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A Journeyman's Pair Programming Tour
Corey Haines has embarked on a unique personal "Pair Programming Tour". Now three weeks into this innovative journey, Haines has posted video interviews revealing many of the unique insights he's gained about pairing, automated testing, and the evolution of a software craftsman while sharing the keyboard at the home-bases of Dave Chelimsky, Brian Marick, Uncle Bob Martin, and others.
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CSLA .NET 3.6 Supports Silverlight 2.0
The Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture for .NET (CSLA .NET) version 3.6 has been released including support for Microsoft Silverlight 2.0. CSLA .NET is a .NET software development framework which helps one to “build a powerful, maintainable business logic layer for Windows, Web, service-oriented and workflow applications”.
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Presentation: Second Life’s Architecture
In this presentation, Ian Wilkes, VP of Systems Engineering, describes the architecture used by the popular game named Second Life. Ian presents how the architecture was at its debut and how it evolved over years as users and features have been added.
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Zoho Applications Can Be Deployed on Google App Engine
Zoho has announced that its applications can be deployed on Google App Engine (GAE). Zoho offers a suite of online applications, most of them free for personal usage, and Creator, an online application creator.
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RESTful Business Conversations
In an on-going series of posts titled The REST dialogs, Duncan Cragg “argue[s] the case for eBay to adopt a truly REST approach to their integration API”. In “Business conversations”, Duncan makes a businesses case for adoption of REST-style architecture.
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IBM’s Data Server Provider for .NET Supports the Entity Framework
IBM has released the production version of its Data Server Provider for .NET including support for Microsoft’s Entity Framework allowing its users to create EDM schemas, and to execute EntitySQL and LINQ statements.
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Microsoft Launches iPhone App
Microsoft Live Labs has released Seadragon Mobile, Microsoft's first application developed for the iPhone platform. Seadragon is an image viewer incorporating Microsoft's Deep Zoom functionality, allowing efficient display and manipulation of high-resolution imagery. Seadragon Mobile is available for free in the iTunes App Store.
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Java 1.5 for the .NET Platform
Ja.NET is a port of Java 1.5 SE to the .NET platform. Ja.NET is built on top of noteworthy open source projects such as the Eclipse JDT compiler, Mono's Cecil, and Apache Harmony. Unlike IKVM, which is a full JVM running on .NET, Ja.NET compiles directly to IL. This should give it a significant advantage in performance.
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The Information Perspective of SOA Design
A new DeveloperWorks article provides an introduction to the information perspective of SOA design and some of the key patterns - the business glossary, canonical models, data quality analysis, and information services.
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Erlang Style Concurrency for .NET Applications Part 1 - CCR
Erlang allows for massively scalable concurrency, often with millions of lightweight, thread-like components known as actors. Unfortunately, using Erlang requires rewriting all of your legacy code into a rather esoteric language. But there are other options, such as the little known CCR platform that was developed by .NET's robotics department.
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Ruby Performance: Great Shootout Results And A Discovery About Binary MRI vs Source Compiled MRI
Antonio Cangiano has again benchmarked all Ruby VMs, MRI 1.8 and 1.9.1, REE, JRuby, Rubinius, IronRuby and MagLev. The results show the steady improvement of the performance of all VMs - and a few surprising lessons of how the performance of MRI can vary.
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Presentation: Ian Flint Explains Yahoo! Communities Architectures
In this presentation, Ian Flint, Director of Operations for Bix, Yahoo!’s online contest service, tries to explain the infrastructure and architecture employed by Yahoo! to keep going a multitude of servers running of different platforms and offering different services.
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HTML 5 Web Sockets vs. Comet and Ajax
InfoQ discusses with Richard Smith from Kaazing, about the evolution of technologies like AJAX, Comet and how they match against the promising HTML 5 Web Sockets standard.
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It's Official: Visual Studio 2010 Will Ship with F#
Back in 2007 it was revealed that F# would become a first class language on the .NET platform at some point in the future. Last night it was announced that F# will be included in the Visual Studio 2010 release.
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Presentation: Ruby.rewrite(Ruby)
In this RubyFringe talk, Reginald Braithwaite shows how to write Ruby that reads, writes, and rewrites Ruby. The demos include extending the Ruby language with conditional expressions, new forms of evaluation such as call-by-name and call-by-need, and more.