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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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jclouds Beta 7 Coming: Interview With Adrian Cole

Friday, Sep 03, 2010 06:10 AM | Tim Cull

The open source, Java-based cloud computing and storage adaptor, jclouds, releases a new beta the end of this month. InfoQ interviewed Adrian Cole, the project lead, for his take on marrying Java to the cloud. By Tim Cull

Silverlight’s Role as a Web Application Technology is Debated

Friday, Sep 03, 2010 05:58 AM | Abel Avram

Brad Becker, Director of Product Management for Developer Platforms, has written a post outlining the future of Silverlight in an HTML5 world as seen by Microsoft, considering it fit for the web. Others consider Silverlight is not actually meant for web applications but it is rather serving a niche area within web development market. By Abel Avram

Re-estimate Completed User Stories for a More Accurate Velocity?

Thursday, Sep 02, 2010 05:26 PM | Dan Puckett

In a recent thread on the Scrum Development mailing list, Paul Battison asked whether his team should re-estimate completed stories after the sprint is done, so as to have the team's velocity reflect the actual effort that went into completing the stories. By Dan Puckett

Interview with Ken Schwaber, Part 2

Thursday, Sep 02, 2010 01:00 PM | Dan Mezick

Ken Schwaber is the co-creator of Scrum with Jeff Sutherland. This is Part 2 of a multi-part interview with Ken, covering Scrum credentialing and testing, Scrum coaching, the influence of the Kanban Method for managing complex work, Ken's thoughts on the future of knowledge work, and more. By Dan Mezick

Nuxeo Introduces fise Semantic Engine

Thursday, Sep 02, 2010 10:35 AM | Dave West

Nuxeo introduces fise - an open source RESTful semantic engine to which NUXEO has made contributions. The goal of the fise is to "help bring new and trendy semantic features to CMS by giving developers a stack of reusable HTTP semantic services to build upon." fise is part of a larger effort, IKS (Interactive Knowledge Stack) as a means of enhancing CMS offerings with Semantic Web capabilities. By Dave West

Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET

Thursday, Sep 02, 2010 09:43 AM | Abel Avram

The patterns&practices team has released Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET, a book containing guidance for writing parallel programs for .NET. In essence the book contains 6 design patterns for parallel programming accompanied code samples. By Abel Avram

Presentation:Reformulating the Product Delivery Process

Thursday, Sep 02, 2010 04:31 AM | Israel Gat, Erik Huddleston and Stephen Chin

Israel Gat, Erik Huddleston and Stephen Chin present how Inovis realized a higher product throughput by using three Kanban practices – Stakeholder-based Investment Themes and Business Case Management, Upstream and Downstream WIP Limits, Dynamic Allocations – and a Lean Release Management tool called APROPOS, or Agile Project Portfolio Scheduler. By Israel Gat, Erik Huddleston and Stephen Chin

Presentation:Enterprise Mashups: Why Do I Care?

Thursday, Sep 02, 2010 03:23 AM | Ross Mason

Ross Mason discusses enterprise mashups, what they are and how to use them by applying a number of patterns, such as FeedFactory, Super Search, and Pipeline, in order to find new ways to benefit from existing enterprise data. By Ross Mason

Using the Common Information Model for Building Semantic Services

Wednesday, Sep 01, 2010 08:53 PM | Boris Lublinsky

Despite multiple articles on the importance of semantic messaging for services interoperability, there is very little practical guidance on using the industry specific common information models. A new DeveloperWorks article by Gandhi Sivakumar and Ram Viswanathan is trying to fill that void. By Boris Lublinsky

Amethyst, a Flex IDE for Microsoft Visual Studio Released

Wednesday, Sep 01, 2010 12:02 PM | Dionysios G. Synodinos

Amethyst is a fully-featured Visual Studio IDE for the Adobe Flash Platform. It supports the drag-and-drop design, editing and debugging of Flex and AIR applications and it can also load Flash IDE projects for editing and debugging. By Dionysios G. Synodinos

New PHP Licensing Option for Cloud Computing

Wednesday, Sep 01, 2010 10:54 AM | Dave West

Zend recently announced an 'unlimited subscription' licensing option for its PHP products, in support of cloud computing. Virtualization and Cloud Computing challenge traditional concepts of software licensing, e.g. one license per user, one license per server, because of the dynamism and variability of running instances inherent in both concepts. Zend offers one way to solve this problem. By Dave West

IBM X-Force Report: Enterprise Security Exploits Are Rising

Wednesday, Sep 01, 2010 05:54 AM | Abel Avram

IBM has published the IBM X-Force® 2010 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report August 2010 (112 pages long, free registration required) containing detailed information about the security vulnerabilities and exploits of 2010, such as JavaScript and PDF obfuscation, the current security threat trends in the enterprise, and a look into the future. By Abel Avram

Presentation:Command-Query Responsibility Segregation

Wednesday, Sep 01, 2010 05:46 AM | Udi Dahan

Udi Dahan discusses the Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) pattern and its relationship to Domain Driven Design (DDD), detailing on queries and commands, what they are and how they should be used in an asynchronous programming environment. By Udi Dahan

Article:The Story of a Project

Wednesday, Sep 01, 2010 05:11 AM | Olivier Mallassi

Olivier Mallassi shares a story of a typical software development project, some typical problems and what he learned from Tom Demarco about addressing those problems, and an alternative story. By Olivier Mallassi

Presentation:Living and Working with Aging Software

Wednesday, Sep 01, 2010 05:08 AM | Ralph Johnson

Ralph Johnson discusses principles, practices and tools relating to software development starting not from scratch but from already existing code which needs refactoring, maintenance, and sometimes architectural change. By Ralph Johnson