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Phusion Passenger/mod_rails makes Rails deployment easy
Phusion Passenger/mod_rails makes deployment of Rails apps simple. The Apache configuration is handled by a script and re-deployment is a single 'touch' away. We talked to the creators of Phusion Passenger who also experiment with a modified Ruby Garbage Collector to share memory across address space borders.
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Interview: Attila Szegedi Discusses Rhino
In this interview, Attila Szegedi discusses the Rhino JavaScript engine. Topics covered include the implementation of Rhino, Rhino's featureset, continuations, usage patterns for embedding Rhino, running JavaScript on the server, scripting capabilities for Rhino, JavaScript versus Ruby, JavaScript on Rails, and future plans for Rhino.
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Ruby 1.8.7 Preview released, includes some backports from 1.9
The first preview of Ruby 1.8.7 is now available. Among bug fixes, this new release of the stable branch includes backports of a few features from Ruby 1.9, such as Object#tap, Symbol#to_proc and Enumerators.
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Free Phalanger IDE Released
A free IDE has been released for Phalanger, a PHP that runs on the .NET platform. The IDE is based on Visual Studio Shell.
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Robotics Developer Studio 2008 CTP Available for Download
Microsoft has recently made available for download the Robotics Developer Studio 2008 CTP.
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eBay's Presentation Architecture and Eclipse
eBay insider Michael Galpin has written a two part article describing the evaluation of eBay's presentation architecture from its early Perl roots to a Java solution using Eclipse plug-ins and code generators to improve the developer experience.
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Heroku and Morph AppSpaces: two new solutions to Rails hosting
Heroku and Morph Labs are Ruby on Rails hosting providers, offering a complete stack of software and easy to use interfaces to get your applications up and running in a few minutes. We talked to both parties to find out more about their offers.
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Review: Exception Hunter
Unhandled exceptions are the bane of any application, especially those that run without user interaction. Red Gate has developed a product to detect and alert developers to these potential issues, but does it measure up?
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Review of Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed
Normally our book reviews on InfoQ start at mostly positive and go up from there. But once in a while we come across a lemon, and WCF Unleashed is one of them. Written by four authors, the book reads as though all four authors voted on the words for each sentence.
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Spring Web Services 1.5 Released
After 6 months of work, Spring Web Services 1.5.0 has been release. Based off contract-first development using SOAP service development, Spring-WS can be manipulated through XML to create document-driven Web services. Some of the highlights of the release include:
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Try to get the best of your Statically Typed Language
The use of dynamic type-checking in static languages is often perceived as unavoidable on complex projects, even though workarounds necessary to enforce it tend to negatively impact the quality of code. According to Debasish Ghosh, features in static languages, i.e. Java generics, offer an opportunity to avoid runtime type checking and optimize the advantages of static typing.
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Comparing JEE Servers
When picking which JEE server to use for your application, you have a number of choices to select from. Knowing which application server is the best is key. Recently Jonathan Campbell took a handful of JEE application servers, coming up with surprising results as well as informative comments.
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A Preview of Mingle 2.0
On April 15th Thoughtworks will release Mingle 2.0, nine months after the initial release of Mingle. InfoQ got some time with product manager Adam Monago to talk through the new functionality provided by Mingle 2.0.
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Microsoft Unity Dependency Injection Application Block Released
The Microsoft patterns & practices group has released its Dependency Injection container called Unity or the Unity Application Block. Developers can now create loosely coupled applications that are extensible using this lightweight container.
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F#: What to Expect from It in the Near Future?
In recent posts, Brian McNamara and Don Syme, of the F# research team, have shed some light on their plans for the near future.