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Git and Eclipse for better Source Code Management

Intland Blog - Thu, 04/04/2013 - 15:00
This is a recording of the webinar – Git and Eclipse for better Source Code Management.

Even in small software development projects, the use of version control is good practice and sometimes even mandatory.
The decentralized VCS Git is rapidly gaining popularity, especially in development teams that are scattered across different locations or even across the globe.
Eclipse is a very popular integrated development environment used by millions of developers.

The webinar will give an introduction to Git and Eclipse and highlight their advantages. The live presentation will demonstrate how to set up a Git repository and an Eclipse project and how to integrate them into an Application Lifecycle Management System.

In this webinar you will learn:
  • Basics in Git and Eclipse
  • Setup and manage a Git repository
  • Working with Eclipse and Mylin
  • Establishing traceability to other work artifacts
  • Increase code quality by creating quality gates


Contact us for your very own free webinar on Agile Portfolio Management!
Categories: Vendor

Telerik and Nokia to Host First-Annual Boston Hackathon

Telerik Company News - Thu, 04/04/2013 - 14:14

Close to 300 developers will gather to learn about the latest in Windows Phone application development


Waltham, MA – April 3, 2013 – Telerik, the end-to-end provider of software development, lifecycle and content management tools and solutions, is announcing today the first-annual Boston Hackathon, taking place April 13-14, held by Telerik and sponsored by Nokia Developer. To register, please go to http://thebostonhackathon.eventbrite.com/.

Telerik and Nokia will welcome developers to the two-day event to learn how to write amazing Windows Phone Apps and compete for great prizes. Sessions will be led by Lance McCarthy, Nokia Ambassador and Telerik XAML Support Specialist. He will guide developers through the new and exciting Windows Phone 8 APIs on day one and host the hackathon on day two. Together, Telerik and Nokia will help attendees achieve new levels in Windows Phone development.

  • What: The first-annual Boston Hackathon, held by Telerik and sponsored by Nokia
  • When: April 13-14, 2013, 9:00am-5:00pm ET
  • Where: Microsoft Technology Center, One Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142
  • Who: Close to 300 developers ranging from students to professional developer shops, from across the country

Telerik now offers more than 45+ components, 50+ design templates and a wide range of capabilities to complement the stock UI Toolbox available for Windows Phone Apps. Telerik’s RadControls for Windows Phone enables developers to engage in a meaningful way with end-users, earn more ratings and ultimately achieve better app rankings in the marketplace. Nokia Developer arms developers with tools and resources to bring their app ideas to life.

To join this must-attend event, please register today at http://thebostonhackathon.eventbrite.com/.

About Telerik
Telerik is a market-leading provider of end-to-end solutions for application development, automated testing, agile project management, reporting, and content management across all major Microsoft development platforms. Telerik’s award-winning software development products enable enterprises and organizations of every size to generate tangible productivity gains, reduce time-to-market, and stay on time and under budget. With tens of thousands of users in more than 90 countries around the world, Telerik’s customers include numerous Fortune 2000 companies, academic institutions, governments, and non-profit organizations. For additional information about Telerik, please visit www.telerik.com or follow @telerik on Twitter.

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Press Contacts:

Carmen Hughes
Ignite Public Relations
Tel: 650.227.3280 #101

carmen@ignitepr.com

Erica Burns
Telerik, Inc.
Tel: 888.365.2779 #154
Erica.Burns@telerik.com

Categories: RIA, Vendor

Aon eSolutions Drives Global Growth with the Oracle Database Appliance

Oracle Database News - Thu, 04/04/2013 - 13:02
Technology Consultancy Reduced Its Database Capital Expenditures By 80 Percent and Its Data Center Footprint by 70 Percent; System Deployed in a Single Day /us/corporate/press/1930250 en
Categories: Database, Vendor

Free WebLoadUI Tool Released by SmartBear

Software Development Tools Directory - Thu, 04/04/2013 - 12:51
SmartBear Software has just released WebLoadUI. Offering a range of features typically found only in costly tools and sporting a user interface that is intuitive and easy–to-use, the free performance, stress and load testing tool offers the ...
Categories: Vendor

Agile Software Development Processes – Join our Intland TechDay on April 23!

Intland Blog - Thu, 04/04/2013 - 12:11
Für unseren nächsten TechDay haben wir die aktuellen „hot spots“ rund um

„Agile Software Development Processes“

auf die Agenda gesetzt:

Eine Vortragsrunde zur Einführung in das Scrum Framework, bei der vorgestellt wird, welche 10 Praktiken helfen, Scrum wirklich gut zu machen und wie Sie anschließend mit einem Scaled Agile Framework Agilität skalieren und erfolgreich in allen Ebenen des Unternehmens einführen.

