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IE8 Beta 2 Released for the Consumer
Microsoft has just released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. While Beta 1 was aimed to the developers, Beta 2 is for the consumers. Some of the top features of the browser are: Web Slices, Search Suggestions, Accelerators, Compatibility View, SmartScreen Filter.
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Gordon Pask Award 2008 Winners
The Agile Alliance's annual Gordon Pask Award recognizes two persons for their contributions to Agile practice. The award is for potentially new, rather than established, leaders. This year's honorees were Kenji Hiranabe and Arlo Belshee; Bob Payne was also recognized for his philanthropic work. Award program leadership has changed, and community input is solicited to improve the program.
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New Open Source project provides Object Oriented data access
Kasper Sørensen has created a new open source project at eobjects.dk called MetaModel. The project is a common domain model, query engine, and optimizer for different types of datastores, such as relational databases and flat files. MetaModel is a Java library that provides a fluent, object-oriented interface for SQL compliant queries.
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QCon San Francisco Nov 19-21 Full Schedule Posted
The timed schedule for the 3 day QCon San Francisco conference has been posted! QCon is InfoQ's enterprise software development conference featuring over 80 sessions and 70 speakers. QCon is a conference designed for team leads, architects and project management. Last year's QCon SF attracted almost 500 people.
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ThoughtWorks Releases Cruise: Continuous Integration and Release Management System
Continuous integration is an agile practice in which each code change committed is automatically built and tested, reducing the cost of bugs by catching many of them as soon as they are introduced. Today, ThoughtWorks released Cruise, extending continuous integration to application testing and deployment. Cruise runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and includes support for .NET, Java, and Ruby.
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Object Relational Mapping - User Case Studies
Roberto Zicari, from ODBMS.org, collected interviews and stories from several users of Object/Relational mapping technologies. The main point of the cases was around "impedance mismatch" between the object technology in the domain model and the relational technology in the data model.
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Oracle Announces WebLogic Suite
Following their acquisition of BEA Systems, Oracle has announced new company product offerings based on the various technologies carrying the WebLogic brand.
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Railo joins JBoss.org
Swiss software house Railo have announced that they are joining JBoss.org and will be releasing their Java based ColdFusion Markup Language engine for free under the LGPL.
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JetBrains Releases ReSharper 4.0 with Many Improvements, C# 3.0 Support
JetBrains has released the much-anticipated productivity Visual Studio add-in, ReSharper 4.0. Resharper 4.0 includes many improvements and new features.
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QCon San Francisco Nov 19-21 Enterprise Software Development Conference Launched
QCon is coming back to San Francisco this November 19-21st, featuring speakers such as Martin Fowler, Eric Meijer (creator of LINQ), Rod Johnson (Spring), and others. Digg.com, Facebook, Yellowpages.com and MySpace.com architectures will be presented. QCon is the conference for enterprise software development team leads, architects and project management.
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WebKit Team Announces SquirrelFish, a Bytecode Based JavaScript Interpreter
The WebKit development team announced last week the development of a new interpreter for the WebKit JavaScript engine code-named SquirrelFish. According to official WebKit blog: "SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit's previous interpreter."
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First Public Release of Impala Provides Dynamic Modules for Spring
Impala is an open source framework which aims to provide a dynamic module system for Spring-based web applications without requiring OSGi.
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JSR-292 Early Draft Review Announced
The early draft review of JSR-292 has been released. JSR-292 defines the 'invokedynamic' instruction, a bytecode instruction to assist in the implementation of dynamic languages on JVM.
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InfoQ China Colour Scheme Goes Gray in Consideration of Earthquake Victims
As China began a three-day official mourning period from May 19th for victims of the May 12 earthquake that happened in Sichuan Province in southwestern China, InfoQ China joined other tech sites and on Monday and changed the whole site's colour scheme to gray as an act to express its mourning.