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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.
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Avoid JaBoWS as the Basis for your Enterprise SOA
Nick Malik declares JaBoWS (Just a Bunch of Web Services) are the enemy of Enterprise SOA.
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New Resources for the Software Architecture
Several new resources are available for the software architect. Simon Brown and Kevin Seal have made available a set of guidelines for creating software architecture documentation. Mike Kavis also put together a framework to help guide the architect in dealing with the change that new architecture can bring.
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Office Open XML SDK to be Released Soon
Microsoft has announced that it will release the OOXML SDK despite the fact that ISO did not approve OOXML as an open standard last September.
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Article: Addressing Doubts about REST
InfoQ SOA lead editor Stefan Tilkov addresses 10 of the most common doubts people have about REST when they start exploring it, especially if they have a strong background in the architectural approach behind SOAP/WSDL-based Web services.
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Software Transactions: A Programming Language Perspective
Erlang has recently generated a lot of interest as a language that can deal both efficiently and elegantly with concurrency. In particular, there is no shared memory between "process" instances which only communicate via asynchronous messages. Nevertheless, Shared Memory Concurrency remains an intense research subject especially for multicore applications.
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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.
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Planned Features For EJB 3.1
The EJB 3.1 expert group recently released an early draft of the specification, containing some significant new features as well as a continued simplification of the EJB programming model.
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OASIS Symposium: Composability within SOA
OASIS is going to hold a 3 day symposium on the topic of "Composability within SOA" in Santa Clara, CA from April 28th to April 30th. Engineers and Scientists from vendors and end-user companies will discuss topics including mashups, Service-Oriented Ajax, SCA, BPEL, SDO, BPM, Web Service Transactions, Data Security in SOA, SOA Reference Architecture...
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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'.
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Integrating Flex 3.0 and RabbitMQ Using STOMP
Derek Wischusen shared his experiment that integrating RabbitMQ with a Flex 3 using an ActionScript 3 STOMP client. It's a demonstration of messaging oriented RIA application concept.
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Creating a RESTful API with WCF
Aaron Sloman and Haider Sabri gave a talk about "Creating a RESTful API with WCF" at MIX08 introducing a sample REST application called RESTChess.
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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.
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As-a-Service Approaching Parity with Traditional Offerings
"as-a-Service" offerings are approaching parity with the more traditional software models on the market. Recent developments from both new and well established vendors in areas such as SaaS applications, infrastructure, cloud computing, development tools, runtime platforms, and configuration have increased the functionality, and perhaps the acceptance, of "as-a-Service" among more clients.
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The Buzz on SQL Server 2008 CTP6
Community Technology Preview 6 has been in developer's hands for almost a month.