seem unorthodox, developers say that they work.
2/1/2009 8:30:00 PM
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GatherSpace works on being 'un-bloated'
GatherSpace 2.0 focuses on using a one-life-cycle phase approach as it streamlines its functionality
8/24/2009 2:00:00 PM
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