In einer LiveDemo stellen wir Ihnen die neuesten Features von codeBeamer 7.x zum agilen Projektmanagement vor – mit Scrum, Kanban, Release und Sprint Planning sowie Requirements und Test Management.

Der Erfahrungsbericht unseres Kunden Lufthansa Systems fokussiert das Ganzheitliche Application Lifecycle Management EMMA – powered by codeBeamer.

Wie Sie Mehr Output durch weniger Input mit einer effizienteren Projektsteuerung durch quantitatives Management und agile Entwicklung erreichen, wird in der folgenden Präsentation aufgezeigt.

In der anschließenden Meet-the-Expert-Runde gehen wir auf Fragen zur Zertifizierung, den Einsatz im regulatorischen Umfeld, Anpassungen und neue Integrationsmöglichkeiten durch REST API ein.

Melden Sie sich rechtzeitig zum kostenfreien Intland TechDay an!

Wir freuen uns, Sie am 23. April bei uns in Stuttgart zu begrĂĽĂźen!

Wenn Sie vorab Fragen zur agilen Software Entwicklung mit code Beamer haben, kontaktieren Sie uns – wir unterstĂĽtzen Sie gerne!
Categories: Vendor

EZShellExtensionsMFC v2013 Enabled Rapid Development Of Windows, IE and Active Directory Shell Extensions in MFC/ATL/C++.

Software Development Tools Directory - Thu, 04/04/2013 - 10:57
LogicNP Software has released EZShellExtensionsMFC 2013 which brings fast and painless development in MFC, ATL and C++ of any kind of Windows shell extensions including context menu extensions, property sheet extensions, infotip extensions, thumb ...
Categories: Vendor

Swiss Requirements Day am 19. Juni 2013 in ZĂĽrich

Intland Blog - Thu, 04/04/2013 - 09:00




Besuchen Sie uns auf dem Swiss Requirements Day in ZĂĽrich!

Sie finden umfassende Informationen ĂĽber codeBeamer ALM mit den Modulen Requirements Management, Test Management und Source Code Management.

codeBeamer unterstĂĽtzt den agilen Entwicklungsprozess von der Anforderungsdefintion ĂĽber Tests bis hin zum Release auf einer einzigen, web-basierten Plattform.
Anforderungen können elektronisch verwaltet, unabhängig voneinander bearbeitet und mit Tests oder Source Code verknüpft und z.B. als Lasten- bzw. Pflichtenheft oder auch als User Stories im Backlog angelegt werden.
Agiles Entwickeln wird dank Scrum UnterstĂĽtzung und integriertem Kanban Board wesentlich vereinfacht und komfortabler.

Überzeugen Sie sich in LiveDemos von den Anwendungsszenarien mit codeBeamer zum Optimieren Ihrer Software Entwicklungsprozesse.

Profitieren Sie von unserem Promo-Code Promo_Intland, und sparen Sie 60.- CHF bei Ihrer Registrierung bis zum 31. Mai. Wie im vergangenen Jahr, werden bei der Veranstaltung mehr als 600 Teilnehmer erwartet.

Haben Sie Fragen? Wir unterstĂĽtzen Sie gerne – kontaktieren Sie uns!

Categories: Vendor

Appcelerator Platform Pricing Updates

Appcelerator - Thu, 04/04/2013 - 00:31

I am personally committed to openness and transparency regarding our pricing and licensing. When I announced the new Appcelerator Platform last week, I mentioned that I was going to follow-up to provide you with details about the changes that we are making to our Plans & Pricing. As I’ve said before, we care deeply about providing you with outstanding value and high quality products at competitive prices. This has been our commitment from the day Nolan and I started this company. One of our core company values is to “Enable Customer Success,” and we are honored each and every day to empower you to deliver transformative mobile experiences to the world.

To be clear, Titanium will continue to be free and has no commercial restrictions. For our free “Explore” package, we significantly boosted the monthly allotments of Cloud Services and Analytics recently in order to give the majority of our developers a free “all-you-can-eat” offering for their mobile apps. We created this strategy to better serve the needs of our community, and the feedback we received was extremely positive. Recently, we also posted answers to some of the more common billing and usage questions.

With regards to the Appcelerator Platform, we’re focused on the specific needs of mobile enterprises. As you are well aware, mobile is exploding and disrupting everything. We have seen increasing demands from Mobile First enterprises for specific requirements across the entire mobile application lifecycle as they scale from 10s to 100s of apps (and beyond). The Appcelerator Platform provides a commercial solution for the entire mobile lifecycle, with commercial support, SLAs and technical training. This offering includes Appcelerator Studio, Appcelerator Alloy, Appcelerator Cloud, Appcelerator Test, Appcelerator Analytics, and Appcelerator Performance Management – all under a single, newly branded SaaS offering called the Appcelerator Platform. This solution serves the specific needs of enterprises that require a comprehensive platform for the entire mobile lifecycle - from ideation and design-driven development, to continuous delivery, to experience-driven analytics. We'll also offer enterprise-class flexibility in the delivery of the solution both as a public cloud and virtual private cloud along with varying levels of guaranteed availability (SLAs).

