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New Directions in Framework Design Guidelines
Microsoft's Framework Design Guidelines are the rules by which it expects both Microsoft libraries and those of individual developers to follow. As each version of .NET framework is released and tested in the field, their vision is refined. With the release of Cwalina and Abrams' second annotated book by the same name, we see the direction Microsoft is heading for the next couple of years.
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Microsoft Patterns & Practices releases Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unity Application Block 1.2
Microsoft Patterns & Practices announced the availability of Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unity Application Block 1.2
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Interview: John Lam on IronRuby, Microsoft and Open Source
In this interview from RubyFringe, John Lam talks about his work on IronRuby and how Microsoft is approaching Open Source software development.
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Performance Problems Mar SQL Server 2008 Full Text Search
SQL Server Full Ttext Search is a rather specialized discipline among database administrators. For roughly a decade it has been something separate from the rest of SQL Server, and in most cases unnecessary. But for those who do use it, it tends to be core to how data is indexed and retrieved. For those using it and upgrading to SQL Server 2008, trouble is brewing.
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Is LINQ to SQL Truly Dead?
Back in July we reported that LINQ to SQL was transferred to the SQL Data Programmability team. This event raised a lot of concern in the developer community, who worried that work on LINQ to SQL would halt in favor of ADO.NET Entity Framework. A recent announcement by Tim Mallalieu, Program Manager of both LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework, has exacerbated those concerns.
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.NET and Dynamic Languages
In the months and years ahead, dynamic languages are going to take on an increasing important role in the .NET platform. To support this Microsoft is heavily investing in integration between the dynamic languages and the CLR.
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Event Stream Processing: Scalable Alternative to Data Warehouses?
Dan Pritchett suggests that analyzing streams of events using Event Stream Processor could be an interesting alternative solution to data warehousing applications, which have, in his opinion, important downsides in terms of cost, scalability and reactivity.
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Open Source Usage Was Quantified Across Enterprise
The Open Source Census (OSC) has recently published a report meant to reveal the usage of open source software across the enterprise and across the world. Governments and financial services companies are leading the list, and Europe uses more open source software than all others, including US.
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JavaScript Meets Ruby: John Barnette Explains Johnson
Johnson brings Javascript to Ruby, allowing to run Javascript inside a Ruby runtime. To understand the why and how behind Johnson, we talked to John Barnette who's behind Johnson.
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Presentation: An Introduction to M
During PDC 2008, David Langworthy, Architect at Microsoft, and Don Box, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, held a presentation about Oslo, focusing especially on the modeling language M, explaining what is and what is not, and also demonstrating using M to create a data model.
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Ruby SDK for the Microsoft Cloud Computing Platform Released
The DotNetServicesRuby team, a partnership between Microsoft and Thoughtworks, announced the launch of Milestone 1 - Technology Preview of Ruby SDK for Microsoft .NET Services, a key component in Azure, the Microsoft Cloud Computing Platform.
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Testing: What Developers Are Expected To Do Versus What They Actually Do
The recent PDC underscored a major disconnect in the testing community. There is a fundamental misconception that developers only need to write "unit testers" and all other forms of testing are someone else's problem.
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X2O Framework for Flex Server Integration
As RIA technologies maturing, there are increasing needs for the integration between RIAs and server side technologies. X2O Framework from We Are Mammoth is one such integration solution for Flex. InfoQ spoke with Ka Wai Cheung, a partner of the We Are Mammoth, to learn how X2O Framework fits into Flex based RIA development.
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Performance Monitoring Roundup: Rails Core and New Relic Cooperate, FiveRuns TuneUp Supports Merb
NewRelic announced a cooperation with the Rails Core team to improve Rails performance. An opt-in feature allows to make performance data available to the Rails Core team, which can use it to figure out Rails bottlenecks in real world Rails apps. Also: FiveRuns' TuneUp performance monitoring tools now supports Merb.
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Ruby VM Roundup: Ruby 1.9.1 Preview 1, Rubinius Moves To C++ VM
Ruby 1.9.1 Preview 1 is now out, which marks a freeze on language features and most other items, with a final release of 1.9.1 scheduled for late January 2009. Ruby 1.9.1 is planned to be the first stable 1.9.x release. Also: the C++ branch of Rubinius has been promoted as the default branch.