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• Where's My Jetpack?
  "Rather than progressing toward ever-increasing levels of abstraction, two simple trends have driven the evolution of software development tools: integration at the source-code level and a focus on quality."
  (tags: IEEE software development tools)
• Open Source Asset Repositories – The Enterprise Architecture Network | Google Groups
  Open Source Asset Repositories
  (tags: opensource asset repositories)
• IEEE Software Special Issue: Domain-Specific Languages & Modeling – IEEE Software Special Issue: Domain-Specific Languages & Modeling
  IEEE Software seeks submissions for a special issue on Domain-Specific Languages and Modeling (DSL&M).
  (tags: IEEE DSL MDD DSM)
• In acquiring Merrill Lynch, must Bank of America open source its software? | The Open Road – The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay – CNET News
  "what will happen to the open-source software that they have heavily modified and upon which many have built core business applications?"
  (tags: opensource adquisitions)

• IBM developerWorks : Blogs : Tooling platforms and RESTful ramblings
  Simon shares some Jazz REST Services (JRS) introduction slides
  (tags: IBM Rational Jazz JRS rest)
• CA, IBM First to Demonstrate CMDB Federation, Interoperability
  CA and IBM announced the ability to share information between their respective configuration management databases (CMDBs)
  (tags: CA IBM CMDB ITIL)
• InfoQ: Microsoft Joins the OMG: UML or DSL?
  Microsoft joins the OMG (Oh My Good! or Object Management Group, depending on who reads the acronym)
  (tags: microsoft OMG UML MDD DSL)
• Mike Walker's Ramblings about Industry Architecture : Oslo – a tool, a language, a repository
  Microsoft Oslo preview: a tool to interact with models, a tool to create DSLs and a relational repository
  (tags: microsoft oslo tools DSL MDD)
• IBM developerWorks : Blogs : Agility@Scale: Strategies for Scaling Agile Software Development
  some disciplined agile strategies to succeed at large-team agile
  (tags: agile enterprise bestpractices)
• How Hard Could It Be?: How I Learned to Love Middle Managers — Fog Creek Software — Small Business Advice
  A history about middle management
  (tags: software development Management)
• Home Page for 97 Things [97 Things] : Near-Time
  97 great axioms for software architects which will be published by O'Reilly in a book, 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
  (tags: architecture software development bestpractices)

• InfoQ: Beginner's Mind – An Approach to Listening
  "Once we enter the Expert Mind trap we think we know everything and are no longer open to learning new things."
  (tags: learning listening mind)
• NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta Information
  The NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta release
  (tags: software development IDE tools netbeans)
• DSL and MDE, necessary assets for Model-Driven approaches
  "think MDA should be enriched to what I define as MDE. In that case MDE and DSL's are complementary and necessary for a model-driven approach."
  (tags: MDD MDA DSL)
• Oracle Removes Licensing for Workshop Eclipse Plug-ins | Eclipse Zone
  Oracle is delivering the Eclipse tools for Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3 with a simpler packaging and free.
  (tags: software development oracle weblogic eclipse tools)
• Useful Measurements for Application Portfolio Management at Mainframe Executive
  "The power of APM tools comes from showing individual aspects of applications and correlating these with business measurements."
  (tags: APM tools metrics)
• Adding Simplicity – An Engineering Mantra: Availability Enlightenment
  "Everything breaks, regularly. With that as a baseline, now you can design your system to compensate for failures. Through this approach you can achieve new levels of availability."
  (tags: architecture Design failure availability)
• STSC CrossTalk – Good Old Advice – Aug 2008
  "Do not believe in any single process or methodology because each works only in a particular and limited context."
  (tags: software development methodology process)
• visualvm: Home
  VisualVM is a free opensource visual tool integrating several commandline JDK tools and lightweight performance and memory profiling capabilities.
  (tags: java performance profiling opensource)
• Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP
  XMPP PubSub slides
  (tags: rest xmpp pubsub presentations)
• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  "This is a dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypal problems, and related definitions."
  (tags: software development algorithms)
• ongoing · REST Questions
  Tim Bray on Rest
  (tags: rest timbray)
• IBM – Jazz Analyst Reports
  "Ms. Barnett positions the Jazz initiative within the software development landscape; shares best practices learned from early technology adopters, and identifies key benefits for practitioners, project managers and CIOs."
  (tags: IBM Rational jazz)

• …about software development: MDSD and DSLs
  "They argue that with models and code generation everything gets automated and forget that especially modeling in a graphical tool takes more time than writing the same information into a text document."
  (tags: MDD DSL MDA code-generation)
• Fundamentals of Software Architecture
  Fundamentals of Software Architecture MindMap
  (tags: software architecture mindmap)
• 2008 Tribalization Of Business Study
  TRIBALIZATION OF BUSINESS STUDY: How to Achieve Transformational Change through Communities and Social Networks
  (tags: enterprise2.0 presentations study)
• InfoQ: Best Practices for Model-Driven Software Development
  MDSD best practices
  (tags: MDD DSM bestpractices)
• IBM developerWorks : Blogs : Managing the data lifecycle: from design to deletion
  Curt Cotner explains why he believes Data Studio is not like AD/Cycle
  (tags: IBM DataStudio AD/Cycle)
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Our Titles
  The Pragmatic Programmers screencasts
  (tags: software development screencast pragmaticprogrammers)

