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Gordon Pask Award Recipients Announced
At the Agile2007 Conference banquet on Thursday last week, the recipients of the Gordon Pask Award for Contribution to Agile Practice were announced: Jeff Patton "the Usability Guy" and Naresh Jain, instigator of usergroups, conferences and more. In addition, Dale Emery received the brand new Ward Cunningham "Gentle Voice of Reason" award.
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VB6 to VB.NET Conversions: Still Not a Reality
Another piece of key VB 6 functionality, line and shape controls, has finally made it in to a VB 8 PowerPack. But for VB 6 developers looking to migrate is it too little, too late.
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W3C Publishes an Update to Guide to Versioning XML Schema 1.1
The W3C published last month an update to its "Guide to Versioning XML Languages Using new XML Schema 1.1 features" which details the new features of XML Schema 1.1 in the context of schema versioning. They represent real advances for web service practitioners and should become part of your guidelines and best practices when the W3C releases XML Schema 1.1.
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IBM affirms Restful SOA & dynamic languages with Project Zero
In a recent interview, IBM WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo affirms that REST has become a core focus for IBM with Project Zero, a new web application development framework continues the trend away from pure java and towards dynamic languages for web application development and also emphasizes RESTful service development.
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Microsoft Patterns & Practices Team publishes Repository Factory
The Repository Factory is a new guidance package from the Microsoft Patterns & Practices Team. It replaces the Data Access Guidance Package, which has been integrated into the Web Service Software Factory (WSSF).
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Adobe Announces HD Video Support for Flash and AIR
Adobe has announced that the Flash Player and their AIR application platform will support the H.264 codec, the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray® and HD-DVD® high definition video players. They are also adding High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support.
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Dojo 0.9 Goes Final with Significant Performance Improvements
Dojo 0.9 final version was released today after close to 7 weeks in beta release. This release scales down the code base, removing unnecessary items. At the same time significant performance improvements have been made.
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Retire Microsoft's Four SOA tenets?
Microsoft's Harry Pierson (a.k.a. DevHawk) suggest that Microsoft's own 4 tenets for SOA should be retired because, well, they are, in Harry's opinion, useless - at least they are not useful anymore.
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Do You Need a Data Layer?
With LINQ nearing release, the need for a separate data access layer needs to be reevaluated. Is it still an essential part of an application's design? Or has it become an appendix of the past?
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TW Team Wins with Cure for "Developer Abuse"
The AgileAdvert contest asked "So you want to be a famous Agilist?" At Agile2007's Google reception, the audience voted to make the sad ThoughtWorks clip "Developer Abuse" the no.1 video, so "Matthew" is this year's Famous Agilist (name changed to protect the innocent). Other winners featured singing, dancing, a beating, "outside the box" thinking, expletives (deleted), and charming children.
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Does Adobe AIR's Future Include An Office Competitor?
A piece on wired.com featuring Adobe's Mike Downey early last week, Tipping the Microsoft Cash Cow Could Be Adobe's Next Move, set off a lot of speculation and debate about their intentions and the opportunities in the Office Suite space. Downey clarified his remarks later in the week to reaffirm Adobe's focus on AIR as a platform.
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Prototype 1.6 RC Includes DOM Builder and Event API Overhaul
Earlier this month the Prototype team released the first RC of 1.6.0. This release contains a number of core API upgrades, bug fixes, and new features. The Event API has been overhauled and a new DOM Builder API has also been added.
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Linked-In, Second Life, eBay, Orbitz, Yahoo! architectures to be presented @ QCon SF
The 'architectures you've always wondered about' track at QCon San Francisco this year will be featuring the architectures of Linked-In, Second Life, eBay, Orbitz, & Yahoo!, presented directly from key architects at those companies. QCon itself also has a number of other tracks on architecture, Java, .NET, Ruby, Agile, research technologies, and more.
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Erlang's Mnesia - a distributed DBMS for highly scalable apps
Not every application has the scalability requirements of Google, Flickr or Amazon, however the ideas behind the Mnesia DBMS are compelling: a fast, in-process DBMS that takes advantage of concurrency, with the ability to replicate tables across distributed nodes for high scalability and fault tolerance.