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An Introduction to the Composite Application Library
Microsoft patterns & practices has recently made available the Composite Application Guidance for WPF. A key component of this guidance is the Composite Application Library, a library useful to create composite WPF applications.
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Duck Typing Using Runtime Code Generation
Duck typing techniques can be used in statically typed languages like C#, but it generally requires some tedious reflection code. But seeing the benefit of such techniques, some are turning to it anyways and are developing ways to make it less painful.
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Introducing InfoSphere Mashup Hub from IBM
A mashup is a web application that combines data/functionality from more than one source into a single integrated application. Mashup’s popularity stems from the emphasis on interactive user participation. IBM InfoSphere MashupHub is a new lightweight information management environment for IT and business professionals who wish to use and/or share information for use in mashups.
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Oracle Announces WebLogic Suite
Following their acquisition of BEA Systems, Oracle has announced new company product offerings based on the various technologies carrying the WebLogic brand.
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What Do You Want On Future Browsers? Time to Vote!
An industry wishlist for future browsers has been collected and developed by OpenAjax Alliance. Using wiki as an open collaboration tool and with contributions from many people in the industry, the feature list now lists 37 separate feature requests, covering a wide range of technology areas. OpenAjax Alliance is calling for everyone to vote for his/her favorite features.
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JProbe 8.0: The Java code, memory, and coverage profiler is back
Quest Software recently released JProbe 8.0, a Java code, memory, and coverage profiler. While JProbe has been one of the leading Java profiling tools since the late 1990's, JProbe 8.0 aims to help Quest regain the leadership position in the profiling market with new Eclipse integration and a more competitive price point.
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The Open Group Releases Draft of SOA Ontology Standard
The SOA Working Group contributed to the Open Group a draft version of SOA Ontology 2.0. The standard defines a formal ontology for Service Oriented Architecture. The ontology is written in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and contains classes and properties corresponding to the important concepts of SOA.
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Dime Casts .NET - Learn Something New in 10 Minutes or Less
There is no better way to learn a technology than being able to watch someone teach it to you. A new video podcast has been created to help .NET developers learn about various aspects of .NET development in short, focused segments.
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The Personal Retrospective – Improving Your "Wetware"
Andy Hunt's interview last month talks about his progression from pragmatic programmer to Agile development to his latest interest – Pragmatic Wetware. "Wetware is the stuff in your head. That's the thing between your ears that's really where all the action is – that's where all the software development actually takes place."
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Presentation: Enterprise Batch Processing with Spring
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Wayne Lund discusses batch processing, Spring Batch objectives and features, scenarios for using Spring Batch, Spring Batch infrastructure and architecture, scaling Spring Batch, example Spring Batch code, failures and retrying, the Spring Batch Domain Reference Model and execution environment, and the Spring Batch future roadmap.
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The Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism) Is Available for Download
Microsoft has just released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF-June 2008, also known as Prism.
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Google Releases Open Source Web Application Security Assessment Tool
Google has announced the open source release of "ratproxy" - a passive web application security assessment tool.
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UDDI and the Framework for Web Services Implementation Technical Committees close
OASIS announces that the UDDI and FWSI technical committees have closed and completed their work.
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Flash Content Now Searchable
In Adobe’s continuing push to eliminate the common objections to Flash adoption comes news that SWF files, the binary format for the Flash Player, is now indexable by Google and Yahoo’s search engines. This is important news for application developers using or considering using Adobe Flex, and the resulting applications will now be searchable.
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Presentation: Security (CAS and OpenID) with Ruby
In this presentation from QCon SF 2007, Justin Gehtland explains two open solutions to distributed identity and their Rails integration components: the OpenID system (using ruby-openid) and CAS (using rubycas-client).