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System.Data.SQLite to Support ADO.NET vNext
SQLite is a lightweight database engine written in C. Designed to be cross-platform, it doesn't have any external dependencies and only takes about 250 KB of disk space. Though it doesn't support all of SQL92, it is suitable for smaller projects, especially ones that need cross-platform support. And to top it all off, the source code is in the public domain.
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Holacracy - The Self-Organizing Enterprise
The fit between Agile teams and traditional enterprises can be challenging. Agile may highlight or exacerbate pre-existent dysfunctions, in areas a project manager may not be well-placed to address, so those involved in Agile roll-outs are thinking about alternate ways to organize the enterprise. Holacracy, created at Ternary Software, suggests that self-organization can extend outside IT.
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webMethods acquires Infravio
BPM and integration vendor webMethods will acquire SOA registry provider Infravio for US $38 million in cash.
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Opinion: Agile Forgets the Human Factor
Kevin Brady, self-declared Agile critic, has a problem with Agile software development approaches: he feels that while they look great on paper. they fail to work in reality because they forget the human factor. Commenters on his blog entry question whether Agile or poor implementation lie at fault.
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SQL Server Everywhere: the Future of Lightweight Databases
What is a developer who wants a light-weight, file-sharing based database to do? The answer is SQL Server Everywhere (SSEv). Like Jet, it is an in-process, file-sharing based engine. Though it lacks the functionality of SQL Server, it is suitable for small end-user applications that run on the desktop.
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SOA, What is it Good For?
In a series of news articles and discussions and blogs, the SOA community goes through the difficulties associated with SOA deployment with a degree of soul-searching. Surveys indicate that SOA is a long term committment of organizations and that the key drivers for SOA remain constant.
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Glassbox - Automated monitoring and troubleshooting using AOP
Glassbox is a production Java monitoring solution built around AspectJ, released under LGPL. Glassbox made it's first public announcement yesterday with the release of Glassbox Automated Troubleshooter beta 2. Glassbox deployes as a war file to your appserver and then uses AspectJ load time weaving and to monitor app code and other artifacts.
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Sun Officially Backs Ruby, Brings JRuby In-House
Charles Nutter, one of the developers of the JRuby (Ruby on JVM) project, announces JRuby is being brought into the Sun Microsystems fold.
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Presentation: AOP - Myths and Realities
This talk goes beyond myths surrounding AOP and shows the real deal. It examines many practical applications implemented with and without aspects, providing a context for scrutinizing AOP. It also discusses ways to adopt AOP in pragmatic, risk-managed ways allowing developers to try AOP in their own system and gain understanding at the experiential level without exposing them to undue risk.
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Put People First in Agile Distributed Testing
Baiju Joseph's new article on StickyMinds argues that, in order to build an effective testing team for distributed Agile, we need to focus on individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Based on the author's experience in setting up distributed agile testing teams, he lists numerous criteria that must be met in order to reach this goal.
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Why the "X" button on a PocketPC doesn't close apps
Mike Calligro from Microsoft's embedded product group expounds on why the "X" in the PPC OS does not actually close a PPC application.
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24.37% of Web Developers to Try Ruby in Next 12 Months
A recent SitePoint survey of 5000 Web developers show 24.37% are set to try Ruby in the next year.
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August Sandcastle CTP is Now Available
Last week Microsoft released another community tech preview for Sandcastle. Sandcastle is the tool Microsoft currently uses to produce the API documentation for Visual Studio 2005. Anand Raman of the Sandcastle team claims that they can compile the documentation for the entire framework API in about 30 minutes.
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Will Amazon Change How Enterprise Applications are Written and Hosted?
Amazon has quietly been expanding their business model as of late. They are targeting developers with three new computing services: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon Simple Queue Serve (SQS). Bloggers have been commenting on how the products could revolutionize how applications are provisioned and deployed.
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Spring 2 Final Approching with new support for OSGi, JPA, Asynch JMS
Spring 2.0 final is set to come out on September 26th - a few months after the original launch dates. InfoQ spoke to the Spring team to find out what's been going on. Spring has been updated with JPA final spec support, asychronous JMS, the new JSP form tag library, and a collaboration with IBM, BEA, and Oracle to bring OSGi support to Spring.