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Are Business Analysts Ready to Become Programmers?
Microsoft seems to think so as they prepare to deliver on the Oslo vision. Back in November 2007 Doug Purdy made a veiled reference to a new project in development calling it "Emacs.NET". This fueled rampant speculation far from the intended mark.
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What Social Networks Are Teaching Us About Data Portability
As more social networking sites are popping up, the questions around the data they keep are rising. Data portability has become the watch phrase across the Web 2.0 world. Is there something to be learned about data access and portability from these services?
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Firefox 3 RC1 Adds Javascript 1.8, Microformat Support and More
The Mozilla project has released Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). New features in Firefox 3 include support for Javascript 1.8, DOM and HTML changes, microformats support, and an extended Canvass implementation.
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InfoQ China Colour Scheme Goes Gray in Consideration of Earthquake Victims
As China began a three-day official mourning period from May 19th for victims of the May 12 earthquake that happened in Sichuan Province in southwestern China, InfoQ China joined other tech sites and on Monday and changed the whole site's colour scheme to gray as an act to express its mourning.
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The ADO.NET Entity Framework Sparks a Debate
A recent blog post written by Danny Simmons, a Microsoft ADO.NET developer, about the ADO.NET Entity Framework has started a series of reactions about the respective topic.
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IdeaBlade announces DevForce EF beta for building Rich Internet Applications
Recently IdeaBlade announced DevForce EF which builds upon the Microsoft Entity Framework and will provide support for Silverlight.
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The First ADO.NET Providers Supporting the Entity Framework Are Ready
InfoQ published a list of companies interested in offering ADO.NET providers which support the Entity Framework a few months ago. Some of them are offering now the respective providers.
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Rails Deployment Roundup: Dreamhost with mod_rails, Capistrano 2.3, Book
Roundup of Rails deployment news, including Dreamhost's announcement of Rails support using mod_rails - after the controversy earlier this year, Capistrano 2.3 release as well as the availability of the book "Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide".
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Reactions to Licensing, OSGi, and Technical Aspects of the SpringSource Application Platform
As first reported by InfoQ two weeks ago, SpringSource recently announced a beta release of the SpringSource Application Platform. In the weeks that have passed, developer and industry pundit commentary has been centered around one of two areas, Licensing/General Strategy and OSGi/Technical Implementation.
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JavaOne: Garbage First
In a JavaOne presentation, Sun Microsystems’ Tony Printezis provided more details on Garbage First, a replacement for the CMS garbage collector particularly targeted at long running server applications.
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Tuscany SCA Java 1.2 and SDO 1.1 released.
The Apache Tuscany team announced last month the 1.2 release of the Java SCA and 1.1 release of SDO projects. These releases make Tuscany implementation complaint with the main latest SCA specifications, including SCA Assembly Model, SCA Policy framework, SCA Java Common Annotations, SCA EJB, Spring, BPEL and Web Services bindings, etc.
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JavaOne 2008 Day 2 - Bean Validation Presentation and Oracle Fusion Middleware Preview
On day 2 of JavaOne 2008 conference, Emmanuel Bernard talked about Bean Validation framework (JSR 303). The goal of this specification is to provide a uniform way to express and implement the constraints in java applications. Earlier in the day, Oracle team previewed the upcoming features of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.
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Fine Grained Versioning with ClickOnce
ClickOnce makes it easy to deploy WinForms applications. But while it has some versioning support, it has no built in way to deliver different versions to different people. This makes partial rollouts to a test audience difficult. David Cooksey shows how to fine grained versioning to a ClickOnce deployment using an HttpHandler written with ASP.NET.
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DataNucleus Launched as Successor to Java Persistence Platform JPOX
The open source Java persistence platform JPOX has become DataNucleus for its future direction, due to the significant changes in scope of the project since its initiation. The baseline product DataNucleus AccessPlatform, provides persistence to RDBMS, db4o, XML, LDAP and Excel datastores via JDO or JPA APIs.
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ExtJS Licensing Continues to Evolve as a Result of Controversal Switch from LGPL to GPLv3
Jack Slocum, lead developer of the popular Javascript library ExtJS, announced this week a community effort to develop two new exceptions for open source software developed using ExtJS 2.1 or greater. This move came as a response to frustration and confusion surrounding recent changes in the Ext JS licensing model from LGPL to GPLv3.