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LiveRun – Taking REPL One Step Sideways
Visual Studio doesn't have much support for REPL-style coding, which is unfortunate as the situations where that would be really useful aren't going away. As a work-around Lucian Wischik offers LiveRun, a VS plug-in that constantly runs a program as its being written. This makes for a useful, though not perfect, tool for presentations and just trying things out.
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Martin Fowler Sees a Thaw in Frozen Thinking about Data Storage
In a recent blog post, Martin Fowler, a renowned software thought leader, observed at last week's QCon that the deep freeze in thinking about databases in application architectures is thawing. The world has been stuck using RDBMS databases for every application use case, but the time has come to also consider RISC RDBMS or distributed document-oriented databases.
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No Change Tracking for ADO.NET Entity Framework 2010
One of the biggest complaints about ADO.NET Entity Framework was that it did not support change tracking. Despite everything from ADO.NET DataSets to every single non-Microsoft ORM having support for this out of the box, Microsoft has no intention of fixing this in the .NET 4.0/VS 2010 timeframe.
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All In One IDE Released
JetBrains has been continuously improving their award winning Java IDE, Intellij IDEA. However, it has gone way beyond just a Java development tool, especially with this latest release.
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Mobile Ruby Roundup: Symbian Ruby 1.9, Android, JME, iPhone and Mono
A port of Ruby 1.9 is now available on Symbian. We take a look at other options for running Ruby on mobile devices, from JRuby on Android or JME to IronRuby on the iPhone with the aid of Mono.
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Apache Ivy 2.0.0-RC2: Closing in on 2.0
Apache Ivy, a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) project dependencies has reached its second release candidate, preparing for the final 2.0 release.
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JCP Panel: The Community Demands More Openness and Easier Participation
QCon San Francisco 2008 panel on Open Standards Development hosted Patrick Curran, JCP Chair and distinguished members of the community that shared experiences both on open standards and open source development. Almost from the beginning it became evident that there were two major issues that would dominate the discussion: Openness and Ease of entry level participation to the JCP.
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Rails 2.2 Released: A Glance at New Features
After two release candidates, Rails 2.2 has been released. We take a look at some of the major new features and improvements.
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Article: Composite Oriented Programming with Qi4j
The goal of modeling domain concepts through objects set by OOP has for a long time been handled in insufficient ways. In this article we introduce the concept of Composite Oriented Programming, and show how it avoids the issues with OOP and reignites the hope of being able to compose domain models with reusable pieces.
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Presenting the VS 2010 Roadmap
Rico Mariani, Chief Architect of Visual Studio, talks about the long term plans for Visual Studio 2010. His emphasis is on two key areas, extensibility and performance.
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Microsoft Will Replace Live OneCare with “Morro”
Microsoft has recently announced their plan to stop selling the Live OneCare security suite by June 30 2009 and the intention to replace it with a free security kit called Morro.
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Faster Test Runs With Clover's Test Optimization
The recent release of Clover 2.4 highlights a new "Test Optimization" feature that offers to speed up CI builds and allow developers to spend less time waiting for their tests to run. The feature leverages "per-test" coverage data to selectively run only the tests impacted by your code changes.
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JavaFX and Adobe Flex Insider Shares Thoughts
Chet Haase of Adobe Systems, who previously worked at Sun on the JavaFX team, shared his comparisons of JavaFX and Adobe Flex on the Yahoo FlexCoder group.
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Team Foundation Server for Telecommuters
Back when Visual SourceSafe was the de facto version control for Windows developers, remote access was a major problem. Products like SourceOffSite were a necessity for anyone working remotely. While globalization and unstable fuel prices continue to drive increases in telecommuting, Microsoft is still neglecting this sector, leaving opportunities for smaller companies like Teamprise.
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Interview: Dan Farino About MySpace’s Architecture
In this interview taken by InfoQ’s Ryan Slobojan, Dan Farino, Chief Systems Architect at MySpace, talks about the system architecture and the challenges faced when building a very large online community. Because MySpace is built almost entirely on the .NET Framework, Dan explains how a .NET product scales on hundreds of servers.