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Introducing the ALT.NET Podcast
InfoQ learned about a new podcast recently called the ALT.NET Podcast. This podcast focusing on the community of developers brought together who represent what is ALT.NET. Folks should remember the ALT.NET term coined by David Laribee.
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Windows 7 Will Be the Next Operating System from Microsoft
Chris Flores, a Microsoft director on the Windows Client Communications Team, talks about the future of Windows.
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Releases: JRuby 1.1.2; New Preview of Ruby 1.8.7
JRuby 1.1.2 was released in time for RailsConf - coming with radically faster startup and YAML parsing and many bug fixes. Also: the final Ruby 1.8.7 release approaches. Ruby 1.8.7 preview 4, planned to be the last preview, reinstates the previously removed Symbol#to_proc, and adds Binding#eval, __method__, among some changes in number and date parsing.
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StyleCop – Microsoft's Style Enforcement Tool for C#
Style enforcement has long been a hotly debated topic. Not only are their arguments over what style a team should standardize on, but also on whether or not there should be a standard style at all. In a move that is sure to add fuel to the flames, Microsoft has released StyleCop, the style enforcement tool they use internally.
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Call for Microsoft to Release Spec#
Last month Greg Young initiated a grass roots effort asking for Microsoft to release Spec#.
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Oracle's Cameron Purdy Looks at 10 Patterns for Scaling Out
Oracle's Cameron Purdy recently presented on the topic of scalability at JavaOne 2008. The talk did not focus on specific Java libraries as do many talks at JavaOne. Instead general principles of architecture and design were reviewed from a pragmatic common sense angle.
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E4 summit debates on the future goals and directions of Eclipse
With only a few weeks to go until Ganymede is released, already the sights are set on the future of Eclipse, referred to as E4. A recent E4 Summit debated the future goals and directions of where Eclipse is going in the future.
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Interview: Orbitz.com Architecture with Brian Zimmer
In this interview filmed during QCon 2007, Brian Zimmer talks about the architectural challenges he has faced working on a a large web application as senior architect.
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C# Debate: When Should You Use var?
C# 3 added the keyword "var". This allows for local type inference when the compiler can unequivocally determine what type the variable should be. There is, however, some debate as to when it should be used.
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Article: FXRuby: Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby
"FXRuby: Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby" is a new book about the FXRuby GUI library. InfoQ talked to the book's author Lyle Johnson about FXRuby's implementation, threading and more. Also: an InfoQ-exclusive sample chapter from the book.
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JavaOne: Cliff Click on a Scalable Non-Blocking Coding Style
Dr Cliff Click, a distinguished engineer at Azul Systems, gave a talk at this year's JavaOne about a scalable, non-blocking coding style in Java. The coding style has allowed him to build several lock-free data structures in Java that successfully scale on processors with hundreds of cores.
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Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison Guide Available
Microsoft has published a comprehensive product comparison guide for Visual Studio 2008.
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Presentation: Intentional Software
Business users doing programming? Charles Simonyi and Henk Kolk presents how Intentional Software offers a radical new software approach that separates business knowledge from software engineering knowledge, which means that business experts can be more innovative and responsive to the changes in the domain.
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Architecture of a $7 Billion Loss: Causes and Remedies
PWC just released a report detailing the mechanisms that enabled a trader to mask a $75 B position. He was able to manipulate the state of a system by entering fake "technical" transactions used for simulations even though their amount was unusual, his role was not authorized to do so, and they were not later compensated. PWC also provided their recommendations to fix the systems and processes.
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ActiveMQ 5.1 Supports JMS Destination Monitoring and MSMQ Bridge
Apache ActiveMQ, an open source provider of enterprise messaging services, recently released version 5.1 which includes improvements in stability and performance of the message broker. This version also includes support for destination monitoring, priority message ordering and a Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) to ActiveMQ Bridge with the new msmq transport component.