• Micro Focus – Rehosting PL/I Applications on Open Systems – Open PL/I
  “Open PL/I is a robust and flexible development system for PL/I applications. Open PL/I is the only proven multi-platform Linux, UNIX and Windows PL/I solution in the marketplace today”
  (tags: languages PL/I)
• Assessing the Age of Software Languages and Tools
  “External indicators help signal the vitality of legacy computer languages and tool software. Common languages are assessed for their stage in life. Tactics and strategies are suggested for assessments and management to help reduce the risks and life cycl
  (tags: legacy languages vitality risk gartner)
• Open Source Trends Survey 2008
  “In terms of the motivations driving open source adoption, price is the No. 1 factor motivating the customers of 79% of survey responders. Reduced lock-in/access to the source code motivated 60% of the survey participants’ customers. Customizability was
  (tags: opensource survey adoption)
• ongoing · No Secret Software!
  “Christine Peterson offered the most important message I heard at OSCON: when data is gathered and used for the people as part of civic processes (voting is a good example), processing it using secret software, especially if it’s a private-sector secret
  (tags: open software)
• Medical catalog of project management patterns – AC
  “It is difficult to identify and locate the pattern that you need. This paper presents a locating scheme based on sensations and symptoms that cause you to look for a pattern. It is tried with project management patterns because they carry symptoms and se
  (tags: projectmanagement patterns)
• FLOSS homepage
  “this project aims to remedy this situation by identifying and developing indicators of such activity through a case study of OS/FS: Open Source/Free Software. “
  (tags: opensource research europe)

• Five Web 2.0 app dev lessons for enterprise IT
  “Quick, incremental updates, along with heavy user involvement, are key characteristics of an emerging software development paradigm championed by a new generation of Web 2.0 start-ups.”
  (tags: software development enterprise web2.0 agile)
• Transactions: Build Scalable Systems That Handle Failure Without Losing Data
  “When working on a large-scale distributed system, my team found out that developing robust systems that handle failure scenarios without losing data is far from trivial.”
  (tags: architecture messaging scaling distributed MSDN)
• Code Generation 2008 – Speaker Slides
  Code Generation 2008 – Speaker Slides
  (tags: MDD DSM DSL MDA)
• We Don’t Need No Architects
  “The role of an architect in software development has come under attack of late”
  (tags: enterprise architecture MSDN)
• Effective RESTful services.pdf (application/pdf Objeto)
  Do’s and Don’ts for building great RESTful services
  (tags: rest presentations)
• JOT: Journal of Object Technology – The Legacy and Liability of Object Technology The Dark Side of OO, Dave Thomas
  “Legacy refactoring is an important constructive intervention but it can often take 3 – 4 months with a top notch team to make a significant progress on a code mountain.”
  (tags: software development legacy code OO)

• Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.
  (tags: scalability architecture presentations)
• Perspectives – Flickr DB Architecture
  (tags: scalability architecture presentations)

• The highs and lows of former-Borland’s Dumbledore | The Register
  “Such was the pressure Eclipse exerted on licensing and innovation from tools vendors like Borland that even this company, with its hugely popular JBuilder and technology heritage, was looking to get out of the game by spinning out its IDE products as a s
  (tags: IDE Borland eclipse tools)
• Borland sets ALM rollout with three tools | InfoWorld | News | 2008-07-13 | By Paul Krill
  “BMS offerings are built on the Open ALM services framework that uses Internet-based technologies to connect Borland’s and other industry tools for project and portfolio management, requirements definition, and management, software configuration, change m
  (tags: Borland ALM IDE integration)
• Repository Directions – Part 1
  “The 1980s can be truly looked upon as the beginnings of repository implementations.”
  (tags: software development repositories history)
• scottberkun.com » Why project managers get no respect
  “The result is that most of the world thinks of project management as BORING.”
  (tags: projectmanagement career)

• Aligning IT & Business: Using Application Portfolio Management at Mainframe Executive
  “Of course, implementing APM doesn’t generate its potential benefits straight out of the box. APM is as much a question of culture as technology.”
  (tags: application portfolio management)
• Erlang, or Utility-computing vs. Appliance-computing « X marks reality
  “but most people who were brilliant in architecting systems only 10 to 15 years ago really suck at architecting systems for the globalized now, where everything has become bigger, faster and cheaper”
  (tags: architecture cloud computing distributed concurrency scalability erlang)
• Slashdot | Same Dev Tools/Language/Framework For Everyone?
  Nice question. Where do you want to innovate? on the technical side, or on the businesses side?
  (tags: software development strategies tools languages frameworks)
• Big Iron–IBM v PSI: The Operation Was a Success, But the Patient Died
  (tags: IBM mainframe)
• FVE Solutions: Spanish Software Development Group
  FVE Project Manager is a modified version of dotProject which extends its functionalities (principally EPF importer and Subversion).
  (tags: projectmanagement dotproject)
• Ceteri: a methodology for cloud computing architecture
  Cloud computing vendor landscape
  (tags: cloud computing)
• Programming and politics: Eclipse Day 2008
  Eclipse at eBay
  (tags: eclipse ebay presentations)
• Encountering OSGi | CIBER Knowledge
  OSGi guide
  (tags: architecture osgi history)
• BuildProcess, a complete J2EE deployment toolbox
  BuildProcess is a set of tools designed to automatic perform J2EE tasks
  (tags: automation build deployment j2ee opensource tools)
• Download details: Tools for Agility
  Kent Beck shares his thoughts on how tools have evolved in supporting agile software development.
  (tags: development tools agile kentbeck whitepaper)