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Interview: Eric Evans on Domain Driven Design
Ever since Eric Evans wrote the book Domain-Driven Design in 2004 he has been a significant voice advancing domain modeling and design concepts. In this interview with Floyd Marinescu he talks about some of the recent refinements in Domain-Driven Design and how people are advancing the field today.
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Test Driven Code Reuse
Code reuse has been the holy grail of software development for a long time. Historically we've tried to achieve code reuse through abstractions and frameworks, which came with their own technical debt. There is now a novel approach that leverages the power of search tools and automated developer tests to search open-source code for matches against interface and behavior.
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jQuery UI 1.0 Includes Mouse Interaction, User Interface Extensions, and Effects Features
As promised last week the jQuery team has released jQuery UI 1.0. jQuery UI is a fully themed interaction and widget library built on top of jQuery.
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Book Excerpt and Review: Filthy Rich Clients - Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop
InfoQ is privileged to provide both a review and chapter excerpt of the new book Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications.
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Enterprise Application Platform 4.2: First JBoss release under RedHat support model
JBoss, a division of RedHat, recently announced the first release of their Enterprise Application Platform (EAP), which is based off of JBoss Application Server 4.2. InfoQ took the opportunity to learn more about this release and the potential changes it brings.
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Visual Basic and C#: Differences in Nullable Types
When .NET 1.0 was released, VB and C# were very similar. But with the fourth version nearing release, the differences are really mounting. Today we look at the subtle differences in nullable types that can trip up developers.
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GlassFish V2 Brings Clustering, Administration, and Speed Enhancements
Today Sun Microsystems released GlassFish V2. GlassFish is an open source Java EE 5 compliant application server. InfoQ sat down with Sun Community Development and Marketing Manager Ken Drachnik to discuss the features of V2.
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CodeGear Releases Ruby/Rails IDE with Intelligent Completion of Dynamic Methods
Today CodeGear released their Ruby/Rails IDE 3rdRail. Among the IDE's key features are intelligent code completion, refactoring support, and a project aware command line interface.
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Has JPA Killed the DAO?
Recent developer discussion has explored whether JPA has killed the DAO pattern. DAO supporters argue that it isn't going anywhere soon however.
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Grails 0.6 Adds Best of Breed Mix From Spring Web Flow and Rich Conversations a la JBoss
Graeme Rocher announced Grails 0.6 which moves further away from "its Rails-like beginnings" but adds Spring WebFlow rich conversations.
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Adobe's James Ward on Upcoming Flex 3 Enhancements and Silverlight
Adobe has been working hard on their upcoming Adobe Flex 3.0 release, expected in early 2008. Adobe Flex is a developer toolset for building Rich Internet Applications that run in the browser with Flash Player or on the desktop with Adobe AIR. InfoQ talked with Adobe’s James Ward, Technical Evangelist, to learn more about the upcoming release.
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HDIV 2.0: Security framework now integrates with Spring MVC and JSTL
HDIV, an open-source web application security framework, recently released version 2.0. InfoQ spoke with HDIV project lead Roberto Velasco Sarasola to learn more about this release.
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Confusing unit-of-work with threads
Most server-side applications and many desktop applications contains data that is tied to a particular task that’s being executed. A common solution is to keep that kind of data in thread-local storage; to keep the data in variables bound to the executing thread. Convenient, but a practice based on a faulty assumption.
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Stephan T. Lavavej on the future of C++
On the Microsoft Visual C++ blog Stephan T. Lavavej, a library developer, speculates about the future of the C++ language.
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JSR 277 and JSR 291 Interoperability threatened by lack of a prototype
The latest salvo in the discussion of JSR 277, JSR 291, and OSGi appeared last week in the form of a post by Glyn Normington, spec lead for JSR 291 and Expert Group member for JSR 277. He is concerned that the Expert Group has not been presented with a strawman yet and that the Expert Group will end up merely rubber stamping the strawman rather than discussing it in detail and making changes.