The PMI Agile Community of Practice
9 Jul 2009 9:16pm GMT Agile and the Project Management Institute (PMI). For many years and for many people this combination of terms rings a similar connotation as "oil and water"; they don't mix. But, is this justified? Jesse Fewell, Dan Mezick, and others say no and are aiming to bring agile into the PMI with the new 'PMI Agile Community of Practice'. By Mike Bria
Microsoft’s Web Browser-Based OS: Gazelle
9 Jul 2009 6:14pm GMT Google isn’t the only company toying with the idea of a secure operating system based around a web browser. Back in February, researches at Microsoft revealed details about Gazelle. Gazelle claims to be “a multi-principal OS construction of a secure web browser. Gazelle’s Browser Kernel exclusively provides cross-principal protection and fair sharing of all system resources.” By Jonathan Allen
How Relevant Is Contract First Development Using Angle Brackets?
9 Jul 2009 5:30pm GMT Christian Weyer of Thinktecture, announced the release of WSCF.blue a Visual Studio Add-in that enables contract first development of web services using WCF. By Dilip Krishnan
Roundup: Scala as the long term replacement for Java
9 Jul 2009 3:04pm GMT Scala has been receiving much attention lately as a possible candidate to replace Java in the future. James Strachan creator of Groovy advocates in favor of Scala as James Gosling, creator of Java and Charles Nutter JRuby Core Developer, have done in the past. By Dionysios G. Synodinos
Handling Asynchronous REST Operations
9 Jul 2009 12:46am GMT In his new post, Tim Bray discusses the case for asynchronous REST operations and some of the approaches for supporting asynchronous invocations using REST. By Boris Lublinsky