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  • Hypertable Lead Discusses Hadoop and Distributed Databases

    Two open source projects related to Hadoop, HBase and Hypertable, provide Big Table inspired scalable database implementations. InfoQ sat down with Doug Judd, Principal Search Architect at Zvents, Inc. and Hypertable project founder, to discuss its implementation.

  • NHibernate 2.0 Offers Many New Features

    NHibernate 2.0 Alpha has been released this week. The current 2.0 release is the first step to the feature set of Hibernate 3.2.6, many classes have been completely rewritten and lots of features have been added.

  • Microsoft Research Releases Singularity RDK

    On March 4th, the Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) was released as an open source project on CodePlex. The RDK is based on the Singularity Project from Microsoft Research by Galen Hunt, Jim Larus and others. The Project web site said that Singularity itself is primarily about "the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools."

  • Corneliu Tusnea has Released Hawkeye as Open Source

    Corneliu Tusnea, author of the debugging tool Hawkeye, has released the free version as an open source project on CodePlex.

  • RubyGems: 1.1.0 released, now works on Rubinius

    RubyGems 1.1.0 was released with performance updates and other features. In other news: RubyGems now works on Rubinius.

  • OpenXava 3.0 Released

    OpenXava provides a framework that allows developers to quickly and productively create web applications and portlets. Version 3.0 allows users to take full advantage of JPA, creating complex user interfaces and applications easily.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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'.

  • 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.

  • The Buzz on SQL Server 2008 CTP6

    Community Technology Preview 6 has been in developer's hands for almost a month.

  • 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.

  • 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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