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Microsoft Releases JavaScript Compatibility Study for IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari
Historically JavaScript compatibility has been a major problem for web developers. Variations between the official spec, the de-facto standard, and the various implementations have kept many a developer up all night. To address this, Microsoft has released a document detailing these incompatibilities in the four most popular browsers.
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RSpec Adds Eagerly-Awaited RBehave Functionality for Integration Testing
RSpec is a Behaviour-Driven Development acceptance testing framework for Ruby or Java that enables developers to turn acceptance specifications from the business into executable examples of expected behaviour. Dan North built a separate extension, RBehave, to express story-level integration tests with RSpec. David Chelimsky has now incorporated RBehave-like functionality into the RSpec trunk.
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A Comparative Clarification: Microformats vs. RDF
James Simmons posted on the Semantic Focus blog and Johannes la Poutré on the Squio blog had a web discussion on the differentiation between Microformats and RDF as they relate to the semantic web. While they both agree that RDF and Microformats are very different, they have a very different take on how that impacts their respective relevance to the semantic web.
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JNBridge releases two new JMS Adapters for Microsoft .NET and BizTalk Server
Today JNBridge, one of the leading suppliers of Java/.NET interoperability tools for software developers, announced the release of two new Java Messaging Services (JMS) Adapters for the Microsoft .NET platform.
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Oslo: Microsoft Takes Composite Applications to the Mainstream
Microsoft unveiled this morning a vision and roadmap to simplify SOA, bridge software + services and take composite applications to the mainstream. The code name of this effort is “Oslo”.
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Debate: Why are most large-scale websites not written in Java?
Nati Shalom of GigaSpaces recently asked why most large-scale websites were written in languages other than Java. This question touched off a large debate in the Java community, and InfoQ took the opportunity to learn more about the major viewpoints surrounding this issue.
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Should you be using RELAX-NG?
10 reasons to consider using RELAX-NG in place of W3C XML Schemas as your XML schema language.
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New Code Analysis Tool FxCop Beta: 200 bug fixes, anonymous methods support
With over 200 bug fixes and performance improvements, this beta is what many FxCop users have been clamoring for. FXCop checks .NET managed code assemblies for conformance to the Microsoft .NET Framework Design Guidelines. Beyond basic library design and naming convention checks, FxCop is especially valuable in pointing out globalization, interoperability, and security issues.
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Pattie Maes on Ambient Intelligence
At OOPSLA 2007, Pattie Maes gave an interesting talk about the MIT ambient intelligence projects. One project, ReachMedia, was particularly interesting from an architectural, mashup and social networking perspective.
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Mozilla Labs announces Prism
On Friday, Mozilla Labs’ announced Prism, their entry into the budding market-trend of platforms for running web applications on the desktop, similar to Adobe AIR.
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Interview: Jay Fields and Zak Tamsen on Domain Specific Languages
Jay Fields and Zak Tamsen talked with InfoQ about Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), and how they have successfully used them in their projects at ThoughtWorks to empower businesses, reduce development time, and increase the agility of projects.
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Ruby on Mac OS X Leopard with DTrace, XCode and Interface Builder support
The newly released Mac OS X Leopard ships with the Ruby 1.8.6 and various Ruby libraries and tools installed. Leopard also includes DTrace probes for profiling Ruby, XCode and Interface Builder support and more.
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Lisp on the .NET Runtime
Continuing our coverage of Lisp, we present some of the efforts underway to port the venerable language to the .NET runtime. Variants we look at include IronLisp, LispSharp, and Common Larceny.
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Respect Demeter's Law through Rails Plugin
The Law of Demeter or Principle of Least Knowledge is a design guideline for developing software. It's not rare to see common Rails practices violating it. Luke Redpath brings a way to remedy this by providing Demeter's revenge plugin.
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Microsoft: Hypercall API extended to Open Specification Promise
Today Microsoft announced its hypercall API will now be included under the Open Specification Promise. Microsoft co-announced with Citrix and Novell.