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Zed Shaw and Matt Pelletier Decide if Rails is Enterprise Ready
Zed Shaw and Matt Pelletier sat down with InfoQ's Obie Fernandez at RailsConf to explore some of the reasoning behind setting up the mongrel project, getting adoption in enterprise and dealing with developers who just aren't ready. Watch the interview to find out how much Shaw's Enterprise Mongrel product will cost, where the support contracts are and who'll come out on top when the vultures land.
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Jim Webber on "Guerilla SOA"
In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Jim Webber, ThoughtWorks SOA practice leader talks to Stefan Tilkov about Guerilla SOA, a lightweight approach to SOA that does not rely on big middleware products, a message-oriented architectural style called MEST and its differences to REST, and the SOAP Service Description Language (SSDL).
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Patrick Linskey discusses OpenJPA and the JPA specification
At The Spring Experience conference, InfoQ caught up with Patrick Linskey of BEA to discuss the current status of the Apache OpenJPA project. Linskey explains where OpenJPA came from, how it fits into the Object\Relational Mapping space, the differentiating features that OpenJPA provides, the JPA specification, and future plans for OpenJPA.
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Overview on Workflow Foundation
Workflow Foundation is a new workflow engine from Microsoft. Microsoft is embedding Worfklow Foundation in many of its products like Office 2007, Windows Vista and soon Biztalk itself. Matt Winkler, Microsoft Technical Evangelist, walks through the story of Workflow Foundation, when to use it and the futures planned in the next version.
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Anne Thomas Manes on SOA, Governance and REST
In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Anne Thomas Manes, research director at Burton Group, talks to Stefan Tilkov about the state of SOA, explains different ways of getting funding for SOA initiatives, the value of SOA governance and governance tools. Another topic covered is the applicability of REST to SOA, the need for a RESTful description language, and REST support in SOAP toolkits.
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Chris Anderson on WPF
Chris Anderson one of the chief architects of Windows Presentation Foundation recently published "Essential Windows Presentation Foundation" and since this interview moved to the Connected Systems team at Microsoft. Chris provides insight as to why Microsoft created WPF, the development practices used by the development team and why he thinks WPF is a tipping point for Model Driven Development.
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Spring Web Flow with Keith Donald
Keith Donald goes in depth on Spring Web Flow, which solves the problem of orchestrating control navigations within a web application in Spring MVC, Struts, and JSF. Keith talks about how to design workflows in web apps and technical details such as how the flows are fault tolerant and how they integrate into web frameworks.
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Rich Kilmer on the Power of Ruby
Top rubyist Rich Kilmer gives InfoQ visitors an eye-opening look into his years of success using Ruby to tackle tough defense-related challenges at Darpa. Our interview covers a wide range of cutting-edge technologies from DSLs to Semantic Web technologies such as OWL, to using Flash as a front-end UI framework.
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OSGi & Spring In-depth with Adrian Colyer
Adrian Colyer goes in-depth on OSGi, its uses, future impact on the industry, and how Spring will make development with OSGi easier. Adrian talks about how OSGi may change the definition of an application server and JSR 277 vs. OSGi. According to Adrian, OSGi is going to change the deployment and run time model for enterprise applications.
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Interview: Erik Saltwell on Expression Web
In this InfoQ interview, Erik Saltwell talks about Expression Web and the role of professional designers in the application development process. Erik shares insights into the development process his team utilizes, trends in the web development world and more.
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Erik Meijer on LINQ
LINQ creator Erik Meijer talks about the design and capabilities of LINQ, how to use it, why to use it, how it differs from XQuery, how it addresses ORM, extension methods, EDM, and more.
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Ezra Zygmuntowicz on Engine Yard and Rails Deployment
InfoQ has an exclusive chat with one of the original gurus of Rails deployment: Ezra Zygmuntowicz. We discuss his current venture, EngineYard, and the future of Rails. His book on Rails Deployment is due from Pragmatic Programmers in June 2007.