The Appcelerator Platform is powered by Titanium. In other words, we can’t have the Appcelerator Platform without a strong, successful Titanium product and community behind it. We will continue to invest in it, and there will always be a free / open source version of Titanium. This truth is very important to me, so I would appreciate it if you would take the time to read my blog post from last week where I wrote in detail about our commitment to open source.

Appcelerator Platform Pricing

The pricing model we are using with the Appcelerator Platform is designed to be simple, scalable, and value-driven.

  • We've created a new pricing model that includes unlimited mobile applications. In short, our new pricing model is no longer licensed by number of applications.
    • Platform customers can build, deploy and manage as many apps as they like, whether they are transient or long-term; B2B, B2C or B2E apps.
    • The primary attributes are the number of platform users and the number of unique test devices.
      • A user is any named user with a username and password who accesses the platform - including designers, developers, testers, release managers, project managers, DevOps personnel, managers, executives and Line of Business owners.
      • The test device license typically represents the different kinds of mobile devices and OSs being tested.
      • Note that end users of the deployed mobile apps are NOT considered users in this case.
      • The starting price for the platform is $999 per named user/month, and includes:
        • The base foundation of the platform,
        • Up to 10 million push notifications and API calls per month,
        • 100GB of storage per month,
        • 5 test devices, as well as
        • Annual subscription with a minimum of 5 users.
        • The price of the platform scales linearly from there at $250/user/month for each additional user or test device.

What Happens to the Standard, Enhanced and Premium Packages?

With this new platform and pricing model, we’re now also retiring the three packages known as “Standard”, “Enhanced” and “Premium" all of which were licensed by application. If you are one of the commercial customers already on one of these packages, we'll continue to honor your existing subscription until the end of your term. At that point, our corporate sales team will work with you on an upgrade path to the Appcelerator platform.

To be clear, the free “Explore” package with the above-mentioned usage-level increases and existing licensing terms will remain unchanged to allow the continued use and adoption by our developers who are the engine that fuel the mobile revolution.

As mentioned in the ACS billing and usage questions, we'll also provide an upgrade path to the Appcelerator Platform should you outgrow the Explore package.

Thank You!

2013 promises to be another landmark year for all of us – our developers, customers, partners and Appcelerator. We’re excited about the opportunity ahead, and are looking forward to doing some really big things together! Thank you again and let us know your feedback in the comments below. For pricing questions, please contact us here.

Categories: Vendor

MuleSoft Announces New Anypoint Integration Platform

Software Development Tools Directory - Wed, 04/03/2013 - 18:19
MuleSoft unveiled its new Anypoint™ Platform, realizing its vision for the New Enterprise with the easiest and most complete way to connect any application, any data source and any API, across the entire cloud and on-premise continuum. Comp ...
Categories: Vendor

Riverbed Unveils Unified Application Performance Management Suite

Software Development Tools Directory - Wed, 04/03/2013 - 18:06
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the application performance company, today announced the availability of Riverbed® OPNET AppInternals Xpert® 8.5, a unified application performance management (APM) suite that provides deep visibility i ...
Categories: Vendor

Sauce Labs Teams With Internet Explorer to Create Automated Testing Tools for Developers on modern.IE

Software Development Tools Directory - Wed, 04/03/2013 - 18:01
Sauce Labs today announced they are providing automated testing for Internet Explorer's modern.IE update. The service adds Sauce Labs' cross-browser testing cloud to bring dynamic code-scanning to modern.IE, a newly launched scanner for c ...
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GenieDB Provides Multi-Region Distribution of MySQL in the Cloud

Software Development Tools Directory - Wed, 04/03/2013 - 16:08
GenieDB, Inc., a leading innovator of distributed relational database technology, today announced availability of its "Worldwide Database" in the Rackspace Cloud Tools Marketplace. GenieDB works alongside standard MySQL to provide a cloud-enabled ...
Categories: Vendor

Oracle Storage Delivers Superior Performance, Database Integration and Faster Data Access for

Oracle Database News - Wed, 04/03/2013 - 13:01
Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Eclipses the Competition with High Throughput Storage Engineered for Oracle Enterprise Applications /us/corporate/press/1927912 en
Categories: Database, Vendor

OpenBI and Actian Partner to Bring Enhanced Big Data, Analytics and Business Intelligence Capabilities to Customers

Actian Corporation (Ingres) Press Releases - Wed, 04/03/2013 - 00:17

Redwood City, Calif. – April 2, 2013 - Actian Corp. (“Actian”), a leader in next generation big data management and creator of the analytic database Vectorwise, today announced that they are partnering with analytics consultancy OpenBI, LLC around its innovative Vectorwise analytic database. OpenBI is professional services firm focused on helping organizations extract maximum value from their growing data assets by utilizing expertise in big data architecture, advanced analytics and best-practice business intelligence system design and deployment. The relationship with Actian will allow OpenBI’s customers to capitalize on Vectorwise’s disruptive combination of high-performance and affordability to drive unprecedented new business value at a fraction of the cost of other leading solutions.

