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Terracotta BigMemory 3.7: Multi-Terabyte Support, Improved Search, Enhanced Security
Terracotta Inc has released BigMemory 3.7, an off-heap store snap-in for Enterprise Ehcache. BigMemory speeds up applications by keeping data in memory, without the long garbage collection pauses that is common for large JVM heap sizes. New in this version is support for multi-terabyte servers, lower search indexing overhead, and enhanced security.
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Fast Hashes Kill Cryptographic Security
Troy Hunt demonstrates how the password hashes provided by SqlMembershipProvider are vulnerable to brute force attacks and offers some remedies.
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Reactions to Mark Reinhold's Recent Announcement of Project Jigsaw's Delay
Java developers across the ecosystem have been swift to react to Mark Reinhold's announcement last week that project Jigsaw, Oracle's planned modularity framework for Java, will now be delayed until Java 9.
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Increasing Visual Studio 2012 UI Responsiveness
Microsoft continues to build performance improvements into Visual Studio 2012. We take a look at some improvements to the Toolbox that could help all users, but especially those with large solutions.
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University of Groningen Offers Repertory Grid Tool for Capturing Architecture Decisions
Dan Tofan from the University of Groningen provides the open source software tool RGT (Repertory Grid Tool) to software architects for capturing and evaluating their architecture decisions. Using the tool architects can better document their decisions and reflect about them.
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On Server-Side Performance, .NET 4.5, and Bing
With over 33% of the market share for US web searches, the servers that power Bing and Yahoo represent one of the largest .NET 4.5 RC applications in continuous production use. The close work between Microsoft’s Bing and .NET teams have resulted in a set of enhancements that should prove useful to anyone running large scale .NET servers.
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OmniFaces: A Utility Library for Java Server Faces
OmniFaces is a utility library attempting to ease JSF development for Enterprise applications. It offers several solutions for common issues encountered in JSF, including validation for component groups, a renderkit for HTML5, full Ajax exception handling and more. It complements existing JSF implementations such as ICEFaces, PrimeFaces and RichFaces.
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Community-Driven Research! A new service by InfoQ
With the launch of our first community research question on "What are the most valuable tools for HTML5", InfoQ is now providing a new service that we hope will provide you with up-to-date and bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviours that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Inside A DLR Language – IronJS
IronJS is a ECMAScript 3.0 implementation on the DLR. In a recent interview on i-programmer, IronJS creator Fredrik Holmström goes into the details of implementing a language on top of DLR.
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Wikispeed - Doing Awesome with Agile
Wikispeed founder Joe Justice gave a talk in Wellington, New Zealand, this week in which he spoke about the Wikispeed mission of "Rapidly Solving Problems for Social Good", starting by using agile techniques to build a 100MPG vehicle with the intent of creating a new approach to motor-vehicle manufacturing, using open-source and crowd-source approaches building on agile values and principles.
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Controversial Voke Report Warns Agile Adopters
Voke’s “The Agile Dilemma” report on development methodologies talks about lazy developers avoiding processes, planning and documentation. It calls agile a scam designed to sell services.
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Agile Marketers Create an Agile Marketing Manifesto at SprintZero
A group of self styled "Agile Marketers" discussed several independent Agile marketing manifestos evolved in past couple of years to come up with a version agreed widely by the community at SprintZero, a first ever gathering of Agile Marketers on 11th of June at Mindjet in San Francisco.
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Entity Framework Now Open Source
Microsoft has announced that they are making the Entity Framework open source. The product will continue to be fully supported, with the same development team. They also announced the roadmap for EF6, which includes task-based Async and new features for Code First development.
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Presentation: IASA’s Five Pillars of Architecture
In his online presentation “Five Pillars of IT Architecture” Jim Wilt, architect at Microsoft, introduced IASA's view on the foundation of architecture. The pillars IASA identified include business technology strategy, IT environment, quality attributes, design and human dynamics.
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A Team of Leaders
A “team of leaders” is a team where everyone is encouraged to take ownership of a project, where the leadership potential is developed in every team member. InfoQ has interviewed Bob Vanourek and Gregg Vanourek, authors of the book Triple Crown Leadership: Building Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring Organizations in which they explain this concept in detail.