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How Business Mapping Increases Agility at Lloyds Bank
Tony Grout and Chris Matts spoke about the emerging areas of business mapping and skills liquidity at QCon London 2016 and how they apply them at Lloyds Bank. They showed how they deploy these techniques and explained how they combine business strategy with the abilities and aspirations of people to improve collaboration between business and technical stakeholders. InfoQ interviewed them.
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Mike Cohn Explains How to Prevent Estimate Inflation
Mike Cohn explains how to prevent estimate inflation.
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Lessons Learned from Eight Years of Using NoSQL
NoSQL database adoption in a large organization takes significant effort and time for the transition from using relational database models to NoSQL databases. Mike Bowers, Enterprise Data Architect at LDS Church, spoke at the recent Enterprise Data World Conference about lessons learned from eight years of using NoSQL databases.
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Agile Alliance Technical Conference Videos Available
The first Agile Alliance Technical Conference was recently held. The conference had a strong focus on the strong technical skills needed to make agile software development effective and covered a wide range of technical topics. There were two keynote talks by Sandi Metz on the challenges to professionalism and Uncle Bob Martin on why it is so important. The conference videos are now available.
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Mercurial 3.8 Released with New Fast Client for Mercurial Command Server
Mercurial has reached version 3.8. This release brings cHg a new Mercurial command server client aimed to improve access to Mercurial API and circumvent potential licensing issues. Additionally, Mercurial 3.8 brings improvements to many commands and extensions, and various performance improvements.
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Deep Dive into New Angular Compiler at ng-conf 2016
The day 2 keynote at ng-conf 2016 provided a deep dive into the new offline compiler and showcased some of the directions Angular 2 is moving towards in the future.
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Deep Mind Discloses Details to InfoQ about NHS Partnership amid Reports of Vast Patient Data Access
After months of awaiting details about the NHS and Google DeepMind partnership InfoQ gains insights into recent claims of widespread patient data access.
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Three Development Patterns of Angular Universal
At the 2016 ng-conf, Jeff Whelpley and Patrick Stapleton showed off Angular Universal, the ability to render an Angular app on the server. Often, there are a few patterns that Angular Universal projects run into. Whelpley and Stapleton show off how to deal with three of those patterns.
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Mobbing on an Article
At the first Mob Programming Conference a group of authors experimented with mobbing to write a news item about working in this way. This is the result.
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Angular 2 Reaches Release Candidate at ng-conf 2016
At the 2016 ng-conf, Brad Green and Jules Kremer took the Keynote stage to show off a little bit of the new Angular 2 Release Candidate and showcase some of the new features and community efforts.
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GitLab Discloses Critical Vulnerability, Provides Patch
GitLab has just announced a fix for a number of important security fixes, including a critical privilege escalation, and strongly recommends that all GitLab installations from version 8.2 onwards be upgraded immediately. InfoQ has spoken with GitLab’s Stan Hu, VP of Engineering.
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Ticketmaster Launches API Suite
Ticketmaster joined the event API landscape in late March with the launch of their developer portal, a suite of public-facing APIs, Web page widgets, and a forthcoming SDK for mobile application integration.
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SQL Server 2005 is No Longer Receiving Security Updates
SQL Server 2005 has now officially hit its end of life. This means that it will no longer receive security updates and new vulnerabilities that are discovered will go unfixed. Yet a recent survey commissioned by Microsoft showed that 46% of companies using SQL Server had at least one production machine running SQL Server 2005.
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DIGIT Act Defines Framework for U.S. Internet of Things Policy
The Commerce Committee in the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the "Developing Innovation and Growing the Internet of Things (DIGIT) Act." The bi-partisan bill requires "the establishment of a working group tasked with identifying proposals meant to facilitate IoT growth." The bill follows up on a March 2015 resolution that called for a national Internet of Things strategy.
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MSDN/TechNet Being Replaced by Open Source Project docs.microsoft.com
After 15 years of running on a “brittle codebase with an archaic publishing and deployment system”, Microsoft has finally decided to retire MSDN and TechNet. The replacement will be an open source project known as docs.microsoft.com.