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  • Apache Tuscany Releases First Milestone

    Apache Tuscany released it's first milestone. Tuscany, an open source implementation of SCA and SDO. SCA, or Service Component Architecture and Service Data Objects.

  • SOA Software and WSO2 Bring in VC Money

    Draper Fisher leads an $11 Million investment round in SOA Software. Intel Capital, the Venture arm of the Santa Clara chipmaker has invested $4 Million dollars in WSO2, an open source software company.

  • Tutorial on Contract-First Web Services

    Arjen Poutsma has posted a step-by-step tutorial on contract-first Web service development.

  • Microsoft Releases Insurance Value Chain Architecture Framework v1.0

    Microsoft has announced a new architecture framework to assist insurance companies in developing SOAs and deploying pre-integrated software applications around core insurance business processes.

  • Scala: combining the best of Ruby and Java?

    Like Ruby, Scala has a very terse syntax and its extensibility makes it suitable for writing DSLs, like Java, Scala is statically typed and can call Java code seamlessly without any declarations or glue code. Scala founder Martin Odersky (who co-designed Java Generics and implemented javac) has started blog today with his first entry on the history which led up to Scala.

  • InfoQ Book: Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks

    InfoQ has partnered with Minh T. Nguyen to bring you Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks. The book explains how to use VS.NET efficiently, including everything from editing and compiling to debugging and navigating within the VS.NET IDE. The book covers the Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, and 2005 Beta 1 releases.

  • InfoQ.com Officially Launched!

    InfoQ has officially launched today, having previously been in unlaunched/testing mode since May 17th. InfoQ is a new Enterprise Software Development Community serving Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile. Interest so far has been high, with over 19,249 unique visitors to the site. Today's launch presents version 0.7 of the site. Thank you to our members, sponsors, and authors!

  • Watir Adds Support for Modal Dialogs

    Watir is a very popular testing tool for web apps. The newest release adds support for Internet Explorer modal dialogs, which are common in enterprise applications.

  • Rails Powering Online Shopping Evolution

    First JadedPixel wows us with Shopify, then this week Dylan Stamat and Jonathan Siegel announce RightCart.com, a new web service that they wrote using Rails in just six weeks. Both apps are making waves in greater web universe.

  • Should We Manage Both Features and Tasks?

    Although it keeps people busy, managing tasks is neither interesting nor useful. Managing value created provides greater leverage and greater risk management. Jon Kern blogged last week on creating good features (rather than tasks) by focusing on value and testability. But do we sometimes need to manage tasks, too? David Anderson used the Theory of Constraints to back an unexpected answer.

  • Nemerle: A Hybrid Programming Language For The .NET Platform

    Nemerle is a hybrid language developed by the Computer Science Institute of the University of Wroclaw in Poland. It is a high-level statically typed language that offers functional, object-oriented, and imperative features. It has a simple C#-like syntax and a meta-programming system.

  • RubyConf 2006 Call for Proposals

    David Black of Ruby Central announced this week that the call for proposals for RubyConf 2006 is now open. There has been strong representation from the Agile community at this event in previous years.

  • Ivar Jacobson Reveals Essential Unified Process (Ess UP) Vision

    Ivar Jacobson, father of use cases and the Unified Process (UP) as well as one of the original "Three Amigos" of UML fame, describes his vision for a streamlined version of the UP which is published on a collection of cards instead of as HTML pages.

  • JBoss Rules 3 (Drools) is out

    JBoss is timing a number of releases to coincide with next weeks JBoss world in Las Vegas. The latest is JBoss Rules 3.0, which is the new brand for the Drools rules engine project under JBoss' umbrella and support model. Drools is a Rules Engine implementation based on Charles Forgy's Rete algorithm tailored for the Java language.

  • IBM Updates Rational Toolset

    IBM announced today a host of new SOA tools which were launched at the Rational Software Development Conference 2006. These tools increasingly support governance through the lifecycle stages of design, development, deployment, testing and maintenance.

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