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Compiled IronPython
Shri Borde discuses the status of IronPython 2 and how it works with compiled code. He focuses on issues involving reflection and CLS compliance.
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Interview: John Lam About IronRuby
In this interview, John Lam, Program Manager on the Dynamic Language Runtime team at Microsoft, talks about IronRuby, what it means to .NET supporters and how it has been received by the Ruby community.
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Jason Van Zyl Discusses Sonatype, The Eclipse Foundation and Maven
Sonatype, the main company which drives Maven development, recently announced that they are joining the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer. InfoQ spoke with Sonatype CTO and Maven founder Jazon Van Zyl to learn more about this partnership and what it means for the future of Maven.
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Windows Live Tools July CTP for Microsoft Visual Studio
Windows Live Dev has released the Windows Live Tools July CTP for Microsoft Visual Studio, a set of VS add-ins allowing developers to incorporate Windows Live services into web applications developed with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008.
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Second Functional Test Workshop Results
The second Agile Alliance Functional Test Workshop was held as a pre-conference session before Agile 2008. It was run as a series of open space sessions facilitated by Jeff Paton. The primary purpose of this workshop was to discuss cutting-edge advancements in and envision possibilities for the future of automated functional testing tools.
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Apple and Ruby Roundup: iPhone Config Utility on Rails, SproutCore Tools in Ruby
Ruby pops up in some recent software provided or used by Apple. The iPhone Configuration Web Utility for Enterprises is built on Rails. SproutCore, which powers the client side of Apple's MobileMe, uses Ruby for tooling and Merb for static content generation.
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Parallel Mono
Recently we announced that Mono achieved full C# 3 support. Along with that comes support for Parallel LINQ. Parallel LINQ, part of Microsoft’s Parallel Extensions library, allows developers to quickly make queries execute across multiple threads.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP Released
Version 1.0 of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP has been released, allowing greater interoperability between PHP and MS SQL 2005. The driver is available for download on MSDN, and the source code for the driver is available on Code Plex.
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Bill McCarthy asks “Are Iterators Fundamentally Flawed?”
Iterators are at the core of .NET programming. Only rarely do developers actually work against indexed data, preferring to use for-each loops for most tasks. But is this inherently sequential access method appropriate as we turn more to multi-threaded applications?
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Aspect Oriented Programming for Silverlight
The AOP framework PostSharp now supports Silverlight, Mono, and .NET Compact Framework.
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FXStruts: Developing Flex-Friendly Struts Application
Struts is a Java framework based on standard Java technologies, such as Java Servlet, JavaBean, ResourceBundles and XML. Java developers have been enjoying Struts as a solid server side framework for many years. Recently, a technical evangelist for Adobe Systems, Anirudh Sasikumar, developed a new solution by integrating Flex as Struts' front end. Sasikumar calls it FxStruts.
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Google Introduces GWT Overlay Types
Javascript Overlay Types is a new feature in GWT 1.5 that simplifies the process of interacting with native Javascript data structures in GWT applications.
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Java Pattern Framework Jt 2.6 Supports JtWizard and Enhancements to Jt Components
The latest version of Java pattern framework Jt supports JtWizard and enhancements to Jt Components. The Jt development team recently released version 2.6 of the open source pattern oriented framework. JtWizard can be used for generating Java applications based on design patterns including Gang Of Four, Data Access Object, Model-View-Controller and J2EE design patterns.
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Soltice Fuses the Power of Flex and OSGi
Over recent months, the Open Source Gateway Initiative (OSGi) has been gaining attention in the application server technology space. While OSGi makes application server products more modular and flexible, its adaptation in the rich Internet application (RIA) area is only getting started. Solstice is the first framework to integrate Flex and OSGi in a single out-of-the-box package.
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Securing the Web with Decentralized Information Flow Control
Max Krohn and his colleagues at MIT developed a new end-to-end security architecture to help achieving data secrecy and integrity across complex Web Applications. In this talk and a series of papers, Max presents their findings and a use case based on MoinMoin Wiki.