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New Ruby Enterprise Edition Release Switches to Ruby 1.8.7
A new release of the Ruby Enterprise Edition switches from Ruby 1.8.6 to Ruby 1.8.7 and includes patches that significantly improve performance, as Evan Weaver from Twitter confirms.
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Agile Australia 2009 Conference
The Agile Australia 2009 conference is running in Sydney on 15 & 16 October. Over 25 sessions with local and international speakers.
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Cisco Has Announced the Winners of a Year Long Contest
Cisco has announced the winners of the “Think Inside the Box” Developer Contest. The challenge was to create an AXP application for Cisco’s ISR.
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Jetty 7.0 released
The release of Jetty 7.0 was announced today and is available for download from its new home at Eclipse.org as well as via the maven repository. This version represents an evolution of Jetty 6.0, and represents a significant reorganisation of the codebase as well as numerous performance improvements. In addition, the Continuation API is now portable across different servers.
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MuleSoft Releases Tomcat-based Tcat Server and iBeans Integration Framework
Tcat Server, an Apache Tomcat-based application server created by MuleSoft (formerly MuleSource), was released today. InfoQ took the opportunity to talk with Mahau Ma, Greg Schott and Ross Mason of MuleSoft to learn more about Tcat Server and another new integration framework called iBeans.
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Considerations for an S+S Implementation
The article, Design Considerations for S+S and Cloud Computing, written by eight architects from Microsoft, is a collection of design considerations to be taken into account when planning the architecture of a Software plus Services (S+S) solution for the enterprise.
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Apache Lucene 2.9 Released
The Apache Software Foundation has released Lucene 2.9, the last minor release before 3.0. Amongst other features version 2.9 includes a number of performance improvements, and adds near real-time searching, native support for numeric range queries, and geospatial aware searching.
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Silverlight 3 is Bringing Multi-Touch to the Web
Using Silverlight 3, web developers can offer multi-touch applications to their Windows 7 users.
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Microsoft Enters Cloud Computing with 2 New Data Centers
Microsoft has announced the opening of 2 new data centers, one in Dublin, Ireland, and another in Chicago, US. These data centers are a preparation for the announcement Microsoft is going to make at PDC 2009 regarding the commercial availability of Windows Azure services.
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Internet Security: an Interview with David Durham
David Durham, manager of Intel's Security and Cryptography Research group, was recently interviewed on the subject of Internet and Computer Security. The interview covers a wide range of topics including the "monetization of malware," Cloud-based detection of malware, security of data stored in the Cloud, "Botnets in the Dark Cloud," and malware as a tool in geo-politics.
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Google Has a Problem with Some Android Developers
Google has issued lately a cease and desist order against Steve Kondik, a well known Android developer who has created CyanogenMod, a free custom Android firmware, bundling some non open source applications like Maps, GMail, Talk, YouTube, and Market. Some see this as the first friction between Google and developers.
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PHP API for Cloud Application Services
Zend Technologies, calling themselves The PHP Company, has launched the open source Simple API for Cloud Application Services project intended to help PHP developers creating applications consuming services from all major clouds. Microsoft has contributed with Windows Azure SDK for PHP Developers.
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Intel Is Porting Silverlight to Moblin, a Linux OS
Intel has showcased IIS Smooth Streaming running on Windows 7 but also on a Moblin device based on their Atom processor on September 23rd during Intel Development Forum 2009. This indicates an effort to port Silverlight to Linux separate than Moonlight.
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Interview With Sam Ramji, Interim President of the CodePlex Foundation
Earlier this week, InfoQ summarized some of the community reactions as well as interviewed Ayende Rahien, Scott Bellware and Scott Koon about their impressions of The CodePlex Foundation (CPF). Today, InfoQ presents another interview with Sam Ramji, the President of the CPF.
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MP3 Downloads Now Available, 5 Agile 2009 Presentations Posted
A new and frequently-requested feature has been added to InfoQ - MP3 download of interviews and presentations for registered users! To start with, MP3s will be available for the Agile 2009 presentations, which are also now becoming available on InfoQ.