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Sun purchases MySQL: Perspectives and Analysis on the Impact
In a move which caught many off guard, Sun Microsystems announced that it would be acquiring MySQL AB, the company which owns and develops the MySQL database, for $1 Billion USD. InfoQ analyzed the announcement and reactions and spoke with Kevin Harvey, Chairman of the MySQL board of directors, to learn more about this deal and what it may mean for the future.
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Up and Running with SQLite on .NET in 3 Minutes
SQLite is an open source database that has been growing in popularity. It's footprint is small and is used in a wide-variety of types of applications.
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Treetop - PEG parser generator for Ruby
Parsing Expression Grammars (PEG) are a type of recursive descent parsers that have become quite popular recently. Now Ruby gets its own PEG parser generator with Treetop.
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Gigaspaces Launches OpenSpaces Community Portal
Gigaspaces, a company known for providing software solutions, has launched a new community website OpenSpaces.org. GigaSpaces is also allowing individuals and startup-companies under $5 million in revenue to use GigaSpaces products for free of charge under its Start-Up Program.
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Java Scripting Wish List
With the release of Java 6 and JSR 223, developers now have the option of being able to have inter-operability between Java and any of the supported scripting language. Mark Fortner has been exploring the capabilities of the Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) with JSR 223, and has found a number of items that could be improved.
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QCon London March 12-14 Update: Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Google, Amazon, Yahoo!
QCon's second annual conference in London, UK is taking place in just 8 weeks, March 12-14. In the last month, a number of important additions have been made to the conf: XP founder Kent Beck, author Martin Fowler, sessions from Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, Salesforce.com, MySpace.com, eBay, Merrill, Betfair, Credit Suisse, and others. Gang of Four Patterns author Erich Gamma is also presenting.
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Oracle to Acquire BEA Systems
Oracle and BEA reach an agreement wherein Oracle buys BEA's outstanding shares for ~$19. How will they resolve their product-line redundancies? Reactions are interesting and varied, and the spectre of insider trading has already been reaised.
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.NET Source Code Available for Debugging
The source code for several key .NET libraries is now available for debugging purposes. They are not "open source" in the sense you can do anything you want with them, instead there is a strict "look but don't touch" license known as the Microsoft Reference License. Even still, they should be an immense resource to .NET developers.
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Christian Weyer on Service Oriented Communication
Communication is everywhere. The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) can be used to design and develop service-oriented distributed solutions. Christian Weyer provides a practical approach to realizing distributed solutions with WCF - beyond the hype and 'Hello World'.
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Request: Sun, Drop Support for JRuby
Rick Hightower requests that Sun drop their support for JRuby in place of Groovy. The community has replied in the form of comments and blog posts to agree with and argue against Rick's position. Another battle in the language wars of 2008.
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Interview: The State of IronRuby with John Lam
InfoQ had the opportunity to talk with John Lam about how far along the IronRuby team is getting IronRuby released.
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WCF Communication Options in the .NET Framework 3.5
David Chappell, Principal of Chappell & Associates, presents the various communication styles provided by Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in his white paper called "Dealing with Diversity: Understanding WCF Communication Options in the .NET Framework 3.5".
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Ivy 2.0: Released As An Apache Project
Ivy, a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) project dependencies which provides tight integration with Apache Ant, has released its 2.0 beta version. This is the first release as an Apache project, it brings enhanced compatibility with Maven 2 repositories, improved concurrency support and a few other significant changes.
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Microsoft: MEDC Cancelled
Microsoft is closing shop on a popular conference targetted at mobile device application developers.
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Agile Kanban: Visual Tracking Beyond the Team Room
In the beginning Agile was largely a developer-driven initiative, sometimes improving development processes only to find the real bottlenecks lay outside developer control. In his latest InfoQ article, Kenji Hiranabe analyses Lean manufacturing's "Kanban" visual tracking tool, how it differs from the Agile taskboard, and how it helps identify more far-reaching improvements.