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Presentation: Building RESTful Web Services with Erlang and YAWS
In this presentation recorded at QCon SF 2008, Steve Vinoski shows how to create RESTful web services using YAWS and Erlang. The presentation introduces YAWS and offers YAWS-Erlang code snippets on how to implement REST principles.
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Flex: Engine Yard's New Cloud Offering
Engine Yard announced Flex at this year's Rails Conf. Flex runs on Amazon's EC2, but unlike its smaller brother Solo, Flex scales over more than one instance. We talked to Michael Mullany, VP of Marketing at Engine Yard to get more information.
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Presentation: Transforming Software Architecture with Web as Platform
This session takes a comprehensive look the "Web as Platform," including implications for software architecture design and innovations and ideas that are just now being fully appreciated. Hinchcliffe offers a far ranging, but focuses discussion of system design and the discipline and practice of software architecture; information, that architects and technical leads must know.
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jsFiction Releases jsDraw2D Javascript Library
jsFiction announces the release of a 2D javascript graphics library, jsDraw2D - a pure JavaScript library to draw 2D graphics on web pages inside web browser without using SVG or VML. In addition to basic shapes (e.g. polygon, circle, arc), the developer can also create Bezier curves (linear, quadratic, cubic), set origins, and set scaling.
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Dynamic Endpoint Discovery for WCF 4.0
In a disaster and recovery scenario, you don’t want to waste time with your client applications trying to get them to hooked up to the backup server. You just want them to find the active server and just use it. With WCF 4.0 and dynamic endpoint discovery, that becomes possible.
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Hasso Plattner Touts Highly Parallel Computing and Column-Oriented Databases
In his keynote at Sapphire 2009, Hasso Plattner, co-founder of SAP, explained that he sees multi-cores, and in memory column-oriented databases in the future of enterprise applications.
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Article: Where To Now With Build Automation
Most developers nowadays are familiar with the basic tenets of Continuous Integration, but arguably only a small proportion of these are fully benefiting from an optimized CI set up. This article, by John Smart of Atlassian, discusses Continuous Integration practices that can take CI beyond merely being a glorified cron job and make it an effective, productivity-enhancing hub for development.
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MindTouch 2009 Includes Publishing from MS Desktop Applications
MindTouch announces the ability to publish content from any Microsoft Desktop application to its collaborative industrial wiki. New user functionality includes: one-click publishing from any MS application and in-place editing of Microsoft Office. The new functionality is delivered as, Aurelia Reporter, Desktop Connector, and MS Word and MS Outlook connectors.
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Google Releases New Version Of Protocol Buffers
Google released a new version of protocol buffers – a language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible way of serializing structured data for use in communications protocols, data storage, and more.
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Panel: Surviving the Downturn
A panel of hard core developers, including Ted Neward and Jeffrey Palermo, assembled at TechEd 2009 has discussed the current economic difficult times and expressed their opinion on what a developer needs to do to remain employed.
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The Open Group SOA Source Book
Last month the Open Group made available their SOA Source Book. They describe it as “a collection of source material produced by the SOA Working Group for use by enterprise architects working with Service-Oriented Architecture”
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Interview: Joseph Yoder on Adaptive Object Model Architecture
In this interview Joseph Yoder talks about the Adaptive Object Model (AOM) architecture, a software architecture for easily adapting to changing business requirements.
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OpenJDK Governance Board's Life is Extended Despite Lack of Delivery
In the two years since its creation, the OpenJDK Governance Board has failed to deliver the Constitution for the OpenJDK Community which it was set-up to produce, and two of the seven positions on the board have never been filled. Despite this Sun Microsystems has now extended the life of the board for another twelve months as it switches focus back to constitutional issues.
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REST, Silverlight, and the New York Times
In a effort to remain relevant in the increasingly difficult news industry, the New York Times has built a REST-based API through the Times Developer Network. To complement this they also teamed up with Microsoft to provide a Silverlight-based toolkit for developers.
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Best Practices for RESTful JSON Web Services
Edwin Khodabakchian, ex-Collaxa and BPEL guru, has written up his team's experiences of using JSON+REST as an alternative to XML+SOAP. He covers 7 different phases so far and gives a very practical guide on the do's and don'ts.