Posts Tagged ‘application development’

Agile Software Development and PaaS - Like Peanut Butter for Chocolate

Thursday, December 11, 2008 16:52 No Comments

While agile software development is centrally about the project management aspects of programming, and a flexible, unencumbering methodology to get to a better end product, few tools in the process actually have to do with the rapid creation and recreation of applications. Agile is an approach at the problem, but in the end, traditional compile, check-in, test, [...]

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What is Lean Software, and is It the New Black in Application Development?

Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:26 No Comments

According to an eWeek article, “Move Over, Open Source, Lean Software Is the New Black for Developers,” Forrester analyst John Rymer believes that lean software, an approach to building software that promotes simplicity and minimizes resource usage, is what the application development industry must move to as the next development paradigm in order to [...]

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The Birth of a Silo: Another Expensive IT Application Project

Tuesday, September 9, 2008 15:40 No Comments

Why are Hollywood blockbusters so expensive to produce?
They often run $100-million or more to make. The reason is that every movie project is a product; fully conceived and produced from the lines in the script to the distributed prints that get sent out to the movie theater. Hollywood studios often have to create everything [...]

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Tips for Building Your First Application on LongJump PaaS

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 15:03 1 Comment

We sat down with Sheela Sarva who works with the LongJump Support Team to talk about building applications on LongJump’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution, and what are some of the challenges for businesses before they jump in.
Q. Hi, Sheela. Can you tell us what you do at LongJump?
A. I work on the support team, primarily focused [...]

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