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Creating a RESTful API with WCF
Aaron Sloman and Haider Sabri gave a talk about "Creating a RESTful API with WCF" at MIX08 introducing a sample REST application called RESTChess.
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LINQ Framework Design Guidelines
Now that LINQ has been finalized and released, it is time to start thinking about the ways to use it. Keith Farmer even talks about using it eliminate subclasses. But before we get into that, let us take a look at the official guidance from Microsoft.
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XSLT Profiling in VS 2008
Microsoft's XML Team has released a preview of their XSLT profiler for VS 2008. Unfortunately, only Team System users get to try it out.
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Future Focus: Call Hierarchy in Visual Studio
The Visual Studio team has started to shed some light on the current development of Visual Studio, revealing some of the features that will most likely be available in the next release of Microsoft's IDE, and inviting everyone to comment on those features while in their incipient phase.
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The Buzz on SQL Server 2008 CTP6
Community Technology Preview 6 has been in developer's hands for almost a month.
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Rapid web development with J2EE Spider
J2EE Spider re-invigorates J2EE RAD development with visual interfaces (supplied via Eclipse) for generating code and round-trip engineering.
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Article: Deploying JRuby Applications with Java Web Start
JRuby allows to make application deployment easy by allowing to use Java Web Start. This article walks through the necessary steps for deploying a JRuby GUI application (an Object Browser). Additionally, it looks at Ahead Of Time (AOT) Compilation, a new feature in JRuby 1.1, which allows to compile Ruby code to Java bytecode at build time.
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Download Links for Mix08 Technologies
As Mix08 wound down Tim Sneath published a consolidated list of download links for bits released during the conference.
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Performance Fix Available for VS 2008 and a Surprise Note about VBScript
In an attempt to be more responsive, Microsoft is trying to publicly release hot-fixes more frequently. This hot fix affects the performance of VS 2008 when editing web pages.
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RIATest for Flex Released Beta Product
RIATest, a Flex GUI test automation tool released the beta product to public. InfoQ spoke to Tigran Najaryan, the founder and creator of RIATest, about this release.
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David Pollak on lift and Scala
With the release of lift 0.6, the web application framework for Scala, InfoQ took the opportunity to ask David Pollak some questions around lift and developing in Scala.
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Common Questions when Adopting TDD
If you are new to TDD you may be struggling with some common questions such as: How much upfront design should I tolerate? Or, when writing a test you have to build interfaces and some classes to get it to even compile - how far do you let that go?
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Decompiling Silverlight 2 Applications
From time to time, developers may need to decompile a Silverlight 2 application. Fortunately it turns out Silverlight applications are conveniently bundled into zip files.
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JVM Dynamic Language Shootout
Travis Jensen compares Groovy, Jython and JRuby for developing web based user interfaces.
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Released to Developers
Last week Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 with most feature updates targetted squarely at developers.