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Enterprise Web Conf: WOI, REST, and Mashups in New York Oct 28 & London Oct 30
InfoQ and ProgrammableWeb.com have teamed up to bring you a one-day conference covering the emerging theory and practices behind RESTful SOA and Enterprise Mashups, called the 'Enterprise Web'. The event covers the emerging trends of web oriented integration/architecture, web as a platform, mashups, REST, and more.
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Microsoft Joins the OMG: UML or DSL?
There has been some debate recently to understand the meaning of Microsoft's support for UML. Is Microsoft going away from Domain Specific Languages or are UML and DSL complementary? Is UML becoming a notation more than a language? InfoQ spoke with Jack Greenfield to get some of these answers.
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Oslo Unveiled
As the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008 draws near, Douglas Purdy, Don Box and others are dropping some information about Microsoft Oslo.
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Extended Rails Exception Monitoring with Exceptional and Hoptoad
The Rails plugin ExceptionNotifier made Exception monitoring easy. Two companies (Exceptional and Hoptoad) extend this by providing a third party service that intercept exceptions and track them in a web interface. We talked to Eoghan McCabe from Exceptional and Matt Jankowski from Hoptoad.
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MS Enterprise Library Open Source
Microsoft has changed the license for the source code of version 4.0 of the Enterprise Library, now released under the open-source friendly MS-PL. The code is available through the Patterns & Practices CodePlex community.
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Fibers Roundup: NeverBlock Now Rails Compatible, "Poor Man's" Fibers For 1.8
NeverBlock released a new version of their library - this time with support for Rails and Ruby 1.8. The 1.8 support uses Amun Gupta's "Poor Man's" Fiber code which implements Fibers using Threads.
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Alcon 3: The alternative Open Source ActionScript Debugging Tool
Sascha Balkau has recently released Alcon 3, an alternative open source debugging tool for ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3. InfoQ spoke with Balkau to discuss how Alcon 3 fits in ActionScript-based rich Internet Application development.
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Interview: Joseph Hill About Important Developments in Mono
In this interview made by Greg Young of InfoQ, Joseph Hill talks about the current status of Mono, the release of Mono 2.0, and important developments related to Mono like Cecil, MoMA, and Moonlight.
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AJAX Animator Demonstrates AJAX in RIA World
AJAX Animator is an open-source project uses AJAX technologies to provide a fully standards-based, online, collaborative, Web-based animation suite. The 0.2 release shows good potential for AJAX plays in the RIA world. The creator of AJAX Animator recently shared his insights with InfoQ.
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Interview: Pervasive's Jim Falgout on Multi Core Programming and Data Flow
InfoQ sat down recently with Pervasive architect Jim Falgout to discuss Data Rush and the data flow concept.
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Coverity Readiness Manager Brings Quick Visibility to Code Characteristics
Coverity recently released Readiness Manager for Java providing a dashboard and analysis for code complexity, violation of best practices, architectural integrity, interdependencies, and test coverage.
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Software Manufacturing: Custom Application Stacks for Virtualized Infrastructure and Cloud Computing
CohesiveFT just released a white paper detailing a new trend in the industry, Software Manufacturing, fueled by Open Source Software and Cloud Computing. They explain why they feel this trend will disrupt traditional, single-sourced, middleware stacks. Could Software Manufacturing be the trigger of a second wave of success for Open Source Software?
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Aspects: An Easy Tool for Annotation Handling?
While many think of Aspects for cross-cutting concerns such as transaction management, persistence and role based security, another key value for them has been as an enabler for Annotations for ordinary projects. Using Aspects as a way to implement annotation handlers is a different way to think of them than as the traditional architect's "cross cutting concerns" view.
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Google Chrome: Perspectives and Analysis
On September 1st, 2008, Google announced its new open source browser, Google Chrome. InfoQ has taken some time to compile some of the perspectives and analysis from the community, news media and blogosphere in order to assemble comprehensive coverage of the Google Chrome launch and its impact.
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Filtrbox: Semantic Web in Flex RIA
Semantic Web technologies and services lie at the heart of the effort to drive the Web to the next generation as a universal medium for data, information and knowledge exchange. Filtrobox is a Semantic Web startup. InfoQ spoke with Filtrbox RIA Flex Developer, Justin Imhoff, to gain insight into the resources and technologies needed for such a startup.