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ORM Profiling Tools for the .NET Platform
Sadly the terms “ORM” and “performance problems” often travel together. By hiding the underlying SQL from the developers, ORMs can offer a huge productivity boost. Unfortunately they also make it easy to generate ridiculously bad queries without realizing it. And without stored procedures to cross reference, finding the offending code without an ORM-specific profiler can be quite tricky.
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Duby and Surinx, an Interview With Charles Nutter
Charles Nutter talks about his two new languages for the JVM: Duby and its dynamic cousin Surinx.
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Microsoft Enters the Biotech Market with a Truly Open Source Project
Microsoft Biology Foundation is a collection of libraries build on the .NET framework and based on traditional open source traditions. Rather than reinvent the wheel, Microsoft is leveraging the file formats already found in bioinformatics community. Even more unusual for them, they are soliciting contributions to be added to future versions of MBF.
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Beta 2 Brings Refinements to .NET’s Coordination Data Structures Library
Coordination Data Structures (CDS) is designed both to be used directly and to act as the building blocks for more complex concurrency frameworks. It includes advanced synchronization tools like the Barrier, several thread-safe collections, and a couple different ways to create futures.
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ScrumBan - Evolution or Oxymoron?
Kanban workshops, courses and conferences are springing up, and practicing Agilists are investigating what this method, adapted from Lean, offers their teams. Attractive benefits are cited, from revealing bottlenecks to happy teams experiencing more "flow". But thought leaders warn that Kanban's laid back approach is "kryptonite" to Scrum's call to resolve impediments immediately.
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Microsoft is Dropping Code Access Security in .NET 4.0
In .NET 4.0, Microsoft is replacing .NET’s Code Access Security (CAS) with a new security model inspired by Silverlight. This rather than complex link demands, code is categorized into three easy to understand levels with partially trusted code being unable to call fully trusted code except via carefully designed gateway functions.
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Google Works on a Protocol Intended to Replace HTTP
Google proposes SPDY, a new application protocol running on top of SSL, a protocol to replace HTTP which is considered to introduce latencies. They have already created a prototype with a web server and an enhanced Chrome browser that supposedly loads web pages twice as fast.
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RESTfulie - A Gem To Create Hypermedia Aware Services And Clients
Guilherme Silveira writes to InfoQ on the release of a ruby gem that makes developing hypermedia aware services and clients that consume them a breeze.
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The Top 10 SOA Myths Revisited
In his recent post, Joe McKendrick lists the top 10 SOA myths as presented by Gartner’s Yefim Natis at the ebizQ “SOA in Action” event and containing misconceptions of both SOA proponents and opponents.
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Introducing the Task Parallel Library’s new Cancellation Framework
Task Parallel Library, .NET 4.0’s replacement for ThreadPool, got a face lift for beta 2. In addition to performance improvements, it The most important change is probably the new cancellation framework that replaces parent/child relationships with cancellation tokens that can be freely given to logical groups of tasks.
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EU Issues Formal Statement of Objections to Oracle's Acquisition of Sun
The European Commission has issued a formal statement of objections over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, which are limited to Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Oracle however remains confident that the deal will eventually be approved.
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Creating Facebook Applications in WPF, Silverlight, WinForms, and ASP.NET with Facebook SDK 3.0
Clarity Consulting Inc. and Microsoft have released Facebook SDK 3.0, a toolkit allowing developers to write WPF, Silverlight, WinForms or ASP.NET applications integrated with Facebook.
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Oracle Announced Plans for the Future of Sun’s Products, but Raised Concerns about NetBeans
Oracle has released an FAQ that describes its plans for the future of popular Sun technologies like GlassFish, NetBeans, MySQL and more. In some cases Oracle’s announcement is unclear and raises concerns about product viability.
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Working with VBA and Visual Studio Tools for Office
Visual Basic for Applications is a dead-end and Visual Studio for Applications isn’t ready for prime time, leaving developers in the uncomfortable position of trying to mix .NET code with legacy VBA macros. Fortunately Visual Studio Tools for Office makes it relatively painless.
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Metrics for Ruby With Caliper
Caliper calculates various metrics – for example code duplication and complexity – for your Ruby code; all you need is a public Git repository.