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  • NUnit 2.5 Alpha released

    NUnit one of the original .NET Unit Testing frameworks has just released its 2.5 Alpha. Altough there is only a minor version number change there are a significant number of new features, including: Support for Data Driven Tests, a Parallel Test Runner, ...

  • Client-Server Computing: The Future Web?

    The most recent buzz on the web has been about Ajax and improved user experiences. Looking to the future, some suggest that the "old" client-server model will be the way to meet users expectations and demands. Could Client-Server computing be the follow-on to Web 2.0 technologies?

  • What Social Networks Are Teaching Us About Data Portability

    As more social networking sites are popping up, the questions around the data they keep are rising. Data portability has become the watch phrase across the Web 2.0 world. Is there something to be learned about data access and portability from these services?

  • Firefox 3 RC1 Adds Javascript 1.8, Microformat Support and More

    The Mozilla project has released Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). New features in Firefox 3 include support for Javascript 1.8, DOM and HTML changes, microformats support, and an extended Canvass implementation.

  • Is ADO.NET Entity Framework Enterprise Ready?

    The ADO.NET Entity Framework relies heavily on visual modeling tools. But are these tools really appropriate for large scale development?

  • Microsoft Enterprise Libarary 4.0 Released for Visual Studio 2008

    Microsoft released a version of their Enterprise Library 4.0 for Visual Studio 2008 and at the same time, Unity 1.1 application block, their dependency injection container.

  • Integrate Flex with Spring Framework

    As rich-Internet application (RIA) technologies mature, it is becoming increasingly important to integrate RIA applications, such as Adobe Flex, with robust server-side services. One of Java developers' favorite server-side frameworks, Spring, could play an important role in this process. Here are some examples.

  • An Explanation of the Phoenix Compiler Framework

    Andy Ayers, an architect on the Phoenix Framework, tries to explain what the Phoenix Compiler Framework is and how it works in a video made by Channel9.

  • Interview: James Ward discusses Flex and AIR

    In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2007, James Ward discusses Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), Flex and AIR, how Flex helps in the development of RIAs, the changes in ActionScript 3, the Tamarin engine, desktop and offline capabilities, Flex Builder, the Flex developer community, LiveCycle Data Services, the AMF protocol, RIA development trends, and the Flex component model.

  • InfoQ China Colour Scheme Goes Gray in Consideration of Earthquake Victims

    As China began a three-day official mourning period from May 19th for victims of the May 12 earthquake that happened in Sichuan Province in southwestern China, InfoQ China joined other tech sites and on Monday and changed the whole site's colour scheme to gray as an act to express its mourning.

  • Is P2 ready for Eclipse?

    Eclipse P2 provides a sophisticated way of downloading both OSGi bundles and other artefacts (such as the platform-specific launcher). Its aim is to both replace the Update Manager, and provide a number of improvements to the download process, including multi-threaded downloads and even a standalone installer for Eclipse applications. However, is it ready for next month's Ganymede release?

  • Will Sun Add SCA Integration to the Java EE Specification?

    While in the past, the Java community debated over backing SCA or JBI, there are some signs that both of them might be formally incorporated into Java EE 6.

  • Servlet 3.0 Features Spark Debate

    The draft specification of JSR-315 (Servlet 3.0) is now available and introduces a number of new features including asynchronous/Comet support, security improvements, and other ease of development features such additional annotations and web.xml fragments. With some of the new features generating considerable debate, the expert group are actively seeking community feedback.

  • The ADO.NET Entity Framework Sparks a Debate

    A recent blog post written by Danny Simmons, a Microsoft ADO.NET developer, about the ADO.NET Entity Framework has started a series of reactions about the respective topic.

  • Presentation: Getting Started with Grails

    In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Jason Rudolph gives an overview and demonstration of Grails. Topics covered include Java/Grails integration, Grails plugins, creating a complete Grails sample application from scratch, the structure of a Grails application, data querying and persistence, validation, controllers and tag libraries.

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