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ThoughtWorks Releases CruiseControl.rb
ThoughtWorks announced release of CruiseControl.rb 1.0, a new open-source continuous integration tool for Ruby / Rails projects.
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Presentation: Dynamically Typed Languages for the JVM
Scripting languages are of growing importance, and they are typically dynamically typed. This session discusses improved support for these languages in the JVM, through the use of the new invokedynamic bytecode and through improved support for hot-swapping--modifying code and classes on the fly while maintaining the JVM software's security and integrity.
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Gemstone, Tangosol Offering Native .NET Clients to Distributed Data Caches
Gemstone last month released its Gemfire distributed data cache offering with native C++ and .NET cache clients. Tangosol last week also released Coherence for .NET which provides a native C# client to access data in Coherences' data grid. Both companies have Java-based distributed cache solutions with .NET support, frequently used by projects with .NET client front-ends with Java backends.
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WCF Messaging Fundamentals
Aaron Skonnard has published an article about WCF Messaging Fundamentals in the current issue of the MSDN Magazine. He provides an overview of WCF's messaging layer, improvements in the System.Xml namespace as well as guidance on working with messages and message representations.
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Presentation: Rob High on The SOA Component Model
In an InfoQ presentation, IBM's SOA Foundation Chief Architect Rob High introduces Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO) as the foundation for a SOA programming model.
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Considering Grails vs Rails Benchmarks
The Grails community recently posted some unscientific benchmark numbers comparing a simple crud app written in Grails and Rails.
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Sun Hires Debian Linux Founder Ian Murdock to Run OS Platform Strategy
Ian Murdock, founder of Debian Linux, has been hired by Sun Microsystems to head up operating system platform strategy.
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SCA/SDO go to OASIS
The proprietary SCA and SDO specifications, often seen as competing with JEE and JBI, are taken to OASIS. With Sun now a member, is this a case of happy families?
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon
In this article we present the main takeway points and further reading as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. It's a long article, but a superb way to learn all the main lessons that bloggers felt worth talking about. QCon London was InfoQ's first conference and has been quite a success.
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Fun: Planning your Life with Index Cards
We've all heard the apocryphal stories: "I planned my reno, move, wedding..." using Scrum. Mike Mason of Thoughtworks admitted on his blog: "this whole Agile thing has messed me right up", and shared a picture of his own personal taskboard.
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QCon: REST for SOA at Yahoo!
In his talk at the QCon conference, Mark Nottingham, a "Principal Technical Yahoo!", provided some insight into how the Yahoo! Media Group uses the Web, and not Web services, to build its SOA variant. According to Mark, the Yahoo! Media Group gains significant advantages by using HTTP RESTfully, especially by exploiting caching opportunities.
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Presentation: Deploying & Maintaining Smart Client Apps using ClickOnce
ClickOnce, part of version .NET 2.0, allows the deployment of Windows-based rich client apps by placing the app files on a Web or file server and providing the user with a link. This session covers VS 2005 deployment capabilities for online and offline support, rolling back to previous versions of an app, listing an app in the Start Menu and control panel, and zone-based debugging.
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Ruby Domain Specific Languages Buzz
Last week the Ruby community received a good amount of material related to domain specific languages
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Choosing an Ajax Framework
Sebastian Just has written about how to select an Ajax framework. He lists a number of questions that architects should answer in helping them narrow down the list of available frameworks, including community and corporate support, learning curve, and whether it fits the type of user the site has.
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OpenLaszlo 4.0 Released with Flash and DHTML/Ajax Support
Laszlo Systems has announced the release of OpenLaslzo 4.0. OpenLaszlo is an open source RIA platform that allows developers to compile and target their applications to either an Ajax or Flash runtime.