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  • Holly Widgets for GTK#

    Last weekend a developer on the GTK# mailing list announced version 1.0 of a collection of widgets for Mono.

  • Nexaweb contributes code to the Dojo JavaScript Toolkit

    Nexaweb has contributed new software to the Dojo Foundation that aims to advance the use of open source AJAX technology within a company's critical business applications. The software, dubbed 'dojo.E' is a set of extensions to the Dojo Toolkit, that bring XML into Dojo components and a new API for managing DOM modifications based on user interaction.

  • Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework June 2008 CTP Released

    Microsoft has just released the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework June 2008 CTP.

  • Discussion: Leaner Tools To Better Prepare Undergrads?

    Greg Wilson challenged the aa-ftt community to support efforts to improve college graduates ability to deliver "product-quality code". Wilson's request primarily involves providing simplified versions of the tools used by professionals, such that they're digestible by undergraduate students.

  • Do Language Specific Libraries Belong in .NET?

    There is a lot of basic functionality the .NET platform does not provide. For example, there is no built-in way to read CSV files, copy directories, or work with zip files. Well actually there is, but only if you dig deep enough.

  • First Public Release of Impala Provides Dynamic Modules for Spring

    Impala is an open source framework which aims to provide a dynamic module system for Spring-based web applications without requiring OSGi.

  • Handling Multiple Versions in a Single Project Team?

    Once you're team has released the first version of a product you're faced with the dilemma - how to maintain the first version while continuing to make progress on new releases.

  • SOA Governance Revisited

    Despite increased adoption, many of the SOA projects are still failing Things are often getting so bad that in a recent SOA was called "Dead on Arrival". One of the ways to improve this situation is proper SOA governance.

  • Exadel’s Flamingo Project for Rapid Flex and Java Development

    Exadel’s Flamingo project is a tool for bootstrapping RIA applications built with Java backends. The tool offers support for both Seam and Spring in the middle tier. On the presentation tier, Flamingo supports both Flex and JavaFX. The tool has a similar approach to bootstrapping applications as the AppFuse project available for more traditional Java web tier frameworks.

  • Presentation: Configuring the Spring Container

    In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Framework. Topics covered include the philosophy behind Spring, configuring the Spring container, XML configuration, new XML configuration namespaces, Annotation-based configuration, automatic component annotation scanning, Spring JavaConfig, mixing configuration types, and Spring 2.5 new features.

  • IcedTea Bridges Open-Source Gap with OpenJDK

    It has been over a year since OpenJDK was officially released by Sun. The IcedTea project has been created to help remove encumbrances in its adoption by the open-source community.

  • The Simple Solution to SOA is ESBs?

    A recent ebizQ podcast with IBM's Lief Davidsen discusses how ESBs can be used as the simple solution to adopting SOA. The "should I or shouldn't I?" debate around the relationship between ESB and SOA has raged for a while and this interview will probably not be the final word.

  • Principles and Guidelines for an Optimized Use of BigTable

    Based on a number of conversations around Google App Engine, Todd Hoff outlined on his blog a set of principles that are instrumental for optimizing the use of distributed and highly scalable storage systems, such as BigTable, and defining its perimeter. The conceptual approach he advocates for is radically different from the one used in relational database world.

  • Presentation: Painless Persistence with Castle ActiveRecord

    This presentation by Hamilton Verissimo and Oren Eini show Castle Active Record - an ORM solution for .NET building on NHibernate. After an introduction, the presentation dives into various advanced topics and techniques for working with Castle Active Record.

  • IzPack: Cross-Platform Installer Not Just For Java

    Packaging, distributing and deploying an application can be a very difficult task. Add in the requirement to work on multiple platforms and it can quickly become a nightmare. IzPack aims to not only make it possible but to also make it simple.

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