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Tasktop 1.2: Enhanced Time Tracking/Reporting and a New, Free Version
Tasktop Technologies, the company which created Eclipse Mylyn and leads its development, released Tasktop version 1.2 today, which is based upon the new Mylyn 3.0 APIs. InfoQ interviewed Tasktop President & CTO Mik Kersten to learn more about this release and what changes it brings for end users.
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JRuby Roundup: 1.1.3, rcov4jr, Rubinius MVM and FFI
JRuby 1.1.3 was released with Gems 1.2, improved performance, and many other fixes. Meanwhile the library support for JRuby increases, with a JRuby version of rcov in the works, as well as ports of Rubinius' Foreign Function Interface (FFI) and its MVM API.
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Q&A with Dylan Schiemann co-creator of Dojo on AJAX, Comet, Bayeux, RIAs and the Dojo Toolbox
The Dojo Toolkit is a modular open source JavaScript library, designed to ease the rapid development of JavaScript or Ajax-based applications and web sites. InfoQ had a Q&A with Dylan Schiemann, CEO of SitePen and co-creator of the Dojo Toolkit, about AJAX, Comet, Bayeux, RIAs and the newly released Dojo Toolbox.
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Google Introduces Binary Encoding Format: Protocol Buffers
Google caused a stir by releasing Protocol Buffers, a binary serialization format. We take a look at what exactly Protocol Buffers are and what alternatives are available in ASN.1 or Facebook's Thrift.
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Internet Explorer 6 on its way out (or not)?
Since attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 2002 and 2003, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) has been rapidly losing market share. As the end of 2008 approaches, significant online services, vendors and web frameworks are dropping support for IE6. Will this year be the end of IE6 and what does this signify for Web 2.0 developers?
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Terracotta-VisualVM Integration Offers Cluster-wide Visualization and Event Correlation
Terracotta integration with Sun Microsystem's VisualVM tool offers JVM and cluster-wide visualization. Terracotta announced last week its integration with Sun's VisualVM technology which gives Java developers and web administrators visualization and analysis capabilities to assist in tuning and troubleshooting of Java applications using the Terracotta management console.
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Interview: Christophe Coenraets Discusses Flex 3, AIR, and BlazeDS
In this interview from QCon London 2008, Christophe Coenraets discusses Flex 3, Flex Builder, AIR, BlazeDS, the move towards open source at Adobe, how to integrate Flex with existing applications, and the challenges of integrating Rich Internet Applications with search engines and built-in browser functionality.
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Eclipse Riena: Business-Oriented Client/Server Applications
The third milestone of Eclipse Riena 1.0.0 has been released, offering a first draft of new user-interface concepts and a new look-and-feel to make Eclipse-based applications more business-process oriented.
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Spring Dynamic Modules Continuing To Improve
OSGi is all the rage with numerous implementations and usages and the Spring Framework has also been in the mix. Earlier this year they released Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi(tm) Service Platforms version 1.0. Improving the development of Spring applications running an OSGi framework. Recently they release version 1.1.0.
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Progress Software Acquires IONA and Mindreef
Progress software acquires two companies: IONA Technologies and Mindreef, in an effort to augment their SOA Portfolio. The portfolio consists of products in the following categories: enterprise service bus (Sonic ESB), enterprise messaging (Sonic MQ), data interoperability (DataXtend), Mainframe integration (Shadow), Complex Event Processing (Apama) and SOA management (Actional).
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Presentation: Managing Variability in Product-Lines
Managing commonality and variability is the core of product line engineering. In this presentation, Markus Völter illustrates how model-driven and aspect oriented software development help addressing the challenge of managing variability in product line engineering.
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Eclipse Foundation Leverages Universal Data Collector to Learn About Users
Eclipse 3.4 includes a new opt in Universal Data Collector that tracks information about bundle events, workspace events, and commands.
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Article: Exploring LISP on the JVM
This article, written by Per Jacobsson, is aimed at Java developers curious about Lisp. It discusses the different dialects of Lisp that are available on the JVM today, and gives a crash course in how Lisp programming works and what makes it unique. Finally it looks at how Lisp code can be integrated with a Java system.
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Article: Introducing Multithreaded Programming to JavaScript
In this article, which was originally published on InfoQ Japan, Daisuke Maki describes some of the challenges of developing responsive AJAX applications, and presents Concurrent.Thread as a solution to easing the complexity involved in asynchronous communcation in AJAX.
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Security Advisory Issued for Spring MVC
A security advisory was issued today regarding two potential Spring MVC issues which may affect applications that have been implemented using Spring MVC, both of which deal with the server-side processing of client-side parameters. InfoQ analyzed this issue in detail and spoke with Ounce Labs, which identified these issues.