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Spring IDE 2.0 Adds Web Flow and AOP Development Tools
Version 2.0 of Spring IDE was released today. This release includes support for Spring Web Flow and Spring AOP development tools. InfoQ took the opportunity to speak with Christian Dupuis, Spring IDE co-lead, in order to learn more about this release.
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Presentation: Justin Smith on CLR Internals
Justin Smith, Technical Evangelist for Windows Communication Foundation at Microsoft, delivered this devLink presentation on the .NET CLR Internals. Justin begins with an overview of the memory management model and then focuses different areas of the CLR and primarily the Garbage Collector.
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Steve Yegge Ports Rails to Javascript/Rhino
At Foo Camp this past weekend, Steve Yegge of Google gave a talk called "Google Rails Clone" where, as John Lam reports, he talked about his experience porting Ruby on Rails to Javascript at Google. InfoQ summarized the community reaction and took the opportunity to speak with Steve Yegge, who was kind enough to answer some questions.
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Visual Studio Multi-Targeting Update
One of the most visible deficiencies in Visual Studio is that each version is tied to a specific version of the CLR. For example, it is impossible to create anything but .NET 2.0 applications using Visual Studio 2005. Visual Studio 2008 partially addresses this issue with what Microsoft calls multi-targeting.
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OpenJPA adopted by both IBM and BEA; becomes top-level Apache project
Apache OpenJPA has been gaining momentum in the JEE world, having been adopted by BEA as the EJB3 JPA implementation in WebLogic Server 10 and in the most recent EJB3 Feature Pack for IBM WebSphere Application Server. OpenJPA started its life in BEA's Kodo product, whose code was donated to the ASF in 2006; the project just recently graduated from the Apache Incubator as well.
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Sparse Columns Added to SQL Server 2008
SQL Server 2008 has lifted the limit of 1024 columns per table with a new option called "sparse columns". While this seems like its excessive, some developers have been running up against this limit.
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InfoQ Interview: Rich Kilmer on the Power of Ruby
Rich Kilmer is one of the Ruby world's great conversationalists and storytellers. In this InfoQ exclusive interview, Rich tells us about using Ruby at DARPA, the research arm of the USA's military, plus how he has leveraged a variety of cutting-edge software and techniques such as Flash, DSLs, OWL and semantic web technologies in conjunction with Ruby.
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Google Scalability Session Report
Dare Obasanjo shared his notes on a session given by Jeff Dean at the Google Conference on Scalability, "MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets".
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RedHat Releases Exadel Studio Plugins as Open Source
Today JBoss introduced the Exadel Eclipse plug-ins to its JBoss Tools project. The introduction of the Exadel plug-ins is the first step toward delivering Red Hat Developer Studio, an open source integrated development environment (IDE), later this summer.
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Writing Maintainable Code
Sam Gentile, Oren Eini (aka Ayende), and Frans Bouma have an ongoing debate in the .NET community about how to write maintainable code, which several others have joined. The debate mainly focuses on the question, if Test-Driven-Development (TDD), O/R-Mappers (ORM), Model-View-Presenter/Controller (MVP/MVC), and other best-practices help to improve the maintainability of software.
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Configured Rails software stacks become available
Setting up and configuring servers is tedious work, particularly if a lot of libraries are involved. The Rails community has started looking into solutions for solving this, and the first are now available.
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Aaron Erickson on LINQ and i4o
In an interview with InfoQ, Aaron Erickson introduces his new LINQ extension Indexes for Objects (i4o). Indexes for Objects allows for fast lookup against in-memory collections while retaining the LINQ syntax and semantics. He also discusses how expression trees interact with LINQ and how they can be leveraged in other scenarios.
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Will The iPhone Be The Tipping Point For Mobile Ajax?
Ajax has largely been a desktop browser focused technology during its initial wave of interest. Apple's iPhone however may be the key to Ajax becoming a mobile "standard" as well.
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Sun Submits Servlet 3.0 Specification to JCP
Sun has submitted the Servlet 3.0 specification to the Java Community Process (JCP) as Java Specification Request (JSR) 315. High level goals include web framework pluggability, EoD (ease of development) features, async and Comet support, security, alignment with other specifications, and various other improvements.
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RubyCentral founder Chad Fowler Joins InfoEther
Chad Fowler, Founder of Ruby Central which organizes RailsConf and RubyConf announced that he has joined InfoEther, a six year old startup run by Rich Kilmer, author of FreeRIDE Ruby IDE, RubyGems package manager, as well as maintainer of RubyForge.org.