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  • Beyond Polling? Consider PubSub, Push and MOM

    You would expect a presentation entitled "Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub" would have REST proponents up in arms. Instead, discussion was around the pros and cons of various PubSub alternatives.

  • Grails Gains Cloud Hosting with Morph AppSpace

    Morph AppSpace is a cloud-based platform for hosting web applications. The latest release has added support for Groovy and Grails. InfoQ caught up with David Abramowski, CEO of Morph Labs to get some more details around it's recent move into the Java space.

  • Mono 2 News Update

    Marek Safar has announced that gmcs, the C# compiler for Mono, now has full C# 3.0 support in Mono 2. Meanwhile, Linear IR is offering significant improvements over the older Mono JIT.

  • Should LINQ to SQL Go Open Source

    More and more, LINQ to SQL is being seen as a temporary solution. With the impending release of ADO.NET Entity Framework, a lot of people are worried that development on LINQ to SQL will fall by the wayside. With Microsoft's long history of developing and discarding database access technologies, these concerns are not without merit. So this raises the question, "Should LINQ to SQL Go Open Source?"

  • Object Relational Mapping - User Case Studies

    Roberto Zicari, from ODBMS.org, collected interviews and stories from several users of Object/Relational mapping technologies. The main point of the cases was around "impedance mismatch" between the object technology in the domain model and the relational technology in the data model.

  • Web services orchestration engine Apache ODE 1.2 Released

    The Apache ODE team announced this month the 1.2 release of the Apache ODE project. These releases includes many new features, including external variables,support for WSDL HTTP binding and REST-style Web Services advanced endpoint configuration, and a lot of small improvements and bug fixes.

  • CM Crossroads on SCM for Small Teams

    Agile brings to organizations, among other things, small teams coupled with constant change. Navigating this effectively requires understanding what this means to Software Configuration Management practices. The July edition of CM Journal's "cm//crossroads" is dedicated to helping people meet this challenge successfully.

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 August Release

    Microsoft has unofficially announced that SQL Server 2008 will be released in August, 2008 with no price increase over SQL Server 2005.

  • Databases Roundup: Data Sharding for ActiveRecord and Faster Postgres IO

    In this databases roundup we take a look at DataFabric, FiveRun's recently open sourced data sharding plug-in for ActiveRecord. Also: a look at speeding up Postgres data access using the asynchronous client API and Ruby 1.9's Fibers.

  • Eucalyptus Project Delivers Open Source Cloud Computing with EC2 Interface Compatibility

    Eucalyptus is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing cloud computing. Among its features is interface compatibility with EC2 (both Web service and Query interfaces).

  • Interview: Christophe Coenraets Discusses Flex 3, AIR, and BlazeDS

    In this interview from QCon London 2008, Christophe Coenraets discusses Flex 3, Flex Builder, AIR, BlazeDS, the move towards open source at Adobe, how to integrate Flex with existing applications, and the challenges of integrating Rich Internet Applications with search engines and built-in browser functionality.

  • Eclipse Riena: Business-Oriented Client/Server Applications

    The third milestone of Eclipse Riena 1.0.0 has been released, offering a first draft of new user-interface concepts and a new look-and-feel to make Eclipse-based applications more business-process oriented.

  • Spring Dynamic Modules Continuing To Improve

    OSGi is all the rage with numerous implementations and usages and the Spring Framework has also been in the mix. Earlier this year they released Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi(tm) Service Platforms version 1.0. Improving the development of Spring applications running an OSGi framework. Recently they release version 1.1.0.

  • VMware Moves into Application Virtualization with ThinApp 4.0

    VMware has released ThinApp 4.0 (formerly Application Virtualization Suite). The product provides application virtualization. This is the first release of the product since VMware acquired Thinstall in January.

  • Using Mono and Gtk# to Survive the Gtk+ Treadmill

    The proposed changes for Gtk+ 3.0 have stirred up quite a bit of controversy. A lot of people are sounding off against the plethora of breaking changes that are being made for "code quality" issues and don't directly lead to new features. Those hit hardest are also Gtk+'s most important audience, the application developers that rely on the framework.

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