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Healthcare Startup Takes Rails Mainstream
Guest-writer Brian Ketelsen speaks to Aaron Batalion of RevolutionHealth.com, a Ruby on Rails-powered startup that is making waves in the healthcare industry and it turns out they are also making waves in the Rails world. Find out why in this InfoQ exclusive interview.
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Review of Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns
As a follow-up to our interview with Jimmy Nillson, we bring you a review of his book Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns and a sample chapter from courtesy of Addison Wesley Professional.
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MountainWest RubyConf Registration Ending Soon
If you can't make it to QCon in London, consider attending MountainWest RubyConf, the first regional Ruby conference of 2007, to be held March 16th and 17th in Salt Lake City, Utah. Keynote address by Chad Fowler, talks by Gregory Brown, Kirk Haines, John Lam, Charles Nutter, and several others.
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Rails for Java Developers Review and Excerpt
Rails for Java Programmers, by Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland, teaches the Rails framework to Java developers. InfoQ is hosting an exclusive excerpt including sections on controllers, core classes, and unit testing. We are also pleased to provide a review of the title by Java Editor Rob Thornton.
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.NET Compact 3.5 to Support LINQ
A new demo of the next .NET Compact Framework is included the January Orcas CTP. The .NET Compact Framework team has listed several of the new features including a subset of Linq's Standard Query Operators.
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Offline Storage Mechanisms Compared
Niall Kennedy has written an article on boosting Ajax performance using local storage. He discusses four different local storage mechanisms (cookies, Flash local shared object, userData in IE, and DOM storage in Firefox), mentions Dojo Storage as a way to abstract them and concludes that local storage is the next logical step for Ajax applications.
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MyEclipse Brings Tools to Visual Studio and Netbeans
Last week MyEclipse released version 5.5 which includes Simple Non-integrated APplications (SNAPs). This week they are announcing integration of SNAP's for Netbeans and Visual Studio.
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Article: Introduction to OpenTerracotta
OpenTerracotta is an open source enterprise-class JVM clustering solution that can take multi-threaded single-JVM apps and have them run across multiple JVMs with no code changes. Orion Letizi goes super-indepth on Terracotta and how it works, explaining how to do session replication, distributed caching, master/worker, and more.
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Return to the Days Of 640K With The .NET Micro Framework
The .NET Micro Framework is being positioned by Microsoft for very small devices such as sensors, actuators, and wearable electronics. And unlike the .NET Framework, the Micro Framework doesn't even require an operating system.
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User-Centric Development Approaches: What's Next?
On her Creating Passionate Users blog, Kathy Sierra recently envisioned software that's not just usable, but transparent, helping users achieve "flow" in their work without intrusive distractions, delays or constraints. Perhaps end-user "flow" is the next big differentiator - and if so, what will the development processes look like that support the creation of such software?
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Railsconf 2007 Registrations Selling Quickly
Don't miss the premier event of the Ruby on Rails world coming up in late May. A majority of the registrations are already sold as the level of Ruby and Rails community excitment rides high.
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Configuring Hibernate with Annotations
A new article on OnJava.com takes a look at configuring Hibernate via annotations. Traditionally developers have either configured Hibernate with XML files separate from Java classes or with XDoclet comments in the Java code with in turn generate XML.
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Interview: Jimmy Nilsson on Domain-Driven Design
In this latest video interview, Jimmy Nilsson of 'Applying Domain-Driven Design' talks about the value proposition of Domain Driven Design and how DDD integrates with Agile. Jimmy also answers questions on OOD vs. DDD and the symbiotic relationship of domain specific relationships with DDD.
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WebLogic Server 10 Update: Java EE 5, Spring Pitchfork, WS-*
BEA has released a new tech preview of WebLogic Server 10 that passes the Java EE 5 CTS. WebLogic Server 10 uses the Kodo JPA (based on Apache OpenJPA)and also Spring's Pitchfork project to provide EJB and Java EE 5. WebLogic Server 10 adds side-by-side deployment of multi-version apps, JMS automatic failover, support for document-centric ws-standards, filtering class loaders, and more.
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Visual Studio 2007 Preview
Do you wonder what will be in the next edition of Visual Studio? MSDN's Showtime has a copy of the TechEd presentation on the upcoming "Orcas" release. Highlights include framework multi-targeting, rich CSS support, enhanced JavaScript Intellisense and debugging.