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What Do You Want On Future Browsers? Time to Vote!

Community
Java
Topics
Javascript,
Web 2.0,
Rich Internet Apps

An industry wishlist for future browsers has been collected and developed by OpenAjax Alliance. Using wiki as an open collaboration tool and with contributions from many people in the industry, the feature list now lists 37 separate feature requests, covering a wide range of technology areas. OpenAjax Alliance is calling for everyone to vote for his/her favorite features.

JProbe 8.0: The Java code, memory, and coverage profiler is back

Community
Java
Topics
Code Analysis,
Debugging

Quest Software recently released JProbe 8.0, a Java code, memory, and coverage profiler. While JProbe has been one of the leading Java profiling tools since the late 1990's, JProbe 8.0 aims to help Quest regain the leadership position in the profiling market with new Eclipse integration and a more competitive price point.

TargetProcess Offers a Free 5-User Community Edition

Community
Agile
Topics
Artifacts & Tools

TargetProcess has released a free 5-user Community Edition of its Agile project management software. The Community Edition contains the same features as the full edition of the product with two limitations: a maximum 5 users, and no support.

Dime Casts .NET - Learn Something New in 10 Minutes or Less

Community
.NET
Topics
Training / Certification

There is no better way to learn a technology than being able to watch someone teach it to you. A new video podcast has been created to help .NET developers learn about various aspects of .NET development in short, focused segments.

RubyKaigi 2008: Standardization, 1.9 Roadmap

Community
Ruby
Topics
Runtimes

News from RubyKaigi2008—the Japanese Ruby conference held at Tsukuba from June 20 through 22—concerning the planned Ruby standardization, the Ruby 1.9 roadmap and a glimpse at upcoming features in future versions of Ruby.

RubyKaigi 2008: Interview With Ruby Creator Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto

Community
Ruby
Topics

The annual RubyKaigi conference took place from June 20 through 22 at Tsukuba, Japan. The first day held a discussion between Ruby's father Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto and Eihiro Saishu about the role of Ruby in enterprise systems and the new Ruby Association Certified Ruby Programmer certification program.

The Personal Retrospective – Improving Your "Wetware"

Community
Agile
Topics
Methodologies,
Training / Certification

Andy Hunt's interview last month talks about his progression from pragmatic programmer to Agile development to his latest interest – Pragmatic Wetware. "Wetware is the stuff in your head. That's the thing between your ears that's really where all the action is – that's where all the software development actually takes place."

Presentation: Enterprise Batch Processing with Spring

Community
Java
Topics
Enterprise Architecture

In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Wayne Lund discusses batch processing, Spring Batch objectives and features, scenarios for using Spring Batch, Spring Batch infrastructure and architecture, scaling Spring Batch, example Spring Batch code, failures and retrying, the Spring Batch Domain Reference Model and execution environment, and the Spring Batch future roadmap.

The Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism) Is Available for Download

Community
.NET
Topics
Composition,
Enterprise Application Blocks

Microsoft has just released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF-June 2008, also known as Prism.

Sandcastle Source Released

Community
.NET
Topics
Artifacts & Tools

Last month there was an uproar over hosting Sandcastle, a closed-source tool, on the open source site CodePlex. In response to customer demands, Microsoft has decided to release the source code for Sandcastle.

Exclusive Content

Rationalizing the Presentation Tier

Thin client paradigm characterized by web applications is a kludge that needs to be repudiated. Old compromises are no longer needed and it's time to move the presentation tier to where it belongs.

Agile Project Management: Lessons Learned at Google

In this presentation filmed during QCon 2007, Jeff Sutherland, the creator of Scrum, talks about his visit at Google to do an analysis of Google's first implementation of Scrum.

AtomServer – The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution

In this article, Bryon Jacob and Chris Berry introduce AtomServer, their implementation of a full-fledged Atom Store based on Apache Abdera, which is now available as open source.

An Introduction to Virtualization

It is easy to think that virtualization applies only to servers. In reality the recent resurgence of the concept is also being applied to networking, storage, and application infrastructure.

REST Anti-Patterns

In this article, Stefan Tilkov explains some of the most common anti-patterns found in applications that claim to follow a "RESTful" design and suggests ways to avoid them.

Choosing between Routing and Orchestration in an ESB

In this article, Adrien Louis and Marc Dutoo discuss the differences and relative merits of using orchestration vs. routing in a typical ESB setup, and discuss various implementation options.

Enterprise Batch Processing with Spring

Wayne Lund discusses batch processing, Spring Batch objectives and features, scenarios for usage, Spring Batch architecture, scaling, example code, failures and retrying, and the future roadmap.

User Story Estimation Techniques

Developer Jay Fields draws on his experiences as a ThoughtWorks consultant to describe effective user story estimation techniques.