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Request: Sun, Drop Support for JRuby
Rick Hightower requests that Sun drop their support for JRuby in place of Groovy. The community has replied in the form of comments and blog posts to agree with and argue against Rick's position. Another battle in the language wars of 2008.
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WCF Communication Options in the .NET Framework 3.5
David Chappell, Principal of Chappell & Associates, presents the various communication styles provided by Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in his white paper called "Dealing with Diversity: Understanding WCF Communication Options in the .NET Framework 3.5".
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Microsoft: MEDC Cancelled
Microsoft is closing shop on a popular conference targetted at mobile device application developers.
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Agile Kanban: Visual Tracking Beyond the Team Room
In the beginning Agile was largely a developer-driven initiative, sometimes improving development processes only to find the real bottlenecks lay outside developer control. In his latest InfoQ article, Kenji Hiranabe analyses Lean manufacturing's "Kanban" visual tracking tool, how it differs from the Agile taskboard, and how it helps identify more far-reaching improvements.
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Doer vs. Talker: Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation
In Are You a Doer or a Talker? Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror echoes the agile manifesto's 'Valuing working software over comprehensive documentation.' Noting an article by John Taber, Atwood draws parallels between transportation studies and transportation construction projects.
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Rubinius adds Multi-VM support
Rubinius adds a new feature called "Multi-VM", which allows to run multiple Ruby VMs inside an OS process. We talked with Evan Phoenix of the Rubinius project about the benefits and implementation of this feature.
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Specialized Message Patterns for SOA
Adobe have just published a document on SOA message exchange patterns. It also contains a good primer on SOA principles. Duane Nickull, the chair of the OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee, is a co-author, making this well worth a look.
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Is the Proprietary Nature of the Flash Player Keeping You From Using Flex?
Per Olesen published a blog recently entitled, Flash is Still Closed Source and Proprietary Technology, where he argues that Flash is still a proprietary platform.
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JEE 6: Extensibility, Profiles and Pruning
Whilst the public details are still a little sketchy, the general direction of Java EE 6 is becoming apparent and reflects the changing role of the Java EE standard.
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An Agile Developer's Responsibility
What is a developer's responsibility when a customer asks for a quick and dirty solution? Should they listen to the customer and take the short cut because, after all, they are paying the bill? Should they instead always do what is technically the "best" option in their opinion? Or is there a middle road that should be taken?
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Should developers write their own transaction coordination logic?
In a recent discussion Mark Little and Greg Pavlik discuss whether transaction coordinators and transaction protocols are necessary in the context of widely distributed units of work. Isn't the knowledge of state alignment patterns enough?
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JavaFX: Current Status and What’s Upcoming
In October, InfoQ.com published an overview of JavaFX. Sun Microsystem’s Chet Haase followed-up to share additional details with InfoQ.com on what’s to come with the addition of JavaFX to the Java platform.
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The state of the Lambda in Ruby 1.9
One of Ruby 1.9's little additions is a new, more concise way to create lambda functions, amongst some other clarifications in the way Blocks work. We take a look at the changes and the reasons for them.
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Presentation: Leveraging the Web for Services at Yahoo!
In a presentation recorded at QCon, Mark Nottingham, a "Principal Technical Yahoo!", provided some insight into how the Yahoo! Media Group uses the Web, and not Web services, to build its SOA variant. According to Mark, the Yahoo! Media Group gains significant advantages by using HTTP RESTfully, especially by exploiting caching opportunities.
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JPA Frameworks Compared
java.net is hosting an article written by Sharad Acharya titled "Java Persistence Framework: Which, When, and What?" that compares four popular persistence frameworks: CMP Entity EJBs, JPA, Hibernate, and TopLink. Acharya discusses each technology and summarizes his findings in a matrix.