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Red Hat Joins Open JDK Community
Red Hat announced that it is joining the OpenJDK project and has licensed the OpenJDK Community Test Compatibility Kit (TCK).
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Dojo Toolkit 1.0 is Released with Google Gears Integration, Accessibility Support and Charting
The Dojo Foundation has released Dojo Toolkit 1.0. Dojo is used in products from companies such as AOL, BEA, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.
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The Forgotten Ruby Web Frameworks
With the success of Ruby on Rails, is there a place left for other Web frameworks written in Ruby? Everyone knows Rails, some might even have heard of Merb and Camping, but has anyone heard of Nitro, Ramaze, Sinatra, IOWA or Cerise? InfoQ quickly tours these frameworks and how they are appreciated (or ignored) by the blogosphere.
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Oslo: Microsoft Gets it but Hurry !
There has been few comments on Microsoft's Oslo announcement. In general they are positive but people are worried about the timeline and complexity of the project. Very few people commented on the in-the-cloud services that complement Oslo.
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Single Sign-On beyond the firewall
Taking a look at the challenges that lay ahead in the quest for Federated Identity Management.
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JBoss Releases Seam 2.0 with Groovy Support and JSF Enhancements
Today the JBoss Seam team released Seam 2.0. This version comes 8 month after the last major release and includes deployment and web services enhancements in addition to support for JSF 1.2.
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IBM Discusses Record Setting SPECj Results and the Benchmarking Process
IBM WebSphere Application Server recently established new heights for SPECjAppServer2004 benchmarks in performance and scalability. InfoQ was able to talk to Andrew Spyker and John Stecher of IBM about the results and the benchmarking process.
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Visual Studio 2008 to be Released this Month
Today Somasegar, vice president of Microsoft's Developer Division, announced that .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 will be released by the end of November.
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First JRuby 1.1 beta and JRuby 1.0.2 released
The first JRuby 1.1 beta was just released, shortly after the stable branch was updated with JRuby 1.0.2. Among many new features and better performance, ObjectSpace is now disabled by default in 1.1.
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Agile Events Calendar Update
Dozens of events are listed on the AgileEvents calender, both commercial and non-profit. Events include user groups, coding dojos, training, conferences. All events focus on Agile/Lean process, facilitation, management, product ownership, methodologies and related practices. Where will you spend your training budget? Maybe there's something coming up close to home - wherever you are!
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WebTest vs. Selenium: Real and Simulated Browser Testing
Choosing between functional testing tools that drive a real web browser, like Selenium, and those that simulate a browser, like Canoo WebTest? Marc Guillemot compared the two, and in his opinion, WebTest wins, with a score of 13-5.
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JSLoader Provides Shared Sourcing of JavaScript Libraries
JSLoader, a non-intrusive “JavaScript-on-demand” packaging convention has been released to help manage the growing complexity of JavaScript libraries and their dependencies.
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Article: Beyond Foundations of F#
Since Robert Pickering published Foundations of F# in May, the language has grown significantly. Besides adding a host of new features, it is being moved from a research project to a fully supported, production-grade release. We asked Robert to discuss some of the new features in F#.
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ThoughtWorks Releases Mingle 1.1
Mingle R1.1 is out, just 3 months after after the first release, packed with new functionality driven by user feedback from the launch and beta period. In December R1.2 will be released.
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Apache to incubate its first Ruby Project: Buildr - Ruby Build System for Java Projects
Buildr is a simple and intuitive build system for Java projects. After 10 months of development and a lot of positive feedback, it will be incubated by the Apache Foundation, which will be opening its doors to its first Ruby project.