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Static Analysis Tools Roundup: Roodi, Rufus, Reek, Flay
Ruby_parser, ParseTree, and it's cleaned up output UnifiedRuby, provide access to Ruby source code ASTs. We take a look at four static analysis tools built in plain Ruby: Flay, Roodi, Rufus, Reek.
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Mono: Going Beyond the Standard
The Mono team is perpetually playing catch-up to Microsoft. That's the party line, but is it still true? Recent advances suggest Mono may soon be challenging Microsoft on its own turf.
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Scrum Certification Test
On many occasions various members of the agile community have complained that the Scrum Certification is meaningless because almost everyone who takes the class gets a certificate. As of Jan 1. 2009 that will no longer be the case.
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The Ioke JVM Language: The power of Lisp and Ruby with an intuitive syntax
Ola Bini, a core JRuby developer and author of the book Practical JRuby on Rails Projects, has been developing a new language for the JVM called Ioke. This strongly typed, extremely dynamic, prototype based object oriented language aims to give developers the same kind of power they get with Lisp and Ruby, combined with a nice, small, regular syntax.
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Apache Lucene and Lucene.Net – Full Text Search Servers
Ten years ago, relying on open source projects was unimaginable in most Windows shops. These days, .NET programmers are awakening to the world of enterprise class software developed and proven on the Java platform. Today we look at the popular Full Text search engines, Apache Lucene and Lucene.Net.
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Microsoft Joins AMQP Working Group
Microsoft Corp. joined the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Working Group, an organization focused on the development of the AMQP specification.
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InfoQ Brazil Launches
InfoQ Brazil (http://www.infoq.com/br) is now officially launched! All InfoQ daily news & articles will be translated henceforth, with additional local news, articles, and videos produced by the Brazilian community on an ongoing basis. InfoQ Brazil launched officially this weekend, and has already gotten over 6700 pageviews in the last couple of days.
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Reporter's Notebook: What I learned from PDC
The watch-word isn't "cloud computing" or "scalability", it's trust. For all the cool stuff surrounding Windows Azure, literally no one on the floor was talking about actually using it. Even for products that can be partially hosted in-house like Mesh people are saying "Cool, but I can never use it".
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Spring Integration RC1 hatched: Q&A with Iwein Fuld on key benefits, deployment & future directions
Spring Integration provides an extension of the Spring programming model to support the well-known Enterprise Integration Patterns. Following the announcement of RC 1 that became available this week InfoQ has a Q&A with SpringSource’s Iwein Fuld on key benefits, deployment scenarios and future directions of Spring Integration.
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Is WOA Phony?
The WOA debate continues with analysts and consultants joining the fray with twi online polls that try to evaluate how much the term means to the community. Is it the future or is it just another flash-in-the-pan?
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Restlet 1.1.0: Improved Flexibility and Specification Support
Restlet 1.1.0 has been released with a number of improvements, including support for the JAX-RS RESTful web-services specification, the WADL specification, Grizzly NIO connectors, as well as several other new features. InfoQ spoke to the project lead.
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JavaServer Faces 2.0 Composite Components
The JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.0 expert group have released Draft 2 for JSF 2.0. This introduces a composite component model based on the Facelets approach which greatly simplifies the building of custom components with the standard Java EE web framework.
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Visual Basic 10: Rounding the Edges
Like C# 4, VB 10 isn't going to see a lot of ground breaking features. Everything so far was already available, just not in a convenient form. So this release is very much just rounding off the rough edges.
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ADO.NET Data Services Is About to Go Offline
ADO.NET Data Services, previously known as Project Astoria, will receive offline capabilities in the near future. That means applications could be developed to synchronize their data, then use it in an offline fashion.
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The Architecture of Multi-Enterprise Business Applications
Jack Greenfield gave a presentation at the last PDC on the architecture of Multi-Enterprise Business Applications. He sees MEBAs as being applicable to a large number of industries and processes. In the presentation he introduced a MEBA model-driven framework that his team has set out to build.