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Using Experiential Activities to Teach Software Development Concepts Experiential learning, or using activities such as simulations, helps people glean lessons on their own rather than having that knowledge presented to them. Activities need not be lengthy to be effective. In fact, simple exercises can help a team understand the complexities of software development. |
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How the Weather Company Is Using Big Data to Stay ahead of the Storm The Weather Company is moving to a NoSQL-powered big-data platform, which can gather some twenty terabytes of weather data a day. The NoSQL environment’s ability to scale to extremely large sizes helps with the intake of this additional data, and faster queries mean quicker, more accurate forecasts. |
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Reactions Reveal Our Expectations for Software Quality Bonnie Bailey explains how our reactions can reveal what our expectations are for software quality. Quality is easier to recognize by our reactions than by what metrics, tools, or automation results tell us—no matter how much stock we put in their reliability. |
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New Relic Makes a Splash with Software Analytics If the words “big data” seem like something that’s out of grasp for your software development shop, New Relic has a solution for you. This week, New Relic made a big splash with its announcement of New Relic Insights, based on what the company calls “software analytics.” |
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Coding for Children Should Add, Not Subtract, Knowledge There has been a strong push to make teaching students how to program part of the academic requirements in public schools, with a legislative push to have coding replace foreign language requirements and cursive. However, maybe we should focus on adding knowledge—not taking it away. |
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Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight Leads to Crowdsourcing Search Party Satellite imaging company DigitalGlobe is posting photos of the sea where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is likely to have gone down and asking for the public’s help to comb through them. Its pictures map thousands of square miles, prompting a crowdsourcing effort to scour the open water for evidence. |
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Developers Look Forward to Java SE 8's Features Despite the decision by Oracle to remove the stripped implementations feature and then defer Project Jigsaw to the proposed 2015 release of Java SE 9, Java SE 8’s release on March 18 is quickly causing excitement and anticipation among developers. |
