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SOA Grammar – Are Services Verbs or Nouns?
In his new post, Jason Bloomberg introduces two types of services – Entities and Tasks, and explains the role each type of services plays in building SOA systems.
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Helios Uses Satellite Kernels to Deal with Heterogeneous Environments
Helios is a Microsoft research OS project intended to ease the process of writing applications for heterogeneous environments by using satellite kernels. The researchers involved are: Edmund B. Nightingale, Orion Hodson, Ross McIlroy, Chris Hawblitzel, and Galen Hunt, and they published the paper Helios: Heterogeneous Multiprocessing with Satellite Kernels (PDF).
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NewRelic RPM 2 Adds Java Support for Performance Monitoring
NewRelic just released RPM 2, the latest version of their performance monitoring software. RPM, which is available as SaaS (Software as a Service) now supports monitoring Java web/JEE applications as well as Ruby on Rails applications. We talked to NewRelic's Lew Cirne about the new release.
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MacRuby 0.5 Beta Brings JIT, AOT, GCD Support, Removes GIL
The first beta of MacRuby 0.5 is available, complete with a new VM, JIT and AOT - and without the GIL. InfoQ talked to the MacRuby core team about the state of MacRuby and whether there'll be a way to write Ruby apps for the iPhone using MacRuby.
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SOA Consortium Rebrands To Bridge The Business And IT Gap
Bridging the gap between business and IT has always been a pipe dream for many SOA initiatives. According to the Business Ecology Initiative; whose purpose is to refocus such initiatives from a technology and data oriented perspective to one that is optimized for business benefits, processes, and roles; nurturing business driven IT, is the only way bridge this gap and create a business ecosystem.
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Accessing Wolfram|Alpha’s Knowledge Through Webservice API
Wolfram|Alpha now has a Webservice API which can be used by web applications, desktop or mobile, to query the Wolfram|Alpha engine.
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PostSharp 2.0 Makes Aspect-Oriented Programming Easier with IDE Support
One of the biggest complaints about aspect-oriented programming is that is makes it hard to know what the compiled code will actually look like. When looking at source code, developers invariably ask, “What aspects affect this?” For .NET developers, PostSharp has the answer.
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Bundle.update: the Current State of OSGi
It's been a month since OSGi 4.2 was released. What's been happening in the OSGi space since then?
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IntelliJ Goes Open Source
Today Jetbrains announced the creation of an open source community edition of IntelliJ as well as a new commercial Ultimate Edition.
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Embed Python, Ruby, and XAML directly into your HTML with Gestalt
JavaScript is a language that is showing its age. A lot of developers now prefer to work with languages like Ruby or Python, falling back on JavaScript only for the browser. Sure there were attempts to support other languages in the browser like VBScript, but they never really took off. Well Microsoft is trying again, this time with Python and Ruby.
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Solving SOA Problems by Merging It with WOA
In his new article, Dion Hinchcliffe, assesses the current state of SOA, focusing on issues, slowing SOA adoption. He also suggests leveraging WOA approaches to improve its current state.
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The 'Agile Developer Skills Workshop' Is Underway
Having a means to fairly and reliable assess the skills of agile developers has been a hot topic for quite some time. The 'Agile Developer Skills Workshop', led by Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson, is now entering its 2nd day of trying to produce a real solution to the problem.
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Java EE 6 Proposed Final Draft Hints at Future Direction of the Platform
The Proposed Final Draft of the Java EE 6 Platform adds standardised dependency injection and bean validation for the platform, and introduces a new specification for managed beans providing a clear indication of the future direction of the platform.
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New Features and Performance Improvements for System.IO
Microsoft is planning some simple but much welcomed performance improvements for the core System.IO functionality. These include convenience methods for reading and writing text-based files, significantly faster directory enumeration, and support for memory mapped files.
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MySpace Explains How They Use the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime
Currently MySpace is using CCR on 1,200 middle-tier caching servers, 3,000 web servers, and countless other related projects. In a Channel 9 interview, Principal Architect Erik Nelson and Senior Architect Akash Patel explain how CCR fits into MySpace’s core architecture.