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  • Git# Offers Git Access for .NET and Mono Projects

    Git# is a .NET and Mono version of the popular source code management system, Git, obtained by porting JGit to C#. Other related projects are: msysgit and gitextensions.

  • MySpace Explains How They Use the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime

    Currently MySpace is using CCR on 1,200 middle-tier caching servers, 3,000 web servers, and countless other related projects. In a Channel 9 interview, Principal Architect Erik Nelson and Senior Architect Akash Patel explain how CCR fits into MySpace’s core architecture.

  • Testing Heuristics - Thinking like a tester

    James Bach and Elisabeth Hendrickson are two of the context driven testing community. James recently spoke at the STANZ conference and provided a guideline for approaching testing, and Elisabeth provides a heuristic checklist to help identify valuable testing activities.

  • JRuby 1.4RC1 Released, Adds Windows Installer, 1.8.7 Support, New Embedding API

    JRuby 1.4RC1 is out and brings 1.8.7 compatibility, improved Java integration, a Windows installer, a new YAML parser as well as a new embedding API.

  • Getting Ready for NetBeans 6.8 - What’s New?

    The NetBeans development team has announced the release of version 6.8 milestone 2 and the beta version is scheduled in a few days. Notable additions include support for Java EE 6, JSF 2.0, an embedded broswer and more.

  • New Ruby Enterprise Edition Release Switches to Ruby 1.8.7

    A new release of the Ruby Enterprise Edition switches from Ruby 1.8.6 to Ruby 1.8.7 and includes patches that significantly improve performance, as Evan Weaver from Twitter confirms.

  • GitHub Stops Automatic Gem Building

    GitHub has stopped automatically building Gems, and will stop their Gem server a year from now. The GitHub team suggests Gemcutter as alternative Gem hosting site next to RubyForge.

  • Agile Australia 2009 Conference

    The Agile Australia 2009 conference is running in Sydney on 15 & 16 October. Over 25 sessions with local and international speakers.

  • IronRuby Nears its 1.0 Release

    IronRuby got off to a very slow start, largely in part to the fact that Microsoft employees are not allowed to even look at GPL code like CRuby. But they have been quietly making a lot of progress and are getting close to their 1.0 release.

  • Cisco Has Announced the Winners of a Year Long Contest

    Cisco has announced the winners of the “Think Inside the Box” Developer Contest. The challenge was to create an AXP application for Cisco’s ISR.

  • Jetty 7.0 released

    The release of Jetty 7.0 was announced today and is available for download from its new home at Eclipse.org as well as via the maven repository. This version represents an evolution of Jetty 6.0, and represents a significant reorganisation of the codebase as well as numerous performance improvements. In addition, the Continuation API is now portable across different servers.

  • MuleSoft Releases Tomcat-based Tcat Server and iBeans Integration Framework

    Tcat Server, an Apache Tomcat-based application server created by MuleSoft (formerly MuleSource), was released today. InfoQ took the opportunity to talk with Mahau Ma, Greg Schott and Ross Mason of MuleSoft to learn more about Tcat Server and another new integration framework called iBeans.

  • Silverlight for Windows Embedded CE Is Not True Silverlight

    With the RTM of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3, Microsoft has included a version of Silverlight targeted at embedded devices. There are major differences between Silverlight on the desktop and “Silverlight for Windows Embedded" (Silverlight for WE).

  • IronPython for .NET 4

    Previews of IronPython for .NET 4 have been shipping along with VS 2010, but that does not mean the two are tied together. We break down the plans for delivering IronPython to .NET developers.

  • The DLR’s Adaptive Compiler

    The Dynamic Language Runtime has significant performance improvements over traditional interpreters for Python and Ruby, once it is warned up. But for code you only use once or twice, the performance can be downright pitiful. Fortunately a solution is in sight.

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