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StickyNotes for Visual Studio 2008
StickyNotes is a Visual Studio plug-in allowing the creation of sticky notes attached to documents of a solution. There is a free community version and also a professional one.
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Article: Workflow Orchestration Using Spring AOP and AspectJ
This article provides a practical example of light-weight workflow orchestration using Spring AOP and AspectJ.
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Azure Storage Viewer
Sergei Meleshchuk is offering a storage viewer for Azure. This tool lets users explore their Azure queues, blobs, and tables.
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Cell Supercomputer at Home?
Sony's PS3 may be losing the market share war, but it has other uses. Does somebody want a supercomputer at home? That can be done by clustering PS3s running Linux. And the PS3s can still play Prince of Persia.
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Financial Functions for .NET
Luca Bolognese has reimplemented Excel’s collection of financial functions in F#. Released under an open source license, it should prove useful for both learning F# and for porting applications from Excel to .NET.
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DeepEarth, a Mapping Control Using Silverlight
DeepEarth is a mapping control combining Microsoft’s Virtual Earth with Silverlight 2.0. The open source project was released on CodePlex by its creators, a team of .NET enthusiasts.
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QCon London Update: 3 Months Away, Tony Hoare, Martin Fowler, Dion Hinchcliffe
InfoQ's third annual QCon London conference is coming back March 11-13, just 3 months away! Last year's QCon London had over 450 registrants & 100 speakers. This year will beat the economic gloom, join us for another awesome networking and educational experience!
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Hibernate Search 3.1 Supports Dynamic Search Analyzer and Query Time Performance Improvements
The latest version of Hibernate Search, an open source domain model search framework from Hibernate group, supports a declarative and dynamic search analyzer model as well as indexing and query time performance improvements. Hibernate Search development team recently announced the release of Version 3.1 of the search framework. The new version also provides new features focused on usability.
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Merb Will Be Merged Into Rails 3.0
Big news for Ruby web frameworks: Merb and Rails will be merged in Rails 3.0. The merge will bring some of Merb's characteristics to Rails: a defined public API, ability to run a barebones version rails-core (like merb-core) with further functionality available in the form of plugins, performance improvements and more.
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Rapid Application Development using Naked Objects for .NET
Richard Pawson of Naked Objects offers brief history of the framework and introduction to Naked Objects for .NET. Naked objects can be seen as Domain Driven Design taken to the extreme. With proper annotation, this framework can automatically generate a matching presentation layer in Java or .NET.
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A Design Template Gallery Precedes ASP.NET MVC RC
A design template gallery has recently being made public for ASP.NET MVC users containing free web site views ready to be downloaded and incorporated into a site. ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate will ship in January containing a series of improvements like: No code-behind files by default, scaffolding support, MSBuild task for views.
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Dynamic Language IDEs: Aptana Pydev and DLTK Python
This part of our series about IDEs for dynamic languages takes a look at Python IDEs. We take a look at Aptana's Pydev and DLTK Python, as well as the status of static analysis and automatic refactoring for Python.
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Servlet 3.0 Public Review Sparks a Debate
JSR-315 has produced a Public Review (PR) of the Servlet 3.0 specification, accompanied by a reference implementation in the GlassFish trunk. This release has resulted in a debate around the choices that the Expert Group (EG) has taken for the next generation Servlet APIs and the whole of the Java EE 6 platform.
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Beans Exposed with JMX Builder
JMX has been around for quite some time and now it's gone Groovy. Find out what one developer is doing to provide an easy to use Groovy Builder for exposing your beans.
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Ruby on Rails gets down to the Metal
The Ruby on Rails team has been busy moving Rails to the next level with the adoption of Rack. The implementation of Rack allows developers to use many available middleware pieces in their applications. This addition has allowed the Rails team to create Rails Metal, a wrapper around the generic Rack middleware which sits in front of a Rails request with access to Rails sessions.