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  • Agile2007 Conference Program Announced

    The Agile2007 conference program was announced today to entice those still on the fence about attending this year's event in Washington, D.C. from August 13-17. Of note: a keynote by Erich Gamma on "Scaling-up Agility The Eclipse Way," the APLN Leadership Symposium, a new Research-in-Progress Workshop on Agile Software Engineering and the new Conference-Within-A-Conference, fondly known as CWAC.

  • Not-Yet-Commons-SSL Provides Powerful (and Free) SSL Capabilities

    Not-Yet-Commons-SSL is an Apache licensed Java library designed to simplify the use of SSL by providing an easy-to-use API along with robust support for a variety of certificate formats and configuration options.

  • JRuby Team members doubtful about IronRuby

    Two members of the JRuby core team, Ola Bini and Charles O. Nutter, wonder whether Microsoft's IronRuby could possibly be a fully compliant Ruby implementation and run Rails, given Microsoft's policies. A viable alternative to IronRuby, the Ruby.NET compiler, is suggested.

  • ReSharper 3.0 with full VB.NET Support

    Full-featured support for Visual Basic .NET, including complete cross-language functionality with C#, will be available in ReSharper 3.0, a powerful add-in to Microsoft Visual Studio from JetBrains.

  • Microsoft Grants Xandros Intellectual Property Assurance

    Today Microsoft and Xandros announced an agreement similar in terms to the one announced last fall with Novell. This brings the number of Linux distributions with IP assurance to two and while JBoss is mentioned in the article, noticeably missing is Red Hat. The last commitment by Microsoft is striking, as it will now endorse Xandros as the preferred Linux distribution.

  • Friend Assemblies and Unit Testing

    A little known C# feature known as friend assemblies will be making its way to VB 9. This feature allows an assembly to grant access to its internals to another assembly.

  • The Story of TestDriven.NET and Visual Studio Express

    When we first reported on Jamie Cansdale's TestDriven.NET, it sounded like the classic big company bullies the little one. But as the full story was been revealed, sentiment has begun to swing from die-hard support for Jamie Cansdale to a call to boycott TestDriven.NET . InfoQ looks back at how this unfortunate incident came to pass.

  • Is Open Source the way ahead for SOA?

    Dana Gardner cites several recent announcements as further proof that there is close synergy between open source and SOA. Will SOA adoption be better driven through the open source path?

  • Presentation: NET Windows Forms Tips and Tricks

    Ken Getz demonstrates several different techniques you can use when building Windows applications (recorded at DevLink), including: Creating owner-drawn controls, binding controls to just about anything, exposing protected information with inheritance, exposing new control behavior using inheritance, handling thread synchronization with Windows forms, and creating your own property grid.

  • VB Breaks Its Runtime Chains

    In order to support more platforms, Visual Basic 9 will have to the option to exclude the VB Runtime.

  • IronRuby Release Planned for OSCON

    According to John Lam, the first public cut of IronRuby is slated to be released at OSCON in July.

  • Google Gears: Industry Reactions The Day After

    As part of their developer days activities this week Google announced a new offline web application API Google Gears.

  • Google Developer Day 2007

    The Google Developer Day 2007 took place in 10 cities spanning the globe beginning in Sydney, Australia and ending in Mountain View, California. This is a report on some of the sessions at the event in Hamburg, Germany, on May 31, 2007.

  • Deploying Rich Client Applications with Firefox

    Firefox now supports ClickOnce deployment for .NET applications via an add-on by James Dobson.

  • Google SoC Series: Rubyland: Extending Desktop Applications with Ruby

    We continue our Ruby Google Summer of Code (SoC) series with Rubyland. This tool associates events from the OS or applications with Ruby scripts, making desktop automation very easy. We caught up with Scott Ostler to chat about the details behind Rubyland.

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