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NHibernate LINQ Provider Released
NHibernate Linq 1.0 has been released. Based on the stable provider from NHibernate Contrib, NHibernate Linq 1.0 is a LINQ provider that supports most operations available through the NHibernate criteria query API.
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'State of Agile' Survey Open
The fourth annual 'State of Agile' survey is open for public participation. The 6-page survey takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete and participants remain anonymous. Over the past 3 years the survey, sponsored by VersionOne, has gauged how widely agile practices have been adopted, as well as the results obtained.
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JBoss Netty 3.1 Released
Netty 3.1.0 was recently released by the JBoss Community and is another option when writing client/server network applications.
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Generating Linux Appliances from Visual Studio
Novell has released SUSE Studio, a tool used for creating Linux appliances. Related to that, the Mono team has created a plug-in to generate such SUSE powered appliances from within Visual Studio.
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IronRuby and the Road to 1.0
IronRuby was originally announced by Microsoft at MIX'07 and two years later developers are wondering where is version 1.0. InfoQ interviewed John Lam My in January of 2008, where John indicated the team was looking for release in the second half of the year, but that did not materialize.
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HyperSpace, a Browsing Environment with a Small Footprint
Phoenix Technologies has created HyperSpace, a small OS that supports only browsing. HyperSpace precedes Google Chrome OS which is supposed to offer the same functionality with some differences.
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Scott Leberknight on Polyglot Persistence
The data persistence solutions in software development have come a long way in the recent years. At the recent Lone Star Software Symposium, Scott Leberknight talked about "Polyglot Persistence" trend where the developers have a choice of different database products like Amazon SimpleDB, Google Bigtable, and CouchDB to choose the data persistence solution.
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Gordon Pask Award Nominations for 2009
The Gordon Pask Award recognizes two people whose recent contributions to Agile Practice make them, in the opinion of the award committee, people others in the field should emulate. The Agile Alliance funds each recipient's travel to two different suitable conferences on two different continents. This year's committee needs your help to identify the next two Gordon Pask Award winners.
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Role Of REST In IT And Cloud Management - A Comparison Of Cloud API's
In a recent article, William Vambenepe, compares four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see the practical value of REST in IT/Cloud management.
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Commercial Java Compiler Protects Eclipse RCP Applications
Excelsior LLC recently released the latest version of Excelsior JET which now prevents the decompilation and unauthorized alteration of Eclipse RCP applications.
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Microsoft Is Contributing 20,000 Lines of Code to the Linux Kernel
Microsoft is contributing 3 Linux device drivers, 20,000 lines of code, to the Linux kernel 2.6.32 under GPLv2 license.
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Oracle Coherence 3.5 Brings Enhanced WebLogic Support and Tera-Scale Data Grids
Oracle has released Coherence 3.5 with support for tera-scale data grids and a service guardian promoting enhanced cluster health and stability.
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4 Office Applications Will Be on the Web: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote
Microsoft wants to take Office 2010 to the web offering some lightweight Office applications running inside the browser.
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Microsoft’s Web Browser-Based OS: Gazelle
Google isn’t the only company toying with the idea of a secure operating system based around a web browser. Back in February, researches at Microsoft revealed details about Gazelle. Gazelle claims to be “a multi-principal OS construction of a secure web browser. Gazelle’s Browser Kernel exclusively provides cross-principal protection and fair sharing of all system resources.”
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Google Is Creating a New Free Operating System Called Google Chrome OS
Google has announced they are working a new operating system called Google Chrome OS. Based on a Linux kernel with a new windowing system, the new OS is targeted at netbooks first and will be open sourced and free.