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Panel: Who will Develop Software in 10 Years?
In this video discussion panel (with transcript) Martin Fowler, Frank Buschmann, Steve Cook, Jimmy Nilsson, and Dave Thomas discuss the future of software development. Topics covered include outsourcing, is Google the next MS?, multi-core & parallism, grid computing, software stacks of the future, and more. The panel is from QCon sister-conference JAOO.
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Adobe Photoshop C3 Team Succeeds with Agile
"Better quality, plenty of features, fewer nights and weekends: what's not to like?" wrote Mary Branscombe in an interview with CS3 co-architect Russell Williams. Adobe has successfully adopted an iterative development process, leaving waterfall behind. This time they benefitted from a champion, who had successfully adopted iterative processes elsewhere, helping them over the rough spots.
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Article: Implementation of business rules and business processes in SOA
Boris Lublinsky and Didier Le Tien discuss how business process engines and business rule engines differ, where their respective strengths are and when to use what in an SOA context. They discuss commonalities and differences between business rules and business processes and present some guidelines on positioning business rules in SOA implementation and appropriate usage of each technology.
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Aptana Takes Over Development of RadRails
The company behind the popular Eclipse-based AJAX IDE Aptana announce that they are taking over development and sponsorship of RadRails, a move that may yet save the project from its current state of neglect.
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Factories 201 Series - Building Software Factories
Edward Bakker and Jezz Santos have been writing about Software Factories, providing a complete set of concise guidelines. The Microsoft Software Factories and DSL initiatives have caused many discussions. Today, Microsoft provides tools such as the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX), the Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT), and the Domain-Specific Language Tools (DSL Tools).
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QCon London next week - Registration Still Open, Day Passes Available
QCon is next week and over 500 people are registered to attend. It's not too late to register! For those who can't make it to the full 3 day conference, there are a few ways you can get a more limited taste of the conference, such as attending a one-day tutorial, buying a day pass to the conference.
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CIO JP Rangaswami on open source in the enterprise & the future of information
In this InfoQ exclusive, CIO JP Rangsawami explains how open source became a corporate IT strategy at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and why CIOs of major enterprises should consider open source for software development initiatives. JP also explains his vision of four pillars of the new world if information: Syndication, Search, Fulfillment, and Collaboration/Conversation.
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Improving Quality with "Developer Testing Masters"
Alberto Savoia of Agitar Software recently suggested the creation of a new position - Developer Testing Master - to bridge the gap between developers and testers.
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Oracle Contributes TopLink ORM Open Source to Eclipse
Oracle is contributing the commercial TopLink ORM open source to Eclipse. Going forward, all production features of TopLink will be available in EclipseLink and Oracle's commercially supported TopLink will only contain an additional thin proprietary integration code layer necessary for some Oracle AppServer and SOA Suite features. Oracle is also becoming an Eclipse Strategic Developer.
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Darwin and Service Reuse: Competition is Good
Service reuse is something that many SOA proponents say is a benefit. However, proponents of object-orientation techniques said the same thing and that didn't materialize. Is introducing competition in the service arena a way of getting improvements in reuse?
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Web Services Standards Overview Poster
innoQ has released a new version of their Web Services Standards Overview poster, covering more than 60 specifications and standards.
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Deny Execute on Assembly Doesn't
According to Microsoft's SQL Programmability & API Development Team Blog, the Execute permission for CLR assemblies actually has no effect. To reduce confusion over this, the ability to grant execute permissions to assemblies has be removed from SQL Server 2005 SP 2.
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Presentation: Maintaining Java Apps in Production Environments
Alexandre Rafalovitch delivers an organized overview of the tools and techniques that help with resolving problems that arise in real production environments. The presentation places emphasis on free and open source tools capable of being useful out of the box, without extensive configuration. Common problems are discussed, along with methods of rapid analysis and root cause determination.
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Ruby and Rails IDE Comparison
Competition for dominance in the Ruby IDE space is heating up. A recent blog entry does a good job with a comprehensive breakdown and comparison of features available in IntelliJ IDEA vs. NetBeans vs. RadRails.
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Alfresco 2.0: Switches to GPL from MPL+, Adds OpenSearch
Alfresco has released version 2.0 of their Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. InfoQ sat down with Ian Howells of Alfresco to talk about ECM systems and Alfresco.