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 When you’re dealing with something as critical as your business infrastructure, you want to be sure that you’ll get what you signed up for. If a company promises something, and you promise your colleagues something based on it, you want it to happen. That’s where the service level agre...May. 14, 2013 01:21 PM EDT Reads: 752 |
 Welcome to Java Certification Path. If you are reading this article, it means that you are thinking or have decided to take Java Certification. Let me start off by congratulating you on this decision to boost your career strength.
To become a successful Java professional it is good to...May. 14, 2013 01:03 PM EDT Reads: 880 |
 We so often hear about companies putting "customers first" that the very notion can seem trite. But when it comes to innovation, listening to and learning from your customers is an absolute imperative. At Gazzang, the company I work for, we have a mantra that borders on religious fanat...May. 3, 2013 11:43 AM EDT Reads: 948 |
 It is not uncommon today to click an interesting link you see on Facebook only to be confronted by a "social loginwall". If you aren't familiar with that term it's probably because I just made it up to describe the use of CSS overlays to "hide" the content you want with a second overla...Apr. 9, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,970 |
 According to recently conducted research, organizations using ERP software solutions were receiving less than 50 percent of the benefits promised to them prior to implementation. Yet, the main reason for failure in most of these situations was attributed to poor software selection. Her...Apr. 5, 2013 01:16 PM EDT Reads: 919 |
 Having launched technology startups now for 10-plus years in Silicon Valley, I am asked by many entrepreneurs the same question over and over: Where, or rather, at what event should I launch my brainchild?
The goal for entrepreneurs is usually the same: to get media coverage and meet ...Apr. 2, 2013 01:05 PM EDT Reads: 939 |
 Welcome to Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia. Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.
A study conducted by ...Apr. 1, 2013 12:26 PM EDT Reads: 817 |
We’re now entering a world where cloud-managed big data is not just a topic of conversation in tech circles but a necessity for companies and service providers alike. Shifting data needs drive technological innovation. The truth is that as data gets bigger, older technology isn’t abl...Mar. 27, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,996 |
 Prototyper allows anyone, even with limited technical knowledge, to build a full prototype version of their app that can be tested and demoed without having to use provisioning, third-party installations, or the official app store environment. Converting existing mockups into functioni...Mar. 27, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,454 |
 It's interesting - and almost amusing - to watch the circle of technology run around best practices with respect to performance over time. Back in the day caching was the ultimate means by which web application performance was improved and there was no lack of solutions and techniques ...Mar. 27, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,314 |
 There is a certain amount of overhead associated with each sprint. Every sprint requires some initial planning time plus validation, regression testing and integration time and effort at the end. This overhead is proportional to the total size of the software and the level of automatio...Mar. 25, 2013 01:06 AM EDT Reads: 601 |
 As the Formula 1 Grand Prix season opened this weekend in Australia, Vodafone announced that it would be ending its sponsorship of the McLaren racing team at the end of the year, leaving McLaren with an annual $75 million hole in its budget for 2014 and onwards. But not for long, it se...Mar. 20, 2013 03:46 PM EDT Reads: 936 |
 How do you eat an elephant? Simple – cut it into small pieces at eat one piece at a time.
BUT…
…is it really that simple?
When you have a large software project it is too simplistic to assume that all you need to do is to decompose the problem to individual manageable chunk which ca...Mar. 19, 2013 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,090 |
 There's been a growing focus on scalability as the Internet of Things has continued its rapid growth. Perhaps due in part to large online failures during periodic or individual events, perhaps due in part to simple growth, the reason is less important than the reality that scalability ...Mar. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,790 |
 Here is a pretty common use case. You have an existing file server like windows 2003 or windows 2008 in the local office. Everyone in the local office is using a network share from the file server. There are some users from the branch office that may need to access the file server shar...Mar. 9, 2013 10:12 AM EST Reads: 1,540 |
 It is often the case that when you look at things a certain way, they become filtered over time, and you see what you expected to see. This happens to everyone, and while a wonderful adaptation to help handle all of the various inputs in our lives, has caused just about everyone to jum...Mar. 7, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,285 |
 The best way to do software development is to get hold of master programmers. Get them to form a self organizing team and do the development in short increments.
That is agile.
What happens if you cannot find sufficient number of master programmers?
Get as many master programmers as...Mar. 6, 2013 02:26 AM EST Reads: 832 |
 Have you ever been invited to present a product solution and within a few minutes the audience is thumbing on their mobile devices?
Have you ever presented to a remote audience and asked the end "any questions?" and there are none?
Here are some tips for giving a great demo. (Credit ...Feb. 28, 2013 02:53 PM EST Reads: 1,204 |
 Do you remember when computers were hard to use? In fact it’s just nine years since a GM press release asserted that if they developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars that for no reason at all, would crash twice a day, shut down.
Because of this great leap forw...Feb. 27, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,067 |
 Online advertising is a huge market and prodigious amounts of money are spent by companies to connect with customers. Where can, and do, approaches based on taxonomy plus semantics add value to this dance of moving (emotional and semantic) parts between the intentful consumer poised ...Feb. 26, 2013 11:23 AM EST Reads: 1,052 |
 Yesterday VCE and their proud parents announced revenues had reached an annual run rate of a billion dollars. Today VCE announced some new products along with enhancements to others.
