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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.
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Apache Synapse Graduates from Incubator, Releases 0.91
The Apache Synapse project has been promoted from the Apache Incubator to a full member of the Apache Web Services project. Apache Synapse is a mediation framework for Web Services that allows messages flowing through, into, or out of an organization to be mediated. The Synapse team has just released 0.91 of the project.
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Interview with Jim Sherburne of BEA on WebLogic Server Virtual Edition
InfoQ recently sat down with Jim Sherburne, Director or Product Marketing for BEA's virtualization offerings to discuss BEA's virtualization strategy that was announced last month and LiquidVM, a version of the JVM that includes basic operating system capabilities and will run on a hypervisor.
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SQL Server Always-On Solution Review Program
When building a mission critical database, a lot of attention needs to be paid to the hardware. Simply getting the fastest drives isn't enough if those drives cannot be hot swapped or corrupt data whenever the power fails. Fortunately Microsoft has created a program for choosing the correct storage mechanism.
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Flash: The Next Open Source Debate?
With Java open sourced and Microsoft unlikely to start open sourcing their software stack anytime soon, Flash stands and one of the most widely used technologies driving the internet which is not open source. Duane Nickull has written a starting point for the debate.
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O/R Mapping, Caching, and Performance
One of the common misconceptions about Object/Relational Mapping (O/R Mapping) frameworks is that they give developers caching for free and that caching improves performance. While O/R Mapping frameworks do rely on caching, improved performance isn't in the cards.
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JRake: Ant-Killer Combo of JRuby and Rake
As JRuby becomes a viable solution for real development tasks, former ThoughtWorker Matt Foemmel is hard at work improving the world of build scripts by replacing ant with rake. He's winning fans among heavy-hitters such as Martin Fowler.