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Merge, Replace, or Patch: How Astoria Handles Changing Data
Using REST, what should happen when you perform a PUT operation to update existing data? The Astoria Team asks that question and explains their answer.
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OpenFlux Component Framework for Flex
OpenFlux offers Flex developers an open source component framework based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) Architecture. The library has a set of components that currently includes Buttons, Lists, and ScrollBars. The goal of OpenFlux is to make it easy to “dramatically” customize components within a Flex application, without fear of breaking other parts of the component
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Git/Github Roundup: Ruby Books, Gems, Gitjour
Git and Github's popularity increase steadily in the Ruby space. A few Ruby related book projects are now hosted on Github. Gitjour is a new tool using the Bonjour protocol to distribute git repositories. Finally: Github makes it easy to provide gems of projects.
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New User Story Format Emphasizes Business Value
User stories, a common format for capturing agile requirements, could be more focused on business value. A traditional format for stating a user story is: "As a <type of user> I want <some functionality> so that <some benefit>." A value-centric replacement would be: "In order to <achieve some value>, as a <type of user>, I want <some functionality>."
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Article: Do Java 6 threading optimizations actually work?
Features like biased locking, lock coarsening, lock elision by escape analysis and adaptive spin locking are all designed to increase concurrency by allowing more effective sharing amongst application threads. But do they actually work? In this two part article, Jeroen Borgers explores these features and attempt to answer the performance question with the aid of a single threaded benchmark.
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Agile Practices with the Highest Return on Investment
Return on Investment is a critical factor for decision making pertaining to following a particular software development practice. The post summarizes the ROI benefits of Agile and the inexpensive practices which lead to highest return on investment.
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RAM is the new disk...
Jim Gray, a man who has contributed greatly to technology over the past 40 years, is credited with saying that memory is the new disk and disk is the new tape. With the proliferation of "real-time" web applications and systems that require massive scalability, how are hardware and software relating to this meme?
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The EQATEC Code Profiler v. 1.2 for the .NET Compact Framework Has New Features
InfoQ informed the community about the free EQATEC code profiler for the .NET Compact Framework a month ago. In the meantime, the profiler has been well received by the community, and EQATEC released version 1.2 with new features and bug fixes.
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Railo joins JBoss.org
Swiss software house Railo have announced that they are joining JBoss.org and will be releasing their Java based ColdFusion Markup Language engine for free under the LGPL.
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Interview: Rod Johnson Discusses Spring, OSGi, Tomcat and the Future of Enterprise Java
Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio, the Oracle/BEA and Sun/MySQL acquisitions, Java EE 6, Tomcat and Spring, Spring Dynamic Modules, the future of enterprise Java, the benefits of OSGi for application developers, the Covalent acquisition and Spring 3.0. Johnson also alludes to the SpringSource Application Platform, which was announced a month after this interview was filmed.
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FIT/Fitnesse Fixture Gallery 2.0 Released
Gojko's Fixture Gallery is a cookbook for FIT/Fitnesse fixtures and version 2.0 has been released with Java, C# and Python code samples.
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Composing SCA Solutions and SCA’s Approach to Policy and Bindings Presentations
SCA continues to gain momentum, becoming a dominant SOA programming model adopted by many commercial SOA products. Several recently published presentations explain capabilities, inner working and usage of SCA.
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Interview : Nate Kohari on Releasing Ninject 1.0
In this interview with Nate Kohari, creator of the Ninject dependency injection container for .NET, talks about the release of version 1.0 of Ninject. The interview has taken place over the past weeks leading up to the release of Ninject 1.0.
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Agile Business Intelligence
Large centrally designed BI systems often don't meet the expectations of their end users. In this article at Cutter IT journal Scott Ambler has written about using Agile methods to help meet the user's expectations and deliver business value quickly.
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Distributed Caching with JBoss Cache: Q&A with Manik Surtani
JBoss Cache is an enterprise-grade clustering solutions for Java-based applications, that aims to provide high availability and dramatically improve performance by caching frequently accessed Java objects. In this post InfoQ has a round-up interview with project lead Manik Surtani.