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5 pioneering paths for software development's new frontier
05/13/2013 -  Modern software development requires a nimble approach -- which means mixing methodologies and hiring cross-functional coders, for a start. Find out how forward-thinking developers are beating out the old-guard in emerging app markets.
Serdar Yegulalp, InfoWorld

The 14 characters you meet as a coder
05/09/2013 -  Are you a Developer Diva? Perhaps a Holy Priest of technology? Or maybe you're the Hipster Hacker from Hell? See if you can spot your own worst enemy in any of these 14 software developer personality archetypes.
Andrew C. Oliver, InfoWorld

Open source Java projects: Akka
05/08/2013 -  Get started with Akka, a JVM-based toolkit and runtime that implements the actor model message-passing paradigm. In this installment of Open source Java projects, Steven Haines presents a simple program that showcases the Akka message passing system, then develops a more complex program using concurrent processes to compute prime numbers.
Steven Haines, JavaWorld.com

Amazon adds to developer choices with JavaScript SDK for Web Services
05/07/2013 -  The SDK for Node.js can be used to build fast and scalable network applications for Amazon's cloud.
Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Service

Mobile strategy? You need a business strategy
05/06/2013 -  Mobile technology is an enabler, not a goal. Start with your business goals and then see where mobile helps them.
Brian Katz, InfoWorld

CIOs like big data, just not in the cloud
05/04/2013 -  Although cloud providers like Amazon are linking big data with the public cloud, enterprises rightfully don't see it that way -- not yet.
David Linthicum, InfoWorld

Big movies, big data: Netflix embraces NoSQL in the cloud
05/02/2013 -  With billions of reads and writes daily, Netflix relies on NoSQL database Cassandra to replace a legacy Oracle deployment.
Andrew Lampitt , InfoWorld

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