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Debate: Public Fields and Naming Conventions
Jeff Atwood's blog post earlier this week has stirred up debate in the .NET community on properties vs. public fields and naming conventions for .NET. After first suggesting to use public variables in place of properties, Jeff retracted this suggestion. Also at issue, using case to distinguish public properties vs. m_ or _style-prefixes, and SCREAMING_CAPS constant declarations.
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Opinion: Flex can transform the user experience on the web
Adobe's Christophe Coenraets, recently blogged on how Flex can transform the user experience on the web. The Flex SDK was recently made free, and combined with the ubiquity of the Flash VM, Flex could have a potential to be the platform of choice for ajax-style rich web development. Christophe stressed a number of features that are not unique by themselves yet valuable when used together.
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Testing and Debugging Ruby on Rails
Well-known Railer Rabble launches a companion blog to his upcoming O'Reilly book covering the important topics of testing and debugging Ruby on Rails.
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Industry Use of OSGi Continues to Increase
OSGi is specification of a Java-based framework targeted for use by systems that require long running times, dynamic updates, and minimal disruptions to the running environment. The Eclipse Equinox provides one of many available implementations. Numerous server and desktop applications are also starting to make use of OSGi.
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InfoQ Article: Simplifying Enterprise Apps with Spring 2 and AspectJ
Adrian Colyer, AspectJ lead and Chief Scientist at Interface21 has contributed an excellent article which shows how to use Spring 2's new AspectJ integration features followed by a roadmap for the adoption of Aspect Oriented Programming on an enterprise project, with lots of specific examples of how and where to apply Aspects.
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Rails 1.1.5 Released With Crucial Security Fixes
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, urges all users to upgrade to 1.1.5 to benefit from a crucial security patch affecting all major prior versions.
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Portlet 2.0 Specification Ready for Public Review
Version 2.0 of the Portlet Specification (JSR 286) has been released for public review. The reference implementation for this JSR will be the Apache Pluto project. The new Portlet Specifications will add functionality that was not addressed in the first version specification.
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Meet 9 Top Rails Gurus At "The Rails Edge"
The Pragmatic Programmers announce a series of 3-day workshops for developers, managers, and enthusiasts to get up to date with the latest Ruby and Rails technologies.
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New Atlas Control Toolkit Released
Microsoft has released a new version of the Atlas Control Toolkit with 5 new controls: DynamicPopulate populates an element with HTML content from the server, FilteredTextBox prevents unwanted characters from being entered, PagingBulletedList adds paging to a bulleted list, PasswordStrength provides feedback about password strength as entered, and Rating displays a "4 out of 5 stars" interface.
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Tackling Misconceptions About Spring
Spring has transitioned from a bleeding edge project to widely used component of enterprise applications written in Java today. As with any popular project misconceptions start to arise. Steve Anglin recently blogged on oreillynet.com about 10 common misconceptions developers have about Spring.
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Apple to Include Ruby on Rails With Next OS X Release
As the Ruby on Rails framework celebrates its second birthday, Apple announces the framework is to come with its next OS X release, Leopard.
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MyEclipse 5.0 Released - InfoQ Interview With Genuitec
Genuitec has released MyEclipse 5.0 Enterprise Workbench. This is the first release version that supports the new Eclipse 3.2 platform. Enhancements include support for Matisse UI development, Hibernate 3.1 and Spring 2.0, and enhanced webservices and JSF features.
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RubyForIIS Makes Ruby Easier on Microsoft's IIS
RubyForIIS is a new, beta package designed to make installing Ruby and Rails for use with IIS easier.
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Easier Database Development with JDBC 4.0
Java 6.0 will include a number of Java Database Connectivity enhancements collectively known as JDBC 4.0. One of the main goals of JDBC 4.0 was to try and reduce the amount of boilerplate JDBC code a developer had to write.
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Ruby Compilation on .Net Maturing
John Gough, a professor at Queensland University of Technology, talked about his team's work with Ruby .Net compilation at the recent Microsoft Lang.NET 2006 Symposium.