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Jon Udell joins Microsoft
Jon Udell will leave InfoWorld and its Test Center to join Microsoft. He will be joining the Channel 10 team to bridge the gap between "alpha geeks" and the mainstream civilization.
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InfoQ Book: Domain Driven Design Quickly
Despite the importance of Domain Driven Design, not many people are aware of it, which is why InfoQ commissioned the writing of a 100 page mini-book: Domain Driven Design Quickly. Like all InfoQ books is available for free download as well as print-purchase. The book is a short, quickly-readable summary and introduction to the fundamentals of DDD.
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FioranoMQ Service Pack 3 released claiming 20% performance improvement
FioranoMQ Service Pack 3 was released today, offering significant performance improvements and increased robustness via improved diagnostics and JMS APIs for server monitoring.
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Rod Johnson: 2006 the year Spring became Ubiquitous
Rod Johnson kicked off the opening keynote of The Spring Experience conference declaring that 2006 was year Spring became ubiquitous. Rod cited a number of notable large scale Spring deployments, and also reviewed the events that drove Spring adoption in 2006.
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Visual Studio for Database Professionals Released
Microsoft has developed what they call "tools for building SQL databases in a managed project environment with support for versioning, deployment, unit testing, refactoring, and off-line SQL development." These tools, released under the name Visual Studio for Database Professionals, claim to offer a way to develop databases in the same off-line fashion as traditional applications.
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Rubinius Surges Ahead
Geoff Grosenbach, host of the Ruby on Rails podcast and the producer of the Peepcode series of instructional videos, announced that he is backing development of the Rubinius Project to the tune of 1000 USD and encouraged the community to donate more towards its development.
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InfoQ Interview: Stefan Tilkov on SOA
In this interview, Stefan Tilkov talks about his views about SOA, including the definition and role of SOA in general, different styles of implementing it, its applications in the real world, and the role of ESBs. Stefan consults on SOA with the Fortune 1000 and has very practical views on the matter.
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ASMX or WCF Web Services?
Since version 1, ASP.NET has supported web services via the ASMX files. With .NET 3.0 and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), you have an entirely new way to expose and consume web services. So do you convert to WCF or leave everything as ASMX? Thom Robbins' answer is to just do both.
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Registration now open for QCon London; 230 GBP off until Dec 20
Registration is now open for QCon, the new annual enterprise software development conference happening March 12-16, 2007, in London, UK. Recently, Martin Fowler, Dave Thomas (of the Pragmatic Programmer series), and Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels have committed to presenting, and all the conference tracks have been added. Registrants can save 230 GBP until Dec 20.
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WPF-E Announced
Yesterday Microsoft released the first community technology preview of WPF/E and Scott Guthrie announced it on his blog. WPF/E provides a small client-side runtime that currently support Windowsand Mac OSX. For browser support, WPF/E can run in both the FireFox and Safari web browsers providing support beyond the Internet Explorer browser.
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Lead Kaffe developer Dalibor Topic discusses OpenJDK
Dalibor Topic, lead Kaffe developer and Classpath contributor, was recently interviewed about the decision by Sun to open-source Java. He talks about how he is pleased with Sun's decision and how they're implementing it and how he thinks that Kaffe, GCJ, etc will continue to thrive.
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Opinion: How to Tell Whether to Fire your Enterprise Architect
David Linthicum suggests there's a huge difference between "the traditional enterprise architecture crowd" and those who assess the value of SOA. He recommends a company might be in need of a new Enterprise Architect if they don't assess the value of SOA correctly.
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IONA Announces Celtix Enterprise
IONA has announced Celtix Enterprise, its ESB offering based on open source products. InfoQ talked to IONA's CTO, Eric Newcomer, about the technical aspects of the release as well as the business implications.
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InfoQ Article: Mark Baker on "The Lost Art of Separating Concerns"
In a short article, Mark Baker claims the default approach to SOA development fails to properly separate concerns, and describes how this is different in Web architecture.
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SQL Server Best Practices Website
Mark Souza of Microsoft has announced a new web site for database administrators and developers called SQL Server - Best Practices. This site offers a wide range of material from top 10 lists suitable for novices to the in-depth technical white papers needed by seasoned professionals.