InfoQ Homepage News
-
NetBeans 7.1 Shipped with JavaFX 2.0 and CSS3 Support
Oracle have today released NetBeans 7.1, with a strong emphasis on GUI enhancements. The product includes developer support for JavaFX 2.0, significant updates to the Swing Builder (Matisse), and tools for visual debugging of both JavaFX and Swing user interfaces. For web GUI, NetBeans continues to flesh out its already strong HTML 5 coverage, adding support for CSS3.
-
ESE Tookit: Use Windows' Internal High-Performance Data Store To Build Applications
The ESE Toolkit provides C++ and C# class libraries that allow easier application development using the Windows Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), a high-performance data store built into Windows.
-
Silverlight 5 Security: Designed for the Intranet
Silverlight was originally seen as a Flash killer, but Flash itself is being replaced by HTML5. It was also seen as a way of delivering cross-platform applications, but iOS made that a non-starter as well. Surprisingly it is thriving in areas that were supposed to be the domain of WPF such as internal business applications and Silverlight 5’s updated security model reflects this.
-
Major Denial of Service Vulnerability Affects Most Web Servers
Security researcher Alexander Klink and Julian Wälde revealed a serious vulnerability that until recently affected the vast majority of web server. The attack only requires a single HTTP request that is specially designed to create hash code collisions in POST form data. When first discovered this attack affected Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, and ASP.NET, but vendors have been working on patches.
-
Oracle Provider Gets EF Support
Oracle has recently released Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) 11.2 Rel 4 with support for Entity Framework 4.1 and 4.2. This will allow .NET developers working with Oracle database to work with a popular ORM and use LINQ to Entities for data access operations instead of hand-coding the SQL statements. However Code First and DBContext API are not supported in this release.
-
Implementing Custom TPL Dataflow Blocks
Dataflow Blocks are the backbone of the .NET 4.5’s new high performance parallel processing library. And while they offer a lot of functionality out of the box, there will be times when a custom block is necessary. Zlatko Michailov has put together a document outlining the process and many of the traps you may encounter.
-
Real IT Project Success in 2011
Scott Ambler published the results of his annual IT project success survey, in which he examined the impact of methodology on project outcome. He looked at five different "development paradigms" and how they influence project outcome: ad-hoc, iterative, traditional/waterfall, agile and lean. Ambler's definition of success is deliberately subjective - how did the customer feel about the outcome?
-
Bloggers Attack Dr. Jeff Sutherland's Interest & Support of Frequency Foundation
In the last day several blogs have mentioned the interests of Dr. Jeff Sutherland, co-inventor of scrum, in an obscure and somewhat derided area of medical science: electronic medicine. This article covers the controversy.
-
Java 7 Now Includes JavaFX
Just before Christmas, Oracle released a second update to Java SE 7, and a 30th for Java SE 6. As part of the Java 7 release, the Java Development Kit (JDK) now includes the SDK for developing JavaFX applications and, the JavaFX Runtime is now installed with the JRE.
-
2011 in Review: Highlights of .NET OSS Projects
2011 was a busy year for OSS projects using .NET. Phil Haack has released some highlights.
-
The Lean Startup Frenzy
Is the Lean Startup movement another fad or a real source of value creation? The implications of the latter are extreme. If Lean Startup is a real way to achieve consistent success in new ventures then Eric Ries may have cracked the code toward persistent venture success and ultimately: wealth creation.
-
Product Backlog Ordering, Sequence for Success
Historically, some product owners have prioritized backlogs by making pairwise comparison of projected economic return between two items in isolation. Successful Agile teams often take a holistic approach, accounting for risk, dependencies, and the complex interplay among and across backlog items.
-
Spring Security 3.1: Multiple http, Stateless, Debug, Crypto, HttpOnly, Custom form-login Params
SpringSource has released Spring Security 3.1.0. New features include multiple http elements, stateless option, debug element, Crypto module, HttpOnly, secure cookies, delete cookies on logout, CAS tickets, JAAS configuration, authentication-manager-ref, request-matcher-ref, authentication-details-source-ref, form-login username-parameter and password-parameter, and more.
-
LinkedIn Open Sources IndexTank, a Customizable Indexing Engine
LinkedIn has open sourced IndexTank, a document indexing engine that runs on the cloud and lets users customize the indexing process and tweak the results.
-
Blog Sentiment Analysis Using NoSQL Techniques
Corporations are increasingly using social media to learn more about what their customers are saying about their products. This presents unique challenges as unstructured content needs analytic techniques to interpret the sentiment embodied in the blog posts. InfoQ caught up with Subramanian Kartik to learn more about the blog sentiment analysis project his team worked on.