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Amazon, eBay, Yahoo! architectures to be presented at QCon
Architects from Amazon, eBay, and Yahoo! will be doing case study talks on aspects of their architectures at QCon London (March 14-16), a three day conference (plus 2 tutorial days) featuring speakers such as Martin Fowler, Dave Thomas, Gavin King, Werner Vogels, Rod Johnson, Erik Meijer, and 50 others. Tracks span Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Agile, Ajax, Architecture, Usability, and others.
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In Case You Missed It: Oracle Supports .NET in the Database
In the ongoing competition between Microsoft and Oracle for the enterprise developer's attention, SQL Server added the ability to embed .NET code. Not to be out done, Oracle has added that ability as well for both Java and .NET with Oracle Database Extensions for .NET.
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SQL Server Compact Edition Released
SQL Server Compact Edition has been released. As we reported in September, this product is being positioned as a replaced for the venerable Jet engine traditional used by Visual Basic programmers for lightweight databases.
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Continuous Integration Server QuickBuild 1.2 Released
PMEase has released version 1.2 of QuickBuild, a commercial version of the open-source continuous integration server Luntbuild.
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Deep Support for Oracle in Visual Studio
Visual Studio has had some support for SQL Server for quite some time, but that does not help the developers who are targeting Oracle. Fortunately Oracle has taken steps to address this by releasing Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET.
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Improving Java EE Application startup time with the WorkManager API
A new article on JavaWorld details how to improve the startup time of a Java EE application by converting startup servlets into Work Implementations handled by the WorkManager API. The WorkManager API is an API supported by multiple application servers and designed to allow parallel task execution inside of a managed environment.
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TeamCity 1.2 Released - Continuous Integration Server for Java and .NET
JetBrains has released version 1.2 of TeamCity, a continuous integration server which now includes a plugin for Visual Studio 2005, along with support for Visual SourceSafe.
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VB 8 Compiling on Mono
Rolf Bjarne's VB 8 compiler is now self-hosting on Mono. This represents a major milestone for both the Mono team and the VB language.
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Issues with the ActiveRecord Pattern and Statically Typed Languages
Hibernate team member Emmanuel Bernard recently wrote on the issues with the ActiveRecord pattern and statically typed languages like Java.
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Sun Open Sources Fortress programming language for the JVM
Fortress, a new language designed specifically for high-performance computing (HPC), has been released on SunSource under the BSD language. The preliminary interpreter is based on the JVM. Fortress is intended as a modern day replacement for Fortran.
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2006 Top Enterprise Software News and Content
It is our pleasure to present to you the most popular content on InfoQ in 2006. InfoQ.com launched June 8th, 2006, and has since put out over seventy six high quality articles on Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile, as well as a number of free downloadable books and video interviews / video conference presentations by world renowned experts.
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Article: Spring 2.0: What's New and Why it Matters
Spring co-founder Rod Johnson provides the definitive article on the motivations behind and uses of the new features in Spring 2.0. This first article covers the Spring core container, XML configuration extensions, AOP enhancements and Java 5-specific features.
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QCon Schedule Posted: Europe has a New Major Software Conference
The schedule for QCon London has been posted spanning 5 days with three full conference days and 2 tutorial days featuring speakers such as Martin Fowler, Dave Thomas, Gavin King, Werner Vogels, Rod Johnson, Erik Meijer, and 50 others. Tracks span Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Agile, Investment banking IT, Architecture, Usability, and case studies on eBay and other major software deployments.
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Presentation: Distributed Caching Essential Lessons
Cameron Purdy presents on improving performance and scalability of applications through the use of caching to reduce load on the database teir and & clustered caching to provide transparent fail-over by reliably sharing live data among clustered JVMs.
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eXoweb Portal and ECM 2.0 Moving towards WebOS
The eXo Platform recently announced new versions of their Portal and ECM products at JavaPolis. InfoQ sat down with Benjamin Mestrallet of eXo Platform to talk about the new products. eXo is targetting the products to simulate a web operating system that fits enterprise needs.