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Dynamic Invocation Runs on OpenJDK
John Rose, a Hotspot VM developer at Sun, has announced the first successful execution of the 'invokedynamic' instruction on the OpenJDK VM. Dynamic invocation is an important feature for adapting dynamic languages to the JVM.
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VMware Infrastructure 3 Book Excerpt and Author Interview
The new book VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide and Advanced Operations Guide details both the design environments and operational processes of VMware Infrastructure 3. InfoQ is proud to provide both a book excerpt and an interview with the authors Ron Oglesby, Scott Herold, and Mike Laverick.
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Annual Update to the Agile Alliance Board of Directors
The Agile Alliance membership recently elected new members to its Board of Directors. Votes were cast via email and in person, and announced during the Agile2008 conference. Johanna Rothman was elected Conference Chair for Agile2009.
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IE8 Beta 2 Released for the Consumer
Microsoft has just released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. While Beta 1 was aimed to the developers, Beta 2 is for the consumers. Some of the top features of the browser are: Web Slices, Search Suggestions, Accelerators, Compatibility View, SmartScreen Filter.
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IntelliJ IDEA 8: Beyond Java
InfoQ had the opportunity to interview Dmitry Jemerov from JetBrains, Inc. regarding the recent release of IntelliJ IDEA 8 Milestone 1. Read on to find out what to expect in the latest version of the <a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/company/press/awards.html">award</a> winning IDE and when it will be ready for prime time.
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SQL Server 2008 Express Series Is Available
Microsoft has made available three versions of SQL Server 2008 Express. Express editions are free versions of SQL Server intended for learning or building small server applications, or for ISV redistribution. The Tools edition contains the Management Studio, while the Advanced Services edition has full-text search and Reporting Services.
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Table-Valued Parameters in SQL Server
Table-valued parameters are a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2008. They provide a built-in way to send multiple rows of data from a client application to SQL Server in a single parameterized SQL statement.
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Sparse Columns, Filtered Indexes, and Column Sets
Sparse Columns, Filtered Indexes, and Column Sets are new features for SQL Server 2008. While they allow you to break the 1024 limit on columns and save significant disk space, if not used correctly they can be a disaster.
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Gordon Pask Award 2008 Winners
The Agile Alliance's annual Gordon Pask Award recognizes two persons for their contributions to Agile practice. The award is for potentially new, rather than established, leaders. This year's honorees were Kenji Hiranabe and Arlo Belshee; Bob Payne was also recognized for his philanthropic work. Award program leadership has changed, and community input is solicited to improve the program.
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Microsoft Licensing Changes Support Virtualization
Recently Microsoft made several licensing changes in regards to running its products in virtualized environments.
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NHibernate 2.0 has Arrived
NHibernate 2.0 was made official with the announcement of its general availability by Ayende Rahien. The announcement follows months of alphas and release candidates and now matches the features of Hibernate 3.2.
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Article: Developing Portlets using JSF, Ajax, and Seam (Part 2 of 3)
This article, the second in a three-part series by Wesley Hales, expands upon the previous article by introducing RichFaces. It covers integrating RichFaces into the previous sample application, deploying a RichFaces portlet, and several features and capabilities of RichFaces.
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SQL Server 2008 Indexing Tips And Tricks
Bill Vaughn provides a roundup of SQL Server 2008 indexing tips and tricks, based on advice form Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randall. The tips cover Query Optimizer selectivity and query optimization.
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Amazon Brings Virtualized Storage to the Cloud with Elastic Block Storage
Persistent has long been an achilles heel of the EC2 platform. Today Amazon moved to address this issue with the release of Elastic Block Storage (EBS).
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Ruby and Rails Software Stacks Overview
A growing number of fully fledged software stacks for Ruby is available, providing all the necessary software you need to run an application, including web and database servers. They come in different flavors: virtual machine images, Amazon EC2 images and installer based. We take a look at some of them to give you an overview.