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Framework Design Studio Released
Krzysztof Cwalina, along with Hongping Lim and David Fowler, has developed an API management tool they call the Framework Design Studio. This tool can be used to compare different versions of .NET APIs. Users can also append comments to APIs and export them as Word documents.
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Amazon upgrades EC2 with Persistent Storage
Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2), which delivers Hardware as a Service (HaaS), is adding persistent storage to its list of features. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels write that "Persistent storage for Amazon EC2 will be offered in the form of storage volumes which you can mount into your EC2 instance as a raw block storage device."
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StrokeDB, Just Another Distributed Database? Not Really.
As Distributed Databases get more and more interest, implementations are flourishing. CouchDB showed the way and is now incubated as an Apache project. RDDB was one of the first Ruby implementation of a Document-Oriented Distributed Database. We will check how a new database, StrokeDB, differentiates itself in the area with new promising features.
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Presentation: JRuby: Not Just Another JVM Language
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, JRuby project lead Charles Nutter discusses the Ruby and JRuby featureset, the JRuby compiler, calling Java from JRuby and vice versa, programming Swing with JRuby, JRuby web applications, JRuby on Rails, persistence, build automation, Test-Driven Development and Behaviour-Driven Development.
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Combining General Purpose Languages and Domain Specific Languages for Model Driven Engineering
In his last blog post, Johan den Haan asks one of the key questions of model driven engineering. The article is didactic and explains how ontological and linguistic metamodels can be combined (orthogonally) to simplify code generation while enabling the combination of general purpose languages and domain specific languages concepts. He uses BPEL and BPMN as a supporting example.
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IntelliJ IDEA Supports Flex Development
JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA is one of Java developers' the most favorite development IDEs. The recent IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3 release includes some new features supports Flex application development. To understand how Flex RIA developers can utilize InitelliJ's new features and future plan for Flex, InfoQ spoke with Ann Oreshnikova, marketing director of JetBrains.
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Visual Rails Workbench available now from SapphireSteel Software
SapphireSteel Software released an update to their Ruby development environment known as Ruby in Steel 1.2 which includes the new Visual Rails Workbench.
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Article: Building Domain Specific Languages on the CLR
Ayende Rahien describes how to build internal DSLs on the CLR. He compares different .NET languages as suitable host languages for DSLs and presents Boo as an ideal candidate due to its meta programming facilities, flexibility, and performance.
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APIFinder - Your Guide to APIs
Developers today are constantly creating applications that consume services of other web sites. Consuming these services requires figuring out and understanding the sometimes complex Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
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Hands-off Load Testing with JMeter and Ant
Automation expert Paul Duvall highlights in a recent post the value of earlier and continuous integration of load tests throughout the development cycle and presents simple step-by-step techniques to create a scheduled integration build that runs JMeter tests.
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Code Project Browser for VS 2005/2008
SlickEdit has created an Add-On for Visual Studio that integrates with the popular site, The Code Project.
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Flex Startup Helps Learning New Languages
It's not uncommon lately for startup companies utilizing RIA technologies to delivery their ideas and services. Adobe Flex based startup Babbel is one good example. To allow our readers learn the insight on how a Flex startup's architecture is designed and implemented, InfoQ spoke with Thomas Holl, CTO of Lesson Nine GmbH, the company behind Babbel.
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Spring Web Flow 2.0.0.RC1 Released; Adds Ajax, JSF, and Security Integration
InfoQ sat down with Keith Donald and Jeremy Grelle of the Spring Web team to discuss the release of Web Flow 2.0.0.RC1, the first production release candidate for the next major release of Web Flow. Web Flow is an extension to Spring MVC for implementing flows in a web application.
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LINQ Tooling
Besides the ubiquitous praise within the community, LINQ has quite a steep learning curve. Two tools, VLinq and LINQpad, try to help developers become more familiar with the LINQ syntax.
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Security for Services and Mashups
Security has become a rising concern in most applications and systems today. Whether you are building small mashups, enterprise applications, or a platform for SOA, there are several issues and approaches that are being discussed. Erica Naone talked about dealing with security in the world of mashups recently while Bob Rhubart and David Garrison from BEA discussed securing the services you deploy.