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	IT's most wanted: Mainframe programmers Many mainframe personnel are set to retire in coming years, and fewer students interested in learning how to work with these systems. That could lead to a skills shortage for managing and maintaining the mainframes that run so many critical applications. Read More WHITE PAPER: Lumension Control your application environment When handled intelligently, whitelisting is a tremendous asset to any business looking for a cost-effective means of bolstering its security. Here are the features you need to look for in whitelisting software and the steps you must take for successful deployment. Learn More! In this Issue Devops: IT's latest paper tiger Ruby clouds: Engine Yard vs. Heroku The secret to IT project success EU: Programming languages cannot be copyrighted Google JavaScript library offers access to APIs WHITE PAPER: Agitar Technologies, Inc. Observation Driven Testing: What else is your code doing? Test-Driven Development's strengths include the ability to create code that does only what you want and create a thorough set of automated tests. What about unintended side effects? Yes, the code is doing what you want but what else is it doing? Observation-Driven Testing helps answer that question. Learn more Devops: IT's latest paper tiger No half-baked movement can solve the broad, complex challenge of bridging the divide between app dev and operations. Read More Ruby clouds: Engine Yard vs. Heroku In the world of Ruby development, there are two primary cloud-based, platform-as-a-service offerings: Engine Yard and Heroku. They offer contrasting approaches and features that will appeal to different audiences. Read More The secret to IT project success If you want to run a next-generation IT department -- heck, if you want to run a this-generation IT department -- project teams had better be up to their eyeballs in the business of business change. Read More EU: Programming languages cannot be copyrighted European Court of Justice's Yves Bot defined the functionality of a computer program as the set of possibilities offered by a computer system --- in other words, the service the user expects from it --- and as such is not eligible for copyright protection. Read More Google JavaScript library offers access to APIs Google this week began offering an alpha version of Google APIs Client Library for JavaScript, which provides access to HTTP-based APIs on the Web, as well as to many of Google's public APIs. Read More
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