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NUnit 2.5 had been Released
After nearly a year's work, NUnit 2.5 has finally released. This release includes: Data-Driven Tests, Inline Expected Exception Tests, Generic and Lambda support, Out of process execution of tests and Source Code Display.
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Presentation: JQuery - a Javascript DOM Library
Announcing a presentation on JQuery: a JavaScript library that provides cross-browser compatibility, Ajax and DOM services, rapid construction of interactive prototypes, and the addition of dynamic behavior to existing Web applications. The presentation introduces Jquery, demos it use, and discusses particular features that differentiate it from similar library products
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DryadLINQ, Distributed Computing Made Easy
Dryad and DryadLINQ are two Microsoft Research projects which facilitate large data processing on computer clusters or data centers for the C# developer.
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SpringSource Acquires Hyperic
SpringSource, the commercial maintainer of the Spring Framework, has made its third acquisition in two years by purchasing Hyperic, an open source systems monitoring and management specialist. InfoQ looks at the two companies' product offerings and talks to Javier Soltero, formerly CEO of Hyperic and now CTO of Management Products at SpringSource, to find out more about the deal.
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InfoQ Virtual Training: Design, DSLs, Deployment Automation, Web-based services in May and June
In-house training or tutorials at conferences are quite expensive, but what if you could attend some of the best tutorials by leading experts live and from your own office at a low cost? InfoQ is testing this idea with the launch of our virtual training: one-hour and half-day training initially covering agile, effective software development, web-based services, DSLs, and more.
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SCA Extensions for Event Processing and Pub/Sub
Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a today’s most popular programming model for building applications and systems based on a Service Oriented Architecture. A new “Assembly Model Specification Extensions for Event Processing and Pub/Sub” allows to further extend SCA’s reach in implementation of the event-driven systems.
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New Version Of Microsoft Managed Services Engine Released
Microsoft Released the May 2009 CTP of the Managed Services Engine (MSE) with source code that is available at Codeplex. The CTP is minor update to the February Beta release.
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Heroku's Provisionless Hosting for Rails Apps is Revolutionary
Heroku debuted a commercial version of their Rails hosting solution last week, after a free beta stage that lasted over a year. Using Heroku, deployment of a new Ruby web application from scratch is accomplished with little more than a handful of commands from your terminal. No emails, phone calls or support tickets needed.
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Language Workbenches May Ultimately Completely Change the Way We Do Programming
After many years in development, Intentional Software has finally released their Intentional Domain Workbench (IDW). JetBrains has open sourced their Meta Programming System (MPS), currently in Beta 2.
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Five Questions with Eric Hexter and Jeffery Palermo
Eric Hexter and Jeffery Palermo are the founders of MVC Contrib, an open source extension to Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC. With MVC Contrib getting ready for its first first production-grade release, we asked them to take a moment to reflect on the project and ASP.NET MVC as a whole.
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Presentation: Financial Transaction Exchange at BetFair.com
Betfair is the world's largest betting exchange with a transaction volume the equivalent of over half the combined equity trading volume of every major stock exchange in the world. In response to an increase in transaction volume coupled with a decrease in value per transaction, Betfair launched a number of initiatives to dramatically increase transaction processing capacity and reduce cost.
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WEB4J: Contrarian Web App Development for Java
WEB4J is a minimalist, opinionated, full-stack web framework for Java. It embraces convention over configuration and is extremely small: only 88 classes total.
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MINIX 3 Promises to Be More Secure Than Windows or Linux
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a computer science professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, is leading the project developing MINIX 3, an operating system meant to be more secure than Windows or Linux.
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Declarative Concurrency For Ruby With Dataflow
Part of the Ruby language was influenced by functional programming techniques. Larry Diehl brings a declarative concurrent model to Ruby by importing the concept of unification from Oz Language with the Dataflow project.
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Spring Batch 2.0 Supports Job Partitioning and Annotation Based Configuration
The latest version of Spring Batch framework supports job partitioning, remote chunking and annotation based configuration. Spring Batch development team recently released version 2.0 of the batch framework. The new version also has features like Java 5 support and non-sequential execution.