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Pete Muir Discusses Seam 3, RichFaces 4, and His Move to Infinispan
Red Hat's JBoss division have a number of updates in the pipeline for the next couple of months, including major new releases of their web application framework Seam, and JSF component library RichFaces. InfoQ spoke to Pete Muir, a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, about what is coming, and his own move from the Seam team to the Infinispan data grid team.
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Project Turmeric: eBay Open Source Launches with SOA Platform
eBaypenSurce.org made an appearance on the open source scene with the announcement of Project Turmeric. Turmeric is a comprehensive set of design and runtime tools for a SOA implementation. Does this signal a growing trend of non-ISVs in democratizing tooling?
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Taking a Break From Sprinting
Over the long term, can teams sustain constant work on the product backlog? If a break is needed, what's the most effective way of doing it?
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Notes from OOP 2011 Conference in Munich
The OOP conference (Object Oriented Programming) was held in Munich, Germany, from 24th to 28th January 2011 with “Business Impact through Mastering Change” as its general motto. Despite of its name, the OOP represents one of the largest and long-lasting events on the general field of software engineering.
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Craft or not? Dan North rejects the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship
In recent blog posting Dan North, well known expert for software engineering and employee of DRW Trading, explains his rejection to the Manifesto for Software Craftmanship. This posting raised some immediate responses in the community and among the readers of the blog. According to Dan 20000 people visited his blog and 150 people left comments.
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Oracle Issues Draft OpenJDK Bylaws
Oracle has issued a first draft set of the bylaws that it hopes will guide the processes of the OpenJDK. These governance issues were originally supposed to have been solved by the OpenJDK interim governance board, which Sun created in May 2007, but despite an extension the board was unable to complete the work.
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The Latest Technology Trends as Seen by ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks has issued the January 2011 edition (PDF) of their Technology Radar, a document meant to indicate current software technology trends in a concise form.
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RedGate Will No Longer Offer .NET Reflector for Free
RedGate has announced that .NET Reflector is going to become a commercial product starting with version 7 which is to be made available in the first part of March, 2011, having a price tag of $35. Reflector Pro which allows developers to debug through disassembled code is currently offered for $95.
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Jenkins First Release; Hudson Support
The first Jenkins version, 1.396, has been released with upgrade scripts that can help migrate an existing Hudson instance. Meanwhile, Oracle confirms the continuation of commercial Hudson support, and Sonatype puts their weight behind Hudson.
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Will SSL Collapse Under its Own Weight?
Lori MacVittie from F5 Networks provided an analysis of the recent adoption of NIST SSL Deployment Guidelines by the US Government as of January 2011. Since all commercial certificