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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.
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Neo4j - an Embedded, Network Database
Neo4j is an embedded network model database for Java, Ruby and Python applications. It is capable of handling billions of nodes/relationships/properties on single machine hardware, supporting ACID transactions, durable persistence, concurrency control, transaction recovery, and everything else you’d expect from an enterprise-strength database.
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Perst 3.0 Embedded Database Released
McObject has released version 3.0 of its open source embedded database targeted at Java and .NET developers.
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Coordination Data Structures: New Classes for .NET Multithreading
The June drop of Parallel Extensions for .NET added a set of classes to make sharing data in a multi-threaded application easier. With ten new classes including new synchronization primitives, futures, and new collection classes, there is only time to touch on each of them briefly.
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Article: Intro to Google Charts and gchartrb
Google Charts is a web service for generating charts. In this article, Matthew Bass explains the Google Charts interface and the gchartrb library which makes easy to create the Google Charts URLs from Ruby code.
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Velocity: Microsoft's Distributed In-Memory Cache
Distributed in-memory caches have been rather popular over the last few years in everything from mainstream Java applications to the fringe languages like Erlang. Continuing its rather frantic efforts to catch up with technologies predominately found in the open source world, Microsoft has introduced its own distributed cache.
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Accessibility Remains a Concern with Web 2.0 Applications
Making sure your website is accessible is both an important business and legal issue. Progressive enhancement and the ARIA specification can assist in addressing these concerns.
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Is Google Gears Positioned to Add Features to the Web?
After one year, some argue that "Gears" seems to be shifting its focus from enabling off-line Web applications to accelerating the development of new features to the Web, sometimes competing with HTML 5 and using an unfair competitive advantage: a browser in the browser. What do you think?
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Appistry Java/C++ Grid Fabric Goes Free for up to 5 Servers
Appistry recently released a free 5 server community edition of their EAF product. InfoQ sat down with VP Sam Charrington to discuss this move and Appistry's overall place in the grid/cloud computing landscape.
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Holly Widgets for GTK#
Last weekend a developer on the GTK# mailing list announced version 1.0 of a collection of widgets for Mono.
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Backbase 4.2 Includes New Data Services and Spring MVC Connector Among Its Features
Backbase released version 4.2 of their Enterprise Ajax for Java framework just over a week ago. This new release offers Java developers a complete AJAX platform with baked-in support for many of the frameworks they currently use, including Struts, Spring MVC and Java Server Faces.
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Nexaweb contributes code to the Dojo JavaScript Toolkit
Nexaweb has contributed new software to the Dojo Foundation that aims to advance the use of open source AJAX technology within a company's critical business applications. The software, dubbed 'dojo.E' is a set of extensions to the Dojo Toolkit, that bring XML into Dojo components and a new API for managing DOM modifications based on user interaction.
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Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework June 2008 CTP Released
Microsoft has just released the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework June 2008 CTP.
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Do Language Specific Libraries Belong in .NET?
There is a lot of basic functionality the .NET platform does not provide. For example, there is no built-in way to read CSV files, copy directories, or work with zip files. Well actually there is, but only if you dig deep enough.