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Enterprise 2.0, a New Buzzword
A new post by Andrew McAfee describes the advantages of Enterprise 2.0 and gives examples of how Enterprise 2.0 approaches can help to solve real life problems.
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Deleting Data Is Not a Recommended Practice
Oren Eini, alias Ayende Rahien, encourages developers to avoid database soft deletes leaving the reader with the impression that hard deletes are an option. Reacting to Ayende’s blog post, Udi Dahan strongly advices to completely avoid data deletion.
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Building Scalable Web Services
Tom Killalea, Vice President of technology with responsibility for infrastructure and distributed systems engineering at Amazon.com wrote an article on ACM queue on building scalable web services. He outlines guiding principles to building scalable web services with a lot of real-world examples, the core theme of which is “build only what you need”.
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.NETZ – Compression and Packing for .NET Libraries
From the beginning, the .NET runtime had a decent packaging system based on a collection of assemblies. While far better than loose script files or collections of class files, it is not as convenient as statically linked executables or executable JARs. Vasian Cepa’s .NETZ gives developers the ability to compress .NET assemblies and pack them into a single executable file.
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PMI Launches Agile Community of Practice at Agile2009
The Project Management Institute (PMI) officially launched their Agile Community of Practice at the Agile2009 conference. The group's stated mission is: "To equip PMI Members with Agile skills and knowledge" Mike Griffiths has been credited with getting things moving when he issued a challenge at Agile 2007 that PMI form an Agile Specific Interest Group.
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SQLAzureMW Migrates SQL Databases to SQL Azure
The SQL Azure Migration Wizard (SQLAzureMW) is a CodePlex project and wizard that can be used to migrate SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 databases to SQL Azure.
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How Does SOA Relate to Cloud Computing?
A recent session, part of ebizQ's Cloud QCamp, discussed the current state and relationship between cloud computing and SOA. The consensus of the panelists was that the cloud is helping to boost the advantages promised by service orientation to a firmer business footing.
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Business Case For REST
Justin Cormack sparks a discussion about the adoption of RESTful architectures in the enterprise or the lack thereof with his post.
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SproutCore: An HTML 5 Application Framework
InfoQ has reported on SproutCore a couple times in the past and recently learned about the upcoming 1.0 release. SproutCore promises stunning desktop-class applications without plugins inside of the browser.
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Instant Notifications Using Google’s PubSubHubbub Protocol
PubSubHubbub is an “open, server-to-server web-hook-based publish/subscribe protocol as an extension to Atom (and RSS)”. This protocol allows interested parties to get instant notifications when a feed is updated. The protocol was developed by Google and it can be found under the Google Code project with the same name.
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Intalio acquires Webtide, makers of Jetty
Intalio, Inc., the Enterprise Cloud Company, announced the acquisition of Webtide, the team behind the Jetty open source Java application server. Jetty is currently used on millions of web servers, and powers products such as Cisco SESM, Google AppEngine, Google GWT, HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli NetView, Oracle WebLogic Business Connect, Sybase EAServer, and Yahoo! Zimbra.
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Faster Ruby Test Execution With Devver
Devver is a new service that runs your Ruby tests in parallel on their cloud infrastructure. InfoQ talked to Ben Brinckerhoff from Devver to understand how they can speed up your tests.
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New SOA Governance Framework and Service Integration Maturity Model at the Open Group
The Open Group released last week two new industry standards: The Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM) and SOA Governance Framework.
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ADO.NET Entity Framework Providers for Oracle
Microsoft’s vision for .NET is a wide one. In addition to support for all programming languages, MS wants to bring together all communication frameworks and data storage engines. While WCF is making headway for standardizing communication APIs, their universal data access model Entity Framework is lagging behind. Much is this is due to lack of direct vendor support from companies like Oracle.
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The Complex Event Processing Forrester Report
The complex event processing (CEP) space is on the rise. This market is going to grow very quickly and there's increasing interest in these platforms. A new "The Forrester Wave: Complex Event Processing (CEP) Platforms Q3 2009" report evaluates and ranks most popular CEP platforms.