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Spolsky vs Uncle Bob
The last few weeks, a public dispute has been going on between Joel Spolsky and Robert C Martin (Uncle Bob) about Test-Driven Development and about the SOLID principles of OO design. Here is a summary and review of the match.
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Article: Blaze Data Services or LiveCycle Data Services?
This article, by Ryan Knight, compares two similar products: Adobe’s LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS) and Open Source Blaze Data Services. The comparison is necessary to know the differences between the two products in order to choose the right one for a certain situation.
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Python 3.0 Breaks with the Past
Python 3.0 (aka Python 3000) was finally released 3 months ago (December 3rd 2008). It has been almost 9 year since Guido van Rossum, the language’s author, envisioned this new and revolutionary Python version. Python 3.0 breaks the backward compatibility with previous versions of the language.
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Managed Custom Actions with Visual Studio 2010 and WiX 3.0
As covered by InfoQ earlier, WiX 3.0 will be shipping with Visual Studio 2010. WiX is much more flexible than the Visual Studio Setup Project currently available today and it supports managed code to interact with the Windows Installer. Authors can use C#, VB.NET or any other .NET programming language. This also enables debugging which has been a major pain point for installation creators.
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Interview: Tijs Rademakers and Jos Dirksen on Open Source ESB
InfoQ has published a sample chapter from the book “Open Source ESBs In Action”, authored by Tijs Rademakers and Jos Dirksen, and took the opportunity to interview the authors about their experience in using open source ESBs in real-world projects.
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Presentation: Craftsmanship and Ethics
In this talk Robert C. Martin outlines the practices used by software craftsmen to maintain their professional ethics. He resolves the dilemma of speed vs. quality, and mess vs schedule. He provides a set of principles and simple Dos and Don'ts for teams who want to be counted as professional craftsmen.
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Interview: Rob Harrop on SpringSource dm Server and OSGi
In this interview made by InfoQ’s Srini Penchikala, Rob Harrop talks about SpringSource dm Server, its OSGi based modularity and the advantages it offers. He also touches other adjacent topics like support for Java EE6, cloud computing, JMX, and others.
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Sun Launches JavaFX Mobile
Sun Microsystems has launched JavaFX mobile today just in time for the mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain next week.
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Profiling Just Got Easier With Perf4j
When you start to think about profiling Java applications, many tools come to mind - but did you think profiling could be as easy as adding logging statements? This is the goal of the Perf4j project.
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Moonlight 1.0 RTM Has Been Released
Moonlight, the open source Silverlight implementation for Linux, has been sent to manufacturing. It can be downloaded as a Firefox plug-in running on most Linux distributions. Moonlight 1.0 uses Microsoft Media Pack 2 to play the media files.
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JRuby and Clojure - A Good Match?
Clojure is a JVM based LISP with interesting properties for concurrency (persistent data structures, STM). New libraries for Clojure are popping up - and some of them are inspired by Ruby libraries such as HAML, ActiveRecord, Rack, and others. We also look at combining JRuby and Clojure to get the best of both Ruby and LISP world, as well as access to technologies such as STM.
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A Quick Look at Architectural Styles and Patterns
App Arch Guide 2.0 (Microsoft patterns&practices), Chapter 6, talks about architectural styles like Message-Bus, Layered Architecture, SOA. Beside those styles there are numerous architectural patterns like Plug-in, Peer-to-Peer, Publish-Subscribe. Some authors make a difference between architectural styles, patterns and metaphors.
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Azure Services Training Kit Updated
An update to Azure Services Training Kit is now available. The training kit includes presentations, code demos, and hands-on labs to help get started developing on the Azure Services Platform.
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Dynamic Report for Java and Grails
Reporting is a common feature found in many software applications and DynamicJasper aims to make it a simple and easily configurable process.
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Using T4 in ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET MVC is using T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) to generate the code behind the scenes when a Controller or a View is added to a project. T4 is a fully customizable text generator based on templates.