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HTML5 and jQuery: The Light at the End of the Tunnel HTML5 and jQuery are tools that can live on any Internet browser that supports them. They can operate across devices—iPhones, iPads, Galaxies, Blackberrys, etc.—unlike an app that can only work on one device, using possibly only one version of an operating system, before an update is required. |
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Why COBOL Will Never Die Despite the arrival of newer languages and the transition away from mainframes, COBOL has managed to hang around. One reason it can’t die is that there remains a reported 220 billion lines of COBOL code still in use. |
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Culture Shock: A Battle of the Sexes in Software Development The number of women in the field of software development has been on a steady decline for decades and little has been done to buck the trend. The need to ask why this lack of parity exists has passed. Today, groups are working to correct the problem—and not just continue to point it out. |
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Cyber Attacks: The Effect on CM and QA This month US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta issued a call to arms over the growing cyber attacks on American banks. Joe Townsend explores how these attacks will affect configuration management professionals and quality assurance dilemmas. |
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Does Agile Work with a Command and Control Leadership? With the popularity of agile methods, especially Scrum, the discussions around collaborative, command and control leadership (C2) styles have increased greatly. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy explains whether or not being agile clashes with the C2 style of leadership. |
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From Acceptance Criteria to Acceptable Product Using acceptance criteria to define an acceptable product works all the way up the stack from clarifying what the development team is being asked to do, to understanding what the users really need, to defining the minimum viable product that allows the company to achieve its goals. |
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What You Need to Know about Creating Kindle Fire Apps The Kindle Fire is one of the most popular tablets on the market. But like all devices, it has its own set of development and testing challenges. Here’s what you need to know to create a successful Kindle app. |
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J2EE Fails to Reach the Cloud Java cloud technologies are far from commoditization and standardization. When migrating applications to the cloud, development teams should review innovative vendor solutions delivering cloud-aware architecture rather than rely on a Java EE7 imprimatur. |
