Java Cloud Strategy
Published January 31st, 2012 Under Software Development | Leave a Comment
The Cloud approach is gaining ground in organizations as the new standard for IT infrastructure. We mostly see it in its “public” version with offers like Amazon Web Services, Cloud Foundry or Windows Azure. There is however also the emergence of “private” clouds that are operated inside organizations.
The Cloud Computing Development web site has published an interview of Rajesh Ramchandani, who is the founder and VP of Products of CumuLogic. This company was founded by former Sun executives and has the famous James Gosling in its advisory board. In this article, he discusses the strategy of CumuLogic as a provider of private Platform as a Service (PaaS) software for Java. Their product allows multiple private and/or public clouds to be supported at the same time, therefore avoiding cloud (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) vendor lock-in.
The True Face of the JavaZone Trolls
Published November 8th, 2011 Under Humour | 2 Comments
The Norwegian JavaZone conference is already known for its humorous video trailers, but you can also have some fun on their web site as you can see in the image below that appeared yesterday when a (short) server issue happened during my last visit. Looking at this information, I suspect that Java might be an easier language than I thought…
Retrospectives, Standards, User Experience and HTML5 in the Fall 2011 issue of Methods & Tools
Published September 20th, 2011 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools – the free magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Fall 2011 issue with the following articles that focuses mainly on user interface and project management practices:
* Dialogue Sheets for Scrum Retrospectives – Helping Scrum Improvement
* Using Models and Standards – Tools for Software Processes
* The Psychology of UX – Understand your Users
* HTML5 for Rich Web Enterprise Applications – What Does HTML5 Brings to the Web?
* Gradle – a revolutionary Groovy based build tool
* Saros – an Eclipse plug-in for Distributed Programming
* StarUML – an Open Source UML tool
50 pages of software development knowledge that you can freely download from http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?fall11
Software Linkopedia September 2011
Published September 7th, 2011 Under Links | Leave a Comment
Web Site: Introduction to Databases – Stanford University Free Online Course
Blog: The 10 Minute Test Plan
Blog: A Checklist for a Distributed Retrospective
Blog: Appraisals and Agile Don’t Play Nicely
Article: Rational Unified Best Practices: A Primer for the Project Manager
Article: Defining Software Quality and Economic Value
Article: Tools and Techniques for .NET Code Profiling
Article: Scenarios for Load Testing
Tool: Sureassert UC – integrated Java unit testing solution for Eclipse
Tool: NDBGen – C# LINQ-to-SQL models and SQL installation script generator
Video: JUnit Tutorial
Video: Cloud Computing Economics
Video: Scrum Sprint Showcase
Find more interesting links on the software development resources directory, the software development tools directory, the software development articles directory, the software development blogs aggregator or the software development videos directory.
Java Quality and Software Testing in the Summer 2011 issue of Methods & Tools
Published June 20th, 2011 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools – the free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Summer 2011 issue with the following articles:
* Continuous Delivery Using Build Pipelines With Jenkins and Ant
* Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Software Measurement
* The Art of Mocking
* Restructure101 for Java – Refactor Your Software Architecture
* Maven – Java Build Management
* Automated WebTesting with Selenium RC
* Liquibase – Open Source Dababase Version Control
55 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?summer11
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