InfoQ Homepage Development Content on InfoQ
-
Pruning The Deadwood from Java EE
Java EE 6 begins the process of pruning APIs from the platform, with five likely to get the chop.
-
Silverlight Has Lost an Important Customer
Yesterday, the MLB 2009 season started being broadcasted live on the Internet by MLB.TV using Flash instead of Silverlight. After one year of using Silverlight, MLB switched back to Flash due to problems plaguing Microsoft’s player.
-
IBM-Sun Takeover Talks Collapse
IBM's talks to acquire Sun Microsystems have broken down according to media reports.
-
Run Code Run: Hosted Continuous Integration
RunCodeRun is a hosted continuous integration service for Ruby projects on GitHub, developed by Relevance. We take a first look at the project and talked to its developer Rob Sanheim.
-
Transaction Strategies Based on Java Transaction Models
It is a common mistake to confuse transaction models with transaction strategies. Mark Richards discusses the three transaction models supported by the Java Platform (Local Transaction, Programmatic Transaction, and Declarative Transaction) and four transaction strategies (Client Orchestration, API Layer, High Concurrency, and High Speed Processing) that can be based on those models.
-
Presentation: Steve Vinoski on REST, Reuse and Serendipity
Planning reusability is hard, designing for unforeseen reuse might be even harder. In this QCon London 2008 talk, Steve Vinoski presents some of the barriers to reuse found in typical distributed systems development approaches, and discusses how REST not only helps overcome some of these barriers, but also leads to potentially significantly increased chances for achieving serendipitous reuse.
-
Clojure Roundup: Clojure on CLR and Javascript, Terracotta, New Release
Clojure has attracted a lot of interest recently. A new project allows to use Clojure with Terracotta to run code across many JVMs, ports of Clojure to .NET and Javascript have become available, and a new Clojure release adds new features and makes sequences fully lazy.
-
JavaRebel 2.0 supports WAR/EAR hot-deployment and Spring integration
The latest version of JavaRebel, a JVM plugin used for dynamic deployment of application code changes, supports WAR/EAR hot-deployment and integration with Spring and Struts 2 frameworks. ZeroTurnaround development team recently announced the release of JavaRebel 2.0 version.
-
Aptana Cloud Connect for Java
Last week, Aptana, developers of the PyDev Python IDE for Eclipse, announced the availability of cloud support via Aptana Cloud Connect. Aptana Cloud is a general cloud hosting service which is portable between Amazon EC2 and other cloud environments.
-
Eclipse BIRT reporting and BIRT Exchange
Actuate has announced the BIRT Global Partner Connection at BIRT Exchange, for organisations wishing to develop with BIRT, an open-source reporting framework for Eclipse. BIRT provides reporting functionality and is one of the top ten projects at Eclipse.
-
Presentation: The Evolution of Lisp
In this presentation recorded at OOPSLA 2008, Guy L. Steele Jr. and Richard P. Gabriel reenact their presentation called "The Evolution of Lisp" which took place during ACM History of Languages Conference in 1993.
-
Interview: Chad Myers on FubuMVC - An Alternative MVC Implementation in ASP.NET
When ASP.NET MVC was first made available, Jeremy D. Miller and Chad Myers worked with the pre release versions and changed some of the underlying implementation. Later almost nothing was left of the original ASP.NET MVC implementation and they decided to create the alternative ASP.NET MVC implementation FubuMVC. Later they invited in Mark Nijhof as one of the major contributors to the project.
-
MountainWest RubyConf 2009 Videos
MountainWest RubyConf took place from 13-14 March in Salt Lake City. All talks are available from Confreaks; we picked some interesting ones – Rails 3 and Merb, DSL design, usability on Rails, Vertebra – and give a coarse summary and some pointers into the talks.
-
Amazon Rolls Out Hadoop Based MapReduce to EC2
It has been possible to run Hadoop on EC2 for a while. Today Amazon simplified the process by announcing Amazon Elastic MapReduce which automatically deploys EC2 instances for computational use and includes a API for interacting with them.
-
Enhancements in JScript 5.8, the IE8 Scripting Engine
After a couple of betas, IE8 was finally released last month including version 5.8 of its JScript engine. The main enhancements of the scripting engine are: JSON support, performance optimizations, ECMA 3 compatibility, a profiler plus a debugger.