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Interview: Dave Thomas on Ruby, Rails and Choosing the Right Tool
Pragmatic Programmer Dave Thomas, author of the pickaxe book Programming Ruby, and co-author of Agile Web Development with Rails and The Pragmatic Programmer, found some time to talk with InfoQ about Ruby, Rails and the importance of choosing the right tool for the job.
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.NET Compact Announced for Symbian OS
Red Five Labs is bringing the .NET Compact Framework to S60 and the Symbian OS. Symbian is the market leader for smart phone operating systems. In 1995, S60 alone had a 58% market share. Overall, 72% of devices were running S60 or some other variant of Symbian.
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Teleconferencing: How To Keep 'Em Engaged
While Agile processes recommend to colocate team members for synergy, it's not always possible. More and more projects are utilizing talent from locations all over the world to solve various problems. In these cases leaders and facilitators can contribute significantly to teamwork by mastering the ability to run effective remote meetings.
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Catching up with Apache Felix OSGi Container
Felix is the Apache implementation of OSGi Release 4 specification. Richard Hall, a project committer, did a presentation on Felix at ApacheCon last month. InfoQ spoke to Richard about current state and future roadmap of the Felix project.
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Presentation: Werner Vogels on The Amazon.com Technology Platform: Building Blocks for Innovation
In a presentation recorded at QCon, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels explains how Amazon has become a platform provider, and how an increasing number of diverse businesses are built on this platform. Although Amazon.com's scale makes them seem an extreme case, lessons have been learnt that will be of use to every enterprise looking to provide services to or to consume services of business partners.
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Article: What's New in Groovy 1.5
Over the weekend the Groovy team released version 1.5 which contains numerous Java 5 language additions, enhanced tooling support, and performance improvements. In conjunction with Groovy Project Manager Guillaume Laforge, InfoQ is running an article detailing the new features of the release.
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VisualSVN – An Alternative to Team Foundation Server
Developers looking for an alternative to Visual SourceSafe have a lot more options than shelling out big bucks for Rational ClearCase or Microsoft's Team Foundation Server. Today we introduce VisualSVN, a commercial Subversion offering.
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Engine Yard Bets Big on Rubinius
One of the best kept secrets at this year's RubyConf was the working whereabouts of two of Ruby's hottest superstar developers: Ryan Davis and Eric Hodel of Seattle.rb. Ryan revealed the secret last week: they've officially joined Engine Yard to work full-time on next-generation Ruby runtime Rubinius.
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ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP - ASP.NET MVC, Data Services, Dynamic Data and Silverlight Support
Yesterday, Microsoft published the long-awaited first ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP (Customer Technology Preview). The extensions package includes the ASP.NET MVC Framework, AJAX improvements, Dynamic Data support, Silverlight support, and ADO.NET Data Services.
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Top 10 Adobe Flex Misconceptions
At QCon, Adobe's James Ward shared with InfoQ.com the top Adobe Flex misconceptions that he encounters in his travels evangelizing the Flex application framework.
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Volta - the future of web development on .NET?
Microsoft Live Labs has released Volta - a technology preview of a developer toolset that will enable developers to build multi-tier web applications faster. Announced under the slogan "Web application development using only the materials in the room", Volta allows developers to target either web browsers or the desktop by handling tier-splitting under the covers.
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Does Dependency Injection pay off?
There has been an interesting discussion in the blogosphere about the benefits or lack of benefits from using Dependency Injection. The question is — does Dependency Injection really pay off?
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Zoho Leverages Google Gears to Provide Offline Support for Ajax Applications
Zoho, a online office productivity software company, recently extended its flagship AJAX based RIA product Zoho Writer with offline capabilities using Google Gears. InfoQ.com spoke to Raju Vegesna of Zoho to learn more about the process.
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Discussing 5+ Ways to Trace Java Execution
A new blog post by Zviki Cohen looks at 5 ways to trace Java execution. The resulting discussion also brings valuable angles worth consideration.
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Kijaro Project Provides Playground to Add Language Features to the OpenJDK
Built on a copy of the Open JDK javac compiler, a new project Kijaro has laid the groundwork for developers to add their desired features to Java.