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Google Has a Problem with Some Android Developers
Google has issued lately a cease and desist order against Steve Kondik, a well known Android developer who has created CyanogenMod, a free custom Android firmware, bundling some non open source applications like Maps, GMail, Talk, YouTube, and Market. Some see this as the first friction between Google and developers.
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Bill Burke Discusses REST-*, SOA/ROA and REST
InfoQ's recent post on REST-*.org, which covered the announcement of REST-* and some of the community response to it, has drawn many responses. Changes have also been made to REST-*.org as a result of some of the feedback. Infoq had a chance to interview Bill Burke, a lead for the REST-* initiative, to learn more.
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REST-*.org
During the recent JBoss World conference a new REST* initiative was announced. The initiative is intending to be an open source community, similar to JBoss and Apache, that will try to come up with clear guidelines so that there's a place for everyone to go when they need answers to REST-related questions.
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EU Probe 'costing Sun $100m a month' according to Ellison
The proposed $7.4bn takeover of Sun by Oracle is facing a full competition investigation by the European Commission costing Sun "$100m a month" Larry Ellison has claimed. The EU has until 19 January 2010 to announce its decision.
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GET Details On Upcoming .Net Access Control Service
The .net services team, released details on future plans for the .net services offering, that is part of the Azure services platform. .NET Services includes access control to help create secure connections between your applications and services, as well as a service bus for communicating across network and organizational boundaries.
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SPEC for SOA
Until recently there was no standardized way in which to measure the performance of SOA infrastructures, such as ESBs. Now the Spec Organization have announced that they are working with vendors to define just such a benchmark.
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MP3 Downloads Now Available, 5 Agile 2009 Presentations Posted
A new and frequently-requested feature has been added to InfoQ - MP3 download of interviews and presentations for registered users! To start with, MP3s will be available for the Agile 2009 presentations, which are also now becoming available on InfoQ.
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Retrospective of Retrospectives
Once all your teams use Agile and are busy implementing local improvements, what happens to the larger organization formerly called "IT" or "Systems Development"? A coach with a large Agile program shared the strategy they designed to let the larger community spot trends and benefit from all this learning. Paulo Caroli calls it "Retrospective of Retrospectives".
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SOA Transactions Using the Reservations Pattern
Despite the extreme importance of transaction processing for ensuring reliability and manageability of distributed computing and several existing WS-* standards, the implementation of the transactional behavior in SOA is still pretty rare. The Reservation pattern, described in a new post by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, provides one of the possible solutions to this problem.
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Is Enterprise Architecture Suitable for Small Businesses?
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is considered a mandatory tool for big companies, those which can afford the required human and financial resources to use it. But some question that assumption affirming that EA is for SMBs too.
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The CodePlex Foundation – Community Reactions and Interviews
After the announcement of the newly created CodePlex Foundation (CPF), many opinions and reactions has been expressed in the community. InfoQ has monitored these to give a summery of the reactions and discussions so far. InfoQ have also interviewed Scott Bellware, Ayende Rahien and Scott Koon on their opinions of the new foundation.
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Enterprise 2.0, a New Buzzword
A new post by Andrew McAfee describes the advantages of Enterprise 2.0 and gives examples of how Enterprise 2.0 approaches can help to solve real life problems.
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Building Scalable Web Services
Tom Killalea, Vice President of technology with responsibility for infrastructure and distributed systems engineering at Amazon.com wrote an article on ACM queue on building scalable web services. He outlines guiding principles to building scalable web services with a lot of real-world examples, the core theme of which is “build only what you need”.
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PMI Launches Agile Community of Practice at Agile2009
The Project Management Institute (PMI) officially launched their Agile Community of Practice at the Agile2009 conference. The group's stated mission is: "To equip PMI Members with Agile skills and knowledge" Mike Griffiths has been credited with getting things moving when he issued a challenge at Agile 2007 that PMI form an Agile Specific Interest Group.
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How Does SOA Relate to Cloud Computing?
A recent session, part of ebizQ's Cloud QCamp, discussed the current state and relationship between cloud computing and SOA. The consensus of the panelists was that the cloud is helping to boost the advantages promised by service orientation to a firmer business footing.