Before going forward though, lets take go back for a moment to help set the stage to see where things ...Feb. 24, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,862 |
 There is a significant change in how software is developed over the last decade. Agile had been the buzzword over the last decade and probably is most significant of changes in software development to date. Now that the hype around Agile has been subsided, it is worth an effort to unde...Feb. 22, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,720 |
 Agile works!
If you have any doubt about it just look at the adoption rate … look at the study results published … or just try it yourself.
Offshoring also works!
Again, if you have any doubt, just look at the growth of offshoring … look at the success of the success of the India ba...Feb. 21, 2013 12:41 AM EST Reads: 1,306 |
 Quick: name some APIs! Which ones come to mind? Amazon? Twitter? Google Maps? Chances are, the APIs which came to mind are APIs which are open to any developer to use. But are these the only kinds of APIs that exist? What about Enterprise APIs?
In order to answer this question, let's ...Feb. 20, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,430 |
 I have a pretty decent amount of data about Disney World (where to stay, when to visit, how to beat the crowds to Space Mountain, etc…), and in turn, Disney knows a lot about me (my age, where I live, how many times I’ve visited the park, etc…).
This information may seem trivial, but ...Feb. 14, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,513 |
 Welcome to Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5. HTML5 is predicted to be the dominant development environment for enterprise mobility over the next several years. The questions are when and where should HTML5 be used today. In this weekly update on HTML5 we report on this ongoing d...Feb. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,442 |
 When conducting code reviews then you should determine if code reviews are just something you check off your list or have they actually gotten you closer to better quality code? Your motivations and attitudes towards code reviews can greatly affect their effectiveness.
When my son sta...Feb. 12, 2013 12:03 PM EST Reads: 728 |
 Tоday I was participating in a discussion on one Java forum – the question was if Java is easy or difficult programming language to learn. IMO, Java is not difficult to lear, to teach, and to use. It’s a strongly-typed compiled language with tools that help you out to identify most of ...Feb. 8, 2013 06:08 PM EST Reads: 2,772 |
 When I think about API Analytics, I like to think about the "Goldilocks Question". This question is "Who's been using my APIs?". One of the tests of an API Analytics solution is how easy it makes it to answer this question.
Let's look at these two scenarios. I've used a vehicle telema...Feb. 7, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,408 |
 About a year ago I wrote BYOD–The Hottest Trend or Just the Hottest Term just when #BYOD was burning up the #trendingtopics. Since then, BYOD has become one of the most talked about IT challenges and at the top of many enterprise initiates for 2013. Most industry pundits and analysts...Feb. 7, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,529 |
 The Agile Manifesto happens to be a unique piece of document. I cannot find any equivalent document in whole of software engineering history. Why only software engineering, I cannot think of any equivalent in any field of engineering.
Think of how it was developed. In February, 2001, ...Feb. 1, 2013 11:46 AM EST Reads: 1,051 |
 Despite the strained but slowly recovering economy, and thinly stretched job market, 2013 will the Year of the IT Professional. Niche specific acquaintance with frontend and digital skills are in the highest demand ever, opening up a wide array of lucrative opportunities for both entry...Jan. 25, 2013 02:36 PM EST Reads: 1,284 |
 If you are still asking the question should I build a mobile website or create an installable application for mobile…
…then you are asking the wrong question!
The Mobile Web vs. Mobile App debate is finally over.
It is no longer a question of either…or. Making your website mobile fr...Jan. 25, 2013 01:45 PM EST Reads: 1,796 |
 Yes … if you have a co-located cross-functional team … and … there is no pressure or compulsion to shift part of the work offshore.
Yes … if you do not feel any necessity or face any difficulty in scaling the team.
In all other cases offshore-agile may not be such a bad idea.
If you...Jan. 24, 2013 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,969 |
 If you take the literary meaning of the words off-shore and distributed then it would appear that off-shore is indeed a special case of distributed. But, if go by the de facto understanding then off-shoring is definitely not a special case of distributed software development.
Off-shor...Jan. 23, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,339 |
 The Java Designer’s general principle to architecting high scale or low scale application is choosing between EJB Centric Design (with EJB) or Web Centric Design (without EJB). OCE EJB Certification covers all design/developer knowledge required to implement Enterprise Java Bean Compo...Jan. 22, 2013 02:55 PM EST Reads: 1,427 |
 *&%#* The system is running slow again! Now what? Is there a space hog application sucking up all my resources? Did we just crash? No, must not say that word...must not say that word... ...still running, just sloooowly. I wonder if anything new has been installed… Nice if they told m...Jan. 22, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,110 |
 Before buying more storage space it's a good idea to make sure your existing space isn't filled with redundant or old data - or hundreds of downloaded cat videos.
Disk capacity is increasing and while prices continue to drop, those savings are offset by demands for new capacity to sto...Jan. 22, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,770 |
 Reactionary defenses cost an unreal amount of money for consumers, businesses, governments (both state and local), federal and military. You would think with all of this time and money spent on the various products billed as “protecting” you from cyber threats & intrusions, your enviro...Jan. 22, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,237 |
 Am I the only person who thinks that we need a clear, well understood and unambiguous determine if the development process that you are following can be classified as Agile development process?
Do you necessarily have to have a small, co-located, cross-functional team to be able to cl...Jan. 19, 2013 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,603 |
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