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Eric Hodel discusses RubyGems and his involvement in the Ruby community
In this interview, Eric Hodel talks with InfoQ about his longstanding involvement with the Ruby community, focussing on his recent role as the maintainer of RubyGems, the de facto packaging system for Ruby libraries and applications. Eric also discusses his local Ruby user group Seattle.rb and his involvement with the Ruby Hit Squad, creators of the deployment automation tool Vlad the Deployer
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Novell Releases Version 0.80 of Mono Debugger
A week ago Martin Baulig announced the features of the latest release of the Mono Debugger and Miguel de Icaza followed up with announcment of support in MonoDevelop 1.1.
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Implementing NOLOCK with LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities
Scott Hanselman recently posted a really useful article on his blog covering the NOLOCK hint when using LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities. The problem is actually how to get the SQL generated by LINQ queries to use the NOLOCK hint as SQL developers are accustomed.
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GitHub - Rails-based Git repository hosting
Github is a new service, built in Ruby, for hosting git repositories. But there's more: by exploiting git's features, such as quick branching/merging, it allows new, more streamlined ways of cooperation between and experimentation with open source projects.
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Planning for Eclipse 4.0
Earlier this week, the various teams and developers on Eclipse began discussion on the incubation of new ideas for the future of Eclipse, with a project dubbed 'e4'.
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LINQ Framework Design Guidelines
Now that LINQ has been finalized and released, it is time to start thinking about the ways to use it. Keith Farmer even talks about using it eliminate subclasses. But before we get into that, let us take a look at the official guidance from Microsoft.
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The Buzz on SQL Server 2008 CTP6
Community Technology Preview 6 has been in developer's hands for almost a month.
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Rapid web development with J2EE Spider
J2EE Spider re-invigorates J2EE RAD development with visual interfaces (supplied via Eclipse) for generating code and round-trip engineering.
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Article: Deploying JRuby Applications with Java Web Start
JRuby allows to make application deployment easy by allowing to use Java Web Start. This article walks through the necessary steps for deploying a JRuby GUI application (an Object Browser). Additionally, it looks at Ahead Of Time (AOT) Compilation, a new feature in JRuby 1.1, which allows to compile Ruby code to Java bytecode at build time.
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Released to Developers
Last week Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 with most feature updates targetted squarely at developers.
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GridGain 2.0 Supports Load Balancing, Work Stealing and Data Partitioning
The latest version of GridGain, a java based open source grid computing framework, supports load balancing and data partitioning features. GridGain Systems recently released version 2.0 of the framework which also includes a "work stealing" feature where the scheduled jobs running on overloaded nodes in the grid are "stolen" to run on underloaded nodes.
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eXo Java Content Repository 1.8 Released
The eXo Platform team has released eXo JCR (Java Content Repository) 1.8. The eXo JCR product is a JSR-170-compliant Java content repository implementation.
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Panel: Java Object Persistence: State of the Union
In this panel, the editors of InfoQ.com (Floyd Marinescu) and ODBMS.org (Roberto V. Zicari) asked a group of leading persistence solution architects their views on the current state of the union in persistence in the Java community.
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A New Way to Write Mashups in IE
Microsoft is creating a new way to write mashup-like functionality with what they call "Activities". Rather than being defined within a specific page, users can launch the same set of Activities regardless of what page they are on. The specifications for these have been released under Creative Commons and include patent protection, making them available to other web browser vendors.
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POJO Messaging Architecture with Terracotta
Mark Turansky detailed his implementation of a message bus architecture using Terracotta and Java 5. Instead of using an MQ or JMS based deployment, Mark took advantage of the Terracotta architecture to create his POJO message bus. This allowed for a clean, simple, and inexpensive infrastructure solution to his message needs.