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Is VSTS Meeting its Design Goals?
The goal of VSTS is to provide a tool that is not prescriptive and highly customizable for managing the software development process. Kevin Jones provides a soup to nuts framework for utilizing VSTS to support a development team and build better applications.
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Vendors Line Up Behind ADO.NET Entity Framework
Eight vendors have are planning to release drivers for ADO.NET Entity Framework within three months of RTM. IBM, MySQL AB, and a host for 3rd party vendors are targeting databases such as DB2, MySQL, and Oracle.
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NetKernel 3.3 Released Including Enhanced Dynamic Language Support
After eight months, 1060 Research, Ltd. has released the newest version of their NetKernel product, version 3.3. New features in this release include enhanced dynamic language support and an optimized HTTP transport layer.
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Scaffolding in ASP.NET: Dynamic Data Support
ASP.NET Dynamic Data Support is part of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions, which have been published as a CTP last week. It provides a scaffolding framework that allows rapid application development based on ASP.NET.
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Closures and Preserving the Feel of Java
During the last few years, there has been wide-ranging discussion about adding closures to the Java language, either as part of Java SE 7, or in some future, unspecified release. At Javapolis, Joshua Bloch presented his opinion about the controversy, and why he feels that CICE is a more suitable approach.
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Declarative, Imperative, and Task-based Parallelism in .NET
Daniel Moth has released four videos on Parallel Extensions for .NET. These cover the new declarative, imperative, and task-based parallelism APIs for the .NET framework.
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EviWare Releases v2.0 of soapUI, a Web Services Test Suite
EviWare, an open source company recently released v2.0 of their soapUI product at JavaPolis 2007. The test suite is capable of tracking test coverage, perform test refactoring based on updated WSDLs and creating mockup services from previously recorded requests/responses .
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Interview: Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software
Charles Simonyi, the President of Intentional Software and a recent space traveller presents his views on the future of software development. He talks about how to include domain experts in the development cycle by letting them express their intentions in domain specific languages, about Intentional's view on DSLs and Domain Driven Design and about what it was like to be a space tourist.
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DWR: State of the Union
There is a lot going on in the DWR world: DWR joining the Dojo Foundation; Joe Walker, creator of DWR, joining SitePen, Ltd. as Director of Support and Development; and an announcement of the features that are expected to be part of DWR 3.0.
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Complex VB Compiler Bug Results in Lines of Code Being Skipped
The full title of KB 945425 is "Lines of code may be missing if you compile a solution that has a complex project structure in Visual Studio 2008". They are not kidding, you need a complex mix of at least 5 projects, some of which are referenced by both file and project to trigger this.
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More on RPC in Adobe Flex Applications with AMF, BlazeDS, and/or GraniteDS
Last week, Adobe made a major change to the Adobe Flex Platform with the announcement that much of LiveCycle Data Services is being open sourced in the BlazeDS project, including the AMF specification and code. This change should eliminate one of the final cost and licensing barriers for those considering adopting the Flex Platform.
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RSpec 1.1 - A Step Up for BDD advocates
RSpec has become a poster child for both Domain Specific Languages and Behavior Driven Development (BDD), a type of Test Driven Development. The new RSpec 1.1 release adds improved support for Rails and other improvements.
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Amazon's SimpleDB and IBM's Blue Cloud Continue the Rise of Cloud Computing
Earlier this week Amazon introduced a beta of SimpleDB, a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. SimpleDB compliments Amazon's other computing services Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2. The announcement comes roughly a month after IBM announced their Blue Cloud initiative.
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IBM Adds PowerShell Support for WebSphere MQ
PowerShell is starting to gain acceptance with major players. IBM has announced that WebSphere MQ can now be managed using PowerShell. WebSphere objects such as Channels, Listeners, Queues, and Services can be created, examined, and modified from the command line. IBM's WMQ blog has posted a series on how to perform these actions.
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SpringSource Announces Commercial Software Strategy, Spring Integration
At The Spring Experience yesterday, SpringSource (the company behind Spring) announced their commercial software subscription strategy as well as Spring Integration, a new EAI framework. Spring Certification will also be coming in 2008. InfoQ video interviewed Spring founder Rod Johnson & SpringSource COO Neelan Choksi to get the news from the source.