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  • OAuth Gaining Momentum

    OAuth, an open standard for access delegation, is gaining momentum with a number of implementations including one for Spring Security.

  • Article: David Nuescheler on JCR and REST

    In this interview, Day CTO and JCR Spec Lead David Nuescheler discusses the benefits of JCR, the Java Content Repository standard, the difference between an API such as Atom/Atom Publishing protocol and JCR, JCR's connection to REST, and Apache Sling, a new kind of Web framework.

  • Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Released

    SharePoint is rapidly becoming the default CMS platform for companies building internal website using Microsoft technologies. SharePoint, though loaded with features out of the box, is often heavily customized using ASP.NET. In order to facilitate that, Microsoft has recently released several resources for both new and experienced SharePoint developers.

  • ActionScript Framework JumpShip 3.1 Released with Extensive Ruby on Rails Support

    JumpShip, version 3.1, the most recent addition to open-source Flex and ActionScript rich Internet applications (RIA) was released on May 21, 2008. As part of our efforts to stay abreast of RIA development frameworks, InfoQ spoke with Jamie Scanlon, the creator of JumpShip Framework.

  • Deprecated and Discontinued Features in SQL Server 2008

    Everybody is waiting for the new features coming with Microsoft SQL Server 2008, but there are some deprecated and discontinued features that we should be aware of.

  • Microsoft has Pulled Project Sandcastle for Open Source Violations

    In response to community pressure, Microsoft has removed project Sandcastle from their CodePlex website. This is a temporary move while they contemplate Sandcastles future.

  • WebKit Team Announces SquirrelFish, a Bytecode Based JavaScript Interpreter

    The WebKit development team announced last week the development of a new interpreter for the WebKit JavaScript engine code-named SquirrelFish. According to official WebKit blog: "SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit's previous interpreter."

  • Presentation: Mingle: Building a Rails-Based Product

    Neal Ford talks about Mingle, Thoughtworks Studios' project management software. Besides Mingle's features, Neal also talks about the experience of building Mingle on both MRI and JRuby, and the plans for making use of JRuby specific features like AOT to improve future versions of Mingle.

  • InfoQ Case Study: NASDAQ Market Replay

    In this case study InfoQ reviews the usage of Adobe AIR and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in the NASDAQ Market Replay application. It is an exciting time for the software industry, as the NASDAQ Market Replay implementation demonstrates that a powerful data driven application can be brought to the market quickly and deployed within a limited budget.

  • VMWare Releases Virtual Infrastructure Java API and Jython Scripting Examples

    VMWare recently open sourced their VI SDK under the BSD license. The VMware Virtual Infrastructure Java API provides a set of libraries with full support of managed object model and utilities to manage and control VMware virtual machines and servers using the VMwware Virtual Infrastructure Web service interface.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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