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- Architecture
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In this presentation, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock presents some practical lessons she has learned from doing architectural reviews. Many times projects are not delivered in time, or have quality problems or have an incomplete set of features due to architectural flaws. The reviews are meant to highlight existing risks and strengths of the architecture, and to reveal issues initially neglected.
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By Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
on Jul 29, 2008,

- Architecture,
- SOA
- Topics
- Rule Engines
Smart (enough) Systems is a book about Enterprise Decision Management. To make your systems smart enough, your core problem is knowing what's the right decision to make and how to make it when required. EDM is becoming a strategic area in IT as many organizations have found a gap between gaining insights from business intelligence and taking action to exploit that insight in operational decisions.
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By Jean-Jacques Dubray
on Sep 19, 2007,

- Java
- Topics
- Rich Client / Desktop
Desktop Java developers have long lacked resources on pushing the graphical appearance of their applications. The new book Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications attempts to fill this void. InfoQ is privileged to provide both a review and an excerpt of Chapter 14 detailing the Timing Framework library that makes Java animation easier.
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By Andy Roberts
on Sep 17, 2007,
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- .NET
- Topics
- Enterprise Architecture
Normally our book reviews on InfoQ start at mostly positive and go up from there. But once in a while we come across a lemon, and WCF Unleashed is one of them. Written by four authors, the book reads as though all four authors voted on the words for each sentence.
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By Jonathan Allen
on Apr 13, 2008,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Dynamic Languages,
- Ruby on Rails,
- Programming
We take a look at the recently released second edition of "The Ruby Way" by Hal Fulton and see whether it's deserves the hype.
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By Peter Cooper
on Nov 03, 2006,