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Presentation: Business Natural Languages Development in Ruby
In this presentation, Jay Fields introduces his concept of Business Natural Languages (BNL). BNLs are a type of Domain Specific Language, designed to be readable by any subject matter expert, which allows to create maintainable specifications and documentation. The example languages are implemented using Ruby.
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New PyAMF Release Improves Support for Google App Engine
PyAMF 0.3.1 was released this week, just in time to meet the increased interest on Python and RIA generated by the recent preview release of Google App Engine and the announcement of Adobe's Open Screen Project.
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Should you really learn another language?
Blogger Gustavo Duarte cursed in church when he said that learning new programming languages is often a waste of time. He said that "In reality learning a new language is a gritty business in which most of the effort is spent on low-value tasks with poor return on time invested.". But not everyone agreed.
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Presentation: Patterns for securing architectures
Security is about trade-offs you make with your limited resources, often a problem when designing a system or an after-thought. Few have the expertise to design good security and most development teams have no security expert. In this talk, Peter Sommerlad focuses on Security Patterns for designing security in architectures, such as Role-based Access Control, Single Access Point, and Front Door.
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F# 1.9.4 Available Now with Important Updates
Microsoft released an new version of its F# compiler, version 1.9.4. A version more polished and simplified.
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Tool Roundup for Silverlight
Many organizations are evaluating Silverlight for usage within their business applications. While official tool options today are limited to Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend there are other options.
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John Resig Speaks on Future Directions for jQuery and Javascript
jQuery creator and Mozilla Javascript Evangelist John Resig recently posted a video presentation outlining future release plans for the jQuery project and highlighting some exciting new Javascript features that will be coming soon to browsers.
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GemFire 5.5 Adds Continuous Query and Repeatable Read Support
The latest release of GemFire - an in-memory data management product - offers distributed event processing capabilities with the introduction of continuous querying and durable event notifications as well as other new features. InfoQ discussed with Jags Ramnarayan, Chief Architect at GemStone, about these new features and the product's roadmap.
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JNBridgePro 4.0 Introduces New Visual Studio and Eclipse Plug-ins
JNBridge, provider of Java and .NET interoperability tools, announced a new release of its core product, JNBridgePro, at JavaOne 2008.
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JavaOne 2008 Day 2 - Bean Validation Presentation and Oracle Fusion Middleware Preview
On day 2 of JavaOne 2008 conference, Emmanuel Bernard talked about Bean Validation framework (JSR 303). The goal of this specification is to provide a uniform way to express and implement the constraints in java applications. Earlier in the day, Oracle team previewed the upcoming features of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.
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Adobe Flex Coding Convention Document Triggered Discussions
On April 18, 2008, Adobe released its Flex SDK coding conventions and best practices. The release has triggered debate among developers in the Flex RIA community on what is the best way of coding in Flex or ActionScript.
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EQATEC Profiler: An Application Code Profiler for the .NET Compact Framework
EQATEC has recently released a free code profiler for applications written for the .NET Compact Framework.
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JavaFX at JavaOne 2008
So far, JavaOne has been heavy on JavaFX content. It is clear that a lot of work has been done since the initial announcement at last year’s conference. Although, the technologies do not appear to be ready for the typical developer.
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Java 6 Hotspot Performance
Sun Microsystem's Kohsuke Kawaguchi examines the assembly code that the Hotspot JIT produces in JDK6.
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SCA and JBI, Best of Both Worlds?
At JavaOne 2008, Jos Dirksen and Tijs Rademakers talked about using Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Java Business Integration</a> (JBI) frameworks together to get the best of both worlds. Using a sample application, they explained how to deploy an SCA application on a JBI container. In another SCA related session, Mike Edwards gave an overview of SCA architecture model.