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As our tag line implies, we are all about software.

But what we believe in -- why we exist -- is because we believe software can be better.

Your business relies on files to operate. You need instant access to hundreds or thousands of files on a daily basis. You need snapshot-in-time history of all versions of a given file. You need an audit trail of who changed what and when. You need to share these files with your clients, your vendors, your potentials. You need to be notified instantly when they have made a new version of a file available. And you need the entire process to be intuitive, simple, and easy -- maybe even automatic.

This is where Circaware can help you and your business.

We offer Managed File Transfer services for companies large and small. Our products will make it very simple for you to upload, download, audit, rollback, secure, notate, organize, share, backup, and manage your files both internally and externally.

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Survey Confirms Scaling Agile Across The Organisation Is Still A Challenge

Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:20 AM | Craig Smith

Forrester have recently released the results of their November 2011 Global Agile Software Application Development Online Survey in a report entitled "Survey Results: How Agile Is Your Organization?" It contains a number of interesting findings around how organisations that have adopted Agile are dealing with their implementation. By Craig Smith

Is Beautiful Usable, or Is It the Other Way Around?

Saturday, May 19, 2012 01:32 AM | Abel Avram

A group of researchers from two European universities have evaluated if “what is beautiful is usable” is true in software, and they have concluded that “what is usable is beautiful.” By Abel Avram

Presentation: Machine Learning on Big Data for Personalized Internet Advertising

Friday, May 18, 2012 11:12 AM | Michael Recce

Michael Recce discusses how advertising works and what algorithms Quantcast uses to analyze large amounts of data in order to find out what people are interested in. By Michael Recce

Presentation: Objects, Anomalies, and Actors: The Next Revolution

Friday, May 18, 2012 10:10 AM | Steve Vinoski

Steve Vinoski believes that actor-oriented languages such as Erlang are better prepared for the challenges of the future: cloud, multicore, high availability and fault tolerance. By Steve Vinoski

How to prioritize tasks based on their value

Friday, May 18, 2012 05:44 AM | Marta Jasinska

Bob Marshall in his new blog post, "The Value", summarises his research on different methods of prioritisation. Together with Grant Rule he developed a new way of understanding team and company goals. By Marta Jasinska

Do Software Engineers Need a Degree in Computer Science?

Friday, May 18, 2012 05:30 AM | Michael Stal

The role of a software Engineer” does not necessarily require a degree in Computer Science. In his article for Dr. Dobb’s, “Software Engineers All!” Andrew Binstock discusses whether software engineers really require a degree in computer science to perform an excellent job. By Michael Stal

Interview: Trisha Gee from LMAX Discusses Concurrent Java Programming, Agile, and Diversity in IT

Friday, May 18, 2012 05:23 AM | Trisha Gee

In a wide-ranging interview, LMAX's Trisha Gee talks to Charles Humble about using Java for low latency programming, and the Disruptor, an open source concurrent programming framework developed by LMAX. She also discusses the agile management techniques used at LMAX, and issues around gender and ethnic diversity in IT. By Trisha Gee

CouchDB versus Couchbase: What are the differences, and what happened to Membase?

Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:59 PM | Rick Hightower

Recently Couchbase published a comparison of Couchbase and CouchDB to denote the differences and simlarities between the two. This document addresses a common question: "What is the difference between CouchDB and Couchbase?", and what happened to Membase? InfoQ caught up with James Phillips, a Couchbase founder, to discuss the comparison and the merger of the two products Membase and CouchDB. By Rick Hightower

Presentation: Pallet - DevOps for the JVM

Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:10 AM | Antoni Batchelli

Antoni Batchelli introduces Pallet, a devops platform for the JVM for provisioning and configuring servers, configuring clustered services, deploying and managing software, servers and services. By Antoni Batchelli

Web Intents: What They Are and Their Current Implementation Status

Thursday, May 17, 2012 09:10 AM | Abel Avram

This article shortly explains what Web Intents are and why they are useful. Google has enabled Web Intents in Chrome 19, the implementation being available to Safari via WebKit, and Mozilla is also working on it. By Abel Avram

Presentation: Quantum, Virtual Networks for OpenStack

Thursday, May 17, 2012 09:09 AM | Salvatore Orlando

Salvatore Orlando introduces OpenStack and Quantum, a project intended to provide network connectivity as a service, covering the current state and expected developments in the future. By Salvatore Orlando

Article: Distributed Version Control Systems in the Enterprise

Thursday, May 17, 2012 05:11 AM | Pablo Santos

Every major Open Source project worldwide has already embraced Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS), will enterprises be next? By Pablo Santos

Design Thinking and Culture of Collaboration

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:17 PM | Srini Penchikala

Design thinking is about creating vision of the future, not just managing the present. Bill Burnett from Stanford University recently spoke about design thinking and what questions we need to ask to shift from design to design thinking. By Srini Penchikala

Presentation: Grid Gain vs. Hadoop. Why Elephants Can't Fly

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:10 AM | Dmitriy Setrakyan

Dmitriy Setrakyan introduces GridGain, comparing it and outlining the cases where it is a better fit than Hadoop, accompanied by a live demo showing how to set up a GridGain job. By Dmitriy Setrakyan

Presentation: Games for the Masses - How DevOps Affects Architecture Design

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 09:09 AM | Jesper Richter-Reichhelm

Jesper Richter-Reichhelm presents the DevOps integration at Wooga, and how their system architecture has evolved over the years in order to cope with the increasing number of players. By Jesper Richter-Reichhelm

Going Beyond async and await On WinRT

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 08:30 AM | Jeff Martin

The Windows Runtime introduces greater support for asynchronous programming. The await and async keywords for C# and Visual Basic are part of this support. By Jeff Martin