SD Times Issue 280

2012·6 MB·English

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Contents
ISSUE 280 • AUGUST 2012
FROM THE EDITORS SPECIAL REPORT
9 Letters Tools for Scrum
11 Best practices for software security
11 DevOps is not merely vendor hype
NEWS
12 Google provides a taste of Jelly Bean and more page 41
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14 Hosted repositories a hot item in July
14 TeamForge puts Git, Subversion on equal footing
page 24
16 MicroXML: The future of XML?
Silverlight: Does the new path
18 Eclipse Juno brings customization
lead to the end of the road?
19 Project Jigsaw put on Java’s back burner
21 SAFECode guides agile developers in security
21 SlickEdit updates namesake code editor
22 Telerik Kendo UI: New tablet support and
server wrappers
COLUMNS page 31
57 CODE WATCHby Larry O’Brien iOS 6: It’s all about the experience
Learning machine learning
59 ANALYST VIEWby Michael Azoff
APM’s versatility is getting notice
61 GUEST VIEWby Dave West
Developer populism is changing ALM
62 INDUSTRY WATCHby David Rubinstein
Seeds yield fruit for GrapeCity page 50
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OPINION
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www.sdtimes.com August2012 SD Times
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Carriers share tinyurl.com/826qffm. For background, missing a lot of the opportunity APM
here is a comprehensive update from offers.
the blame for
Cisco outlining the changes we have At the least, you must stay in touch
made to address our customers’ con- with your trusted vendor(s) to ensure
mobile data
cerns: tinyurl.com/759zcwb. that your strategic priorities are proper-
I mostly agree with your article (“Per- David McCulloch ly met. Track the terms of that fulfill-
sonal technology sucks: A rant,” June Cisco ment as your organization’s priorities
2012, p. 67) apart from two points: 1) evolve, your vendors update, and new
It’s not Apple’s fault that everyone is Clarifying REST developments and practices appear in
copying them rather than inventing the wider APM marketplace.
their own technology (although Micro - Re: “Developer Populism is changing Tom McKeown
soft is now doing some interesting the face of ALM,” p. 61, on “open stan- United States
things). 2) The issue of sharing data is dards,” I might clarify that REST is
the carriers’ fault here in the U.S., not really just an architectural style, and Learning through
the phone manufacturers. Almost all just doing REST does not just give you
SpaceChem
handsets are capable of being fast Wi- integration. OSLC actually defines
Fi hotspots, you just have to pay (extra) implementable specifications based on
Re: “The Trouble with Gerrold: Les-
for the privilege of sending data you REST-style and Linked Data architec-
sons from programming languages,”
have already paid for onto another ture, and defining vocabularies for vari-
sdt.bz/36774, for a look at a beautiful
device, and most people object to the ous ALM resource types.
example of a visual programming lan-
user fee. Steve Speicher
guage, take a look at the game
Piers Denney OSLC
SpaceChem. And I am suddenly
United States
reminded of programming a mass spec-
A fix for Cisco Who to trust trometer interface using LabVIEW
many years ago.
I wanted to ensure your readers knew for APM
John Bushnell
that Cisco has taken multiple steps to
United States
address the issues you Re: “APM’s versatility is getting notice,”
describe (re: “Zeichick’s Take: Undesir- p. 59, this means that you’ll have to be
able consequences of automatic actively engaged with APM for some
What do you think?
firmware updates,” sdt.bz/36780) since time to come. APM is not a discrete, Letters to SD Times should include the
Joel Hruska wrote his story for localized purchase in the way, say, DNS writer’s name, company affiliation and
ExtremeTech. In fact, Joel updated or firewalling can be; to sign with a ven- contact information. Letters become the
his own story to reflect what Cisco dor and assume it will take care of all property of BZ Media and may be edited.
has done. You can read it here: your APM needs puts you at risk of Send to [email protected].
ON THE WEB www.sdtimes.com
>How much trouble can happen in one latest entry, she goes over some of the fears developers have
second? in the fight between big companies. You can read about it and
more at www.sdtimes.com/blog/2047.
According to Alex Handy, a lot. One measly second was added
at the end of June 30, and this led to some prob- >Robots and computers and AI, oh my!
lems for Linux users. A fix was found, but develop-
David Gerrold has a list of the 50 best robots and computers in
ers aren’t satisfied yet. This small problem is gar-
science fiction. Collated chronologically, this list cap-
nering some surprising attention. Read more at
tures the scary ones, the funny ones, the happy
www.sdtimes.com/blog/2045.
ones and the just plain weird ones. The list is in no
particular order, but you just might find your
>Lisa Morgan covers the patent wars
favorite electric-powered character there. Do
Should you be scared of patent fights? Lisa Morgan has been you think anyone was left out? See for your-
keeping track of this issue on her blog at SDTimes.com. In her self at sdt.bz/36816.
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