With its ability to analyze and report on large and complex data, Vectorwise is a perfect complement to OpenBI’s big data and analytics service offerings. “Adding Actian Vectorwise to our portfolio of technologies provides strategic benefits to both OpenBI and our customers,” said Steve Miller, co-founder and President of OpenBI. “With Vectorwise, users are able to access information at the speed of thought in order to improve business decisions with real-time data.”

OpenBI sought a high performance analytical database capable of serving business users with rapid-fire analytic queries. To meet these needs, OpenBI turned to Vectorwise because of its consistently-outstanding performance, scalability and low overall cost. Additionally, OpenBI has been able to deploy Vectorwise behind a number of analytical applications with little configuration or preparation. This compatibility with front-end technologies makes it a preferred choice.

edo Interactive, a credit and debit card reward company and OpenBI customer, has already seen the benefits of Vectorwise for its business. “OpenBI knew the market and was able to advise us on the best tools for our problem, which included Actian Vectorwise,” said Tim Garnto, vice president of product engineering at edo Interactive. “Vectorwise is faster than what we’ve seen from other engines and has strong SQL support,” added OpenBI partner Kevin Haas, who worked on the edo project. “With Vectorwise, OpenBI was able to provide the edo Interactive team with rapid access to data along with support for analytic queries that they were unable to experience before.”

“OpenBI continues to expand its expertise in the big data ecosystem and is ready to meet the needs of businesses for both the innovative tools to analyze growing volumes of data and the expert insights to help businesses prosper,” says Fred Gallagher general manager, Vectorwise at Actian Corporation. “We are happy to welcome OpenBI to our roster of BI and analytic partners that support Vectorwise.”

With more than 10,000 customers worldwide, Actian is a leader in helping companies analyze big data in industries ranging from retail, ecommerce, healthcare, manufacturing, finance and social media.

About Actian: Take Action on Big Data
Actian Corporation enables organizations to transform big data into business value with data management solutions to transact, analyze, and take automated action across their business operations. Actian helps 10,000 customers worldwide take action on their big data with Action Apps, Vectorwise the analytic database, Ingres an independent mission-critical OLTP database, and Versant object-oriented databases. Actian is headquartered in California with offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Amsterdam and Melbourne. Stay connected with Actian Corporation on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Actian, Action Apps, Ingres, Vectorwise and Versant are trademarks of Actian Corporation. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

About OpenBI
Headquartered in Chicago, OpenBI is an experienced professional services firm committed to the data-driven enterprise. Our transformative services combine architecture and implementation expertise in big data, advanced analytics and business intelligence. Clients benefit from OpenBI's real-world expertise in the Hadoop ecosystem, analytic databases, BI platforms and statistics/machine learning. The OpenBI team delivers open-architected data integration and BI technology solutions while assisting data scientists with agile intelligence and advanced analytics. OpenBI customers see us as innovative and pragmatic – delivering top-tier intelligence solutions efficiently and economically. For more information, visit www.openbi.com.

Categories: Database, Vendor

Twisted

Software Development Tools Directory - Tue, 04/02/2013 - 15:45
Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python and licensed under the open source MIT license.
Categories: Vendor

CodernityDB

Software Development Tools Directory - Tue, 04/02/2013 - 15:40
CodernityDB is opensource, pure Python (no 3rd party dependency), fast (even 100 000 insert and more than 100 000 get operations per second), multi platform, schema-less, NoSQL database
Categories: Vendor

Distributed Load Testing with MSysÂ’ PurpleStrike Real Time Load Tester

Software Development Tools Directory - Tue, 04/02/2013 - 15:27
Distributed Load Testing Made Easy for a Leading Global Provider of Virtualization Solutions with MSys’ PurpleStrike Real Time (PSRT) Load Tester. MSys, a leading provider of cost-effective test automation solutions and a registered techni ...
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EZShellExtensions.Net

Software Development Tools Directory - Tue, 04/02/2013 - 15:04
EZShellExtensions.Net enables rapid development of Windows shell extensions to .Net. EZShellExtensions.Net includes Visual Studio project and item wizards to jumpstart extension development.
Categories: Vendor