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In February this year the agile movement completed 11 years of existence. I am sure you are either using some form of agile methodology or examining the possibility of using them. But, are you aware of how the agile movement happened? Did it happen by chance or was it inevitable? Do you know what influenced the agile manifesto? Who the authors are? What are their backgrounds and what do they do now? How was the name “Agile” selected? The Influencers It is clear from the notes published by Jon Kern that four methodologies had significant influence on the manifesto – they are: Scrum (Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber – also Mike Beedle) DSDM (DSDM Consortium represented by Arie van Bennekum) ASD (Jim Highsmith) XP (Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham and Ron Jeffries – Martin Fowler) Prior to the meet all these methodologies were classified as “Lightweight Methodologies”. The mee... (more)

CloudBees Platform as a Service Now Available on HP Cloud Services

WOBURN, MA and PARIS -- (Marketwire) -- 05/10/12 -- CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, announced today the CloudBees PaaS is available on HP Cloud Services. CloudBees provides users the flexibility to deploy and manage applications across a variety of data center environments. HP Cloud Services is the newest addition to the list of CloudBees AnyCloud™ deployment options. Now, organizations that use the CloudBees PaaS and want to deploy on HP Cloud Services can do so while still realizing a consistent experience and unified view across all a... (more)

Jenkins CI and JFrog Announce Joint Artifact Repository Solution in the Cloud

PARIS -- (Marketwire) -- 04/17/12 -- Jenkins User Conference -- Jenkins, the world's most popular open source Continuous Integration server, and JFrog, the creator of Artifactory Binary Repository, announce the Jenkins CI Artifactory-Online repository service, a new joint collaboration around an advanced Artifact Repository solution for the Jenkins community. JFrog, the JavaOne 2011 Duke's Awards winner for Innovative Tool for Developers, has set up a new dedicated Artifactory Online instance for the Jenkins project. Artifactory Online, JFrog's SaaS solution, is a cloud-based ar... (more)

JetBrains Streamlines Profiling of Mission-Critical .NET Applications

JetBrains, creators of productivity-enhancing tools for software developers, on Tuesday announced the availability of a new major release of their .NET performance profiler, dotTrace Performance. This new release enables users to attach the profiler to running processes dynamically, in order to profile potential performance issues as they appear in production. dotTrace 5.0 Performance also improves its remote profiling technology, helping you discover performance bottlenecks on production servers without having to deploy an entire profiler infrastructure. This provides more oppo... (more)

m2e: Bringing Maven to Eclipse

I would like to introduce the m2e project, a project that combines the power of Maven with the usability of Eclipse. In this article, I'm going to talk about our plans for the m2e project: where it is today, and where we intend to take the project. M2e is more than just a Maven plugin for Eclipse. While that is certainly an important part of the m2e project, Sonatype has its eyes set on a much more audacious goal. We're using the m2e project as an effort to bring solid build automation to Eclipse by providing Maven as a solution for building Eclipse plugins and the Eclipse platfo... (more)