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DiUS is proud to sponsor the April YOW! Nights in Melbourne, Brisbane & Sydney. Speaker Dave Thomas discussed the opportunity for innovation in legacy systems using contemporary technologies and practices and referenced a DiUS case study, which you can download here

DiUS is proud to be a sponsor of the YOW! 2010 International Developer Conference in Melbourne 2-3 December and Brisbane 6-7 December. The conference will feature keynote addresses by Guy Steel, Fellow Oracle Sun Labs and Dick Gabriel, Distinguished Engineer IBM Research; Rod Johnson, GM VMware SpringSource and Erik Meijer, Distinguished Engineer Microsoft.
You can read more about the conference at yowconference.com.auexternal

Thanks to our strong growth in the Sydney market, DiUS has a new home a short stroll from the Sydney Opera House. The address is Level 5, 220 George Street, Sydney 2000; feel free to drop by and pay us a visit sometime.

SpringSense, the search relevancy booster developed in partnership with DiUS, launched its website and online demo last month. The technology uses a patent-pending algorithm to allow users to search by meaning rather than keywords. Tal & the team hope to announce their first client and commencement of a real-world trial soon.

The team is also working on creating an open API to SpringSense that will be free for promotional use (up to approximately 100,000 queries per month), and will be launching it with a SpringSense application contest. Stay tuned for more details!

You can register to demo the technology at http://www.springsense.comexternal or follow them on Twitter @springsns.

Premier John Brumby launched Victoria’s Electric Vehicle trial last month and announced the participation of DiUS’s innovative Charge IQ home charging technology.

Charge IQ is a charging solution for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) that allows vehicle owners to take advantage of off-peak electricity prices to charge their PEVs and thereby decrease the peak load on the electricity grid. For more information about Charge IQ, download the fact sheet here (PDF 292KB). More details about the trial can be found hereexternal

DiUS has received a grant through the Victorian Government’s Smart SMEs Market Validation program to deliver a smart sensors platform. DiUS’s smart sensor platform has potential application across a number of different markets, including in-home health care, smart appliances, environmental and hazard monitoring, weather tracking and intelligent electric vehicle charging.

DiUS was a major sponsor of this year’s Agile Australia conference. Over 450 delegates from 140 companies attended the conference to hear keynote speakers Jim Highsmith, Jeff Smith and Martin Fowler address the conference. Some were lucky enough to also hear our very own Paula Ngov & David Musson from Jemena present a case study on the benefits of applying Agile development processes to large, complex projects, which was also covered by IT News hereexternal

We’ve moved! Our Melbourne office has moved to bigger and better premises in Queen St. We’ve also got a new phone number. See our contacts page for details.

DiUS has developed Tami, a tool we needed to help us navigate the ideas we generate through a quality-based agile product development lifecycle. Tami allows users to describe and visualise a product’s requirements in a simple structure, and define the acceptance criteria for a product’s features in a simple domain specific language. Using current behaviour-driven development (BDD) tools, Tami ensures that a product’s features are kept “live” by integrating the product owner and business analyst views of the product with the development build processes.

Tami is being developed on Ruby on Rails and the YUI JavaScript library, and integrates with Cucumber, Selenium, Webrat and other testing frameworks.

PlanWAN is a business case planning tool for fixed-location, large-scale wide area network solutions. It provides network planners with financial and geographical models of their wired or wireless networks based on a configurable set of technology profiles.