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When To Use Mock Objects?
In his 'Ode To Code' K Scott Allen offers rational for the use of mock objects when unit testing and discusses his thoughts on the use of mock object frameworks.
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Google Tech Talks Presents Overview of NIO.2 for Java 7
Google Tech Talks published a presentation by Alan Bateman and Carl Quick about NIO.2 for Java 7, with justification and examples of all planned features.
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Vertebra: EngineYard's Next Generation Cloud Computing Platform
At RailsConf 2008, Ezra Zygmuntowicz announced Vertebra, a next generation cloud computing platform that builds on Erlang, Ruby and XMPP. We talked to Ezra to learn about Vertebra, which will soon be open sourced.
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Presentation: Erlang - software for a concurrent world
We get more and more cores in our CPUs, but does our software run linearly faster? In most cases - no. We've hit a trend change when it comes to faster CPUs. We'll get more and more cores, but each core will be slower as the number of cores increase. In his talk, Joe Armstrong introduces Erlang and the ideas of Concurrent Oriented Programming which is one way to solve the problem.
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Traceability Matrix in an Agile Project
The relevance of a traceability matrix is to easily perform impact analysis to a changed requirement.However, does a traceability matrix have a place in an Agile project? The post looks at various view points across blogs and mail groups to find a solution.
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Microsoft Releases Silverlight 2 Beta 2 at TechEd 2008
During his keynote at TechEd for Developers 2008 in Orlando, FL this week, Bill Gates announced the release of Silverlight 2 Beta 2.
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RubyFringe Conference - End of registration coming up
The registration period for RubyFringe - a new Ruby conference in Toronto, Canada - lasts only a few more days. The speaker list includes Ezra Zygmuntowicz (EngineYard, Merb), Yehuda Katz (Merb), Obie Fernandez (Hashrocket), John Lam (IronRuby), Chris Wansrath (Github), Damien Katz (CouchDB), etc. We talked to the organizers of RubyFringe about what to expect of the conference.
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Article: An Introduction to BlazeDS
Client/server communication is a key part of today's RIA architectures. In this article James Ward and Shashank Tiwari dive into Adobe's open source BlazeDS messaging server. The article describes the benefits of the AMF data format and how to use BlazeDS with a Java based server side application.
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Object Lifecycle Explorer Released on AlphaWorks
Object Lifecycles (a.k.a State Machines) have been for the most part ignored by developers, architects and business process practitioners alike. A group of researchers from IBM Zurich has just released an Object Lifecycle modeling tool that complements and link with executable Business Process models.
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On the Evolution of the .NET Collections
The collections in the .NET Framework have evolved significantly over the years. Taking advantage of Microsoft's new found openness, we show two versions of a familiar data structure, the hash table, in both .NET and Mono.
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Does Curl Outperform Flex 3?
In its most recent bid to establish itself at the forefront of RIA competitors, Curl, Inc. announced the results of a performance benchmark test of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, Version 6.0, and Adobe Flex 3, showing that the Curl language outperforms ActionScript 3, the programming language of the Adobe Flash Player runtime, by a factor of 8 to 10.
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Boo: a First Class Language in Visual Studio
Boo is now on its way to becoming a first class citizen within Visual Studio 2008 thanks to the work of Jeffery Olson and the developers of BooLangStudio, a Visual Studio plugin.
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SpringSource's Ben Alex Details Emerging Standards in Application Security
At JavaOne 2008 conference, Ben Alex from SpringSource talked about emerging security requirements in enterprise applications. He discussed the standards like Servlet Security, JAAS, CAPTCHA, Single Sign-On and Federated Identity using OpenID technology. The presentation also included the standards on securing web services (WS-Security), JMS messaging and ESB.
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Google App Engine Load Test Result
The result of the Google Web Toolkit on Google App Engine load test: The load was 10 reqs/sec for an hour, and 35 reqs/sec at peak. The result? No sweat.
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DARE for AIR
DARE for AIR is a project aiming at providing the same ease of development for Adobe AIR as HTML, JavaScript and Ajax developers have been using for years.