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Presentation: Intentional Software
Business users doing programming? Charles Simonyi and Henk Kolk presents how Intentional Software offers a radical new software approach that separates business knowledge from software engineering knowledge, which means that business experts can be more innovative and responsive to the changes in the domain.
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Architecture of a $7 Billion Loss: Causes and Remedies
PWC just released a report detailing the mechanisms that enabled a trader to mask a $75 B position. He was able to manipulate the state of a system by entering fake "technical" transactions used for simulations even though their amount was unusual, his role was not authorized to do so, and they were not later compensated. PWC also provided their recommendations to fix the systems and processes.
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ActiveMQ 5.1 Supports JMS Destination Monitoring and MSMQ Bridge
Apache ActiveMQ, an open source provider of enterprise messaging services, recently released version 5.1 which includes improvements in stability and performance of the message broker. This version also includes support for destination monitoring, priority message ordering and a Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) to ActiveMQ Bridge with the new msmq transport component.
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Windows Communication Foundation: Application Deployment Scenarios
Microsoft has just published an excellent overview of WCF capabilities and deployment strategies for 5 most common SOA scenarios including Enterprise Web services, Web 2.0 services, intranet applications, queued messaging and Workflow services.
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JSR-292 Early Draft Review Announced
The early draft review of JSR-292 has been released. JSR-292 defines the 'invokedynamic' instruction, a bytecode instruction to assist in the implementation of dynamic languages on JVM.
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Debate and more Insights on Dynamic vs. Static Languages
The transcript of Steve Yegge’s presentation on dynamic languages in Stanford University, which he posted on his blog, triggered many reactions in the blog sphere. Cedric Beust, Ted Neward, Ola Beni and Greg Young provided their viewpoints and arguments on different tradeoffs involved in dynamic vs. static debate.
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Will Polyglotism and DSLs make Java the Last Big Language?
Ola Bini argues that the world will not have a new big language again because developers will find value in choosing different languages depending on their problem domain. Similarly Martin Folwer says that programmers will choose a language for what it can do in the same way that they choose frameworks now. On the other hand Joe Winchester debates that you can only be master of one language.
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Google App Engine public load test today
Today, at 4PM GMT+2 (in about an hour), there is a public load test on the Google App Toolkit. Can Google Web Toolkit and Google App Engine handle the InfoQ effect?
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Are Business Analysts Ready to Become Programmers?
Microsoft seems to think so as they prepare to deliver on the Oslo vision. Back in November 2007 Doug Purdy made a veiled reference to a new project in development calling it "Emacs.NET". This fueled rampant speculation far from the intended mark.
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What Social Networks Are Teaching Us About Data Portability
As more social networking sites are popping up, the questions around the data they keep are rising. Data portability has become the watch phrase across the Web 2.0 world. Is there something to be learned about data access and portability from these services?
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Firefox 3 RC1 Adds Javascript 1.8, Microformat Support and More
The Mozilla project has released Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). New features in Firefox 3 include support for Javascript 1.8, DOM and HTML changes, microformats support, and an extended Canvass implementation.
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Microsoft Enterprise Libarary 4.0 Released for Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft released a version of their Enterprise Library 4.0 for Visual Studio 2008 and at the same time, Unity 1.1 application block, their dependency injection container.
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XRI versus URI?
The XSI technical committee is attempting to standardize the 2.0 version of their specification. After 3 years, the W3C is still not convinced about the need for yet another URI scheme. With one of the original intentions behind XRI (Web Services and more "complex" objects on the Web) clearly not in need of XRI, is this a standard too far?
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InfoQ China Colour Scheme Goes Gray in Consideration of Earthquake Victims
As China began a three-day official mourning period from May 19th for victims of the May 12 earthquake that happened in Sichuan Province in southwestern China, InfoQ China joined other tech sites and on Monday and changed the whole site's colour scheme to gray as an act to express its mourning.
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Article: Scalability Principles
At the simplest level, scalability is about doing more of something. This could be responding to more user requests, executing more work or handling more data. This article presents some principles and guidelines for building scalable software systems.