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What to Do If You’re on an Overworked Team The potential toll from being overworked includes fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, stress, and difficulty concentrating. The team effort can suffer, too. Here are some tips on what to do if you're a boss who has to overwork employees for a time, or if you're a team member dealing with being overworked. |
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How DevOps Helps Move Your Automated Testing to the Cloud Because of its ability to advance the time-to-release and the overall quality of software, automated testing has been steadily growing in popularity. Sumit Mehrotra explains how virtualization and a hybrid cloud-based model provide for dynamic capacity management and a well-resourced IT department. |
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Mastering the Black Art of Software Project Estimation Estimation at the start of a software development project doesn't have to be done blindly; nor does it have to involve making empty promises. By incorporating agile—or even an estimation center of excellence—both customers and developers can have a much clearer view of the road ahead. |
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A Look at the Past and Present Worlds of SCM Tools Joe Townsend takes a look at software configuration management (SCM) tools, examines the companies that were once considered market leaders in this space, and notes the rise in popularity of Subversion and Git, which control almost 75 percent of the market share for Eclipse users. |
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Companies Going from Public to Private—Is This a New Trend? In the lifecycle of a company an IPO is a significant milestone to generate the required funds to empower its operations. The mandates that follow from going public can make a company lose its long-term vision. Rajini Padmanaban profiles companies who are going from public to private. |
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How Perceptual Computing Develops Science Nonfiction New devices that we could only have dreamed of a few short years ago are now seemingly coming out every week. From Leap Motion to Microsoft Kinect to facial recognition technology's many applications, perceptual computing is leading the charge toward the future of some very impressive inventions. |
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How Could Google Possibly Top Its Latest “Moon Shot”? Google's done it again. Another day, another new life-changing project announcement. But expect the news of this one to stick around a little longer, and expect the critics to be a little quieter—or even completely nonexistent. What is Google aiming for, and why should we all be on its side? |
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If There Is No Network, There Is No Cloud As more services shift to the cloud, the reliability, security, and quality of the network become of paramount importance. Beth Cohen examines private networks as a way to solve the problem of notoriously unreliable Internet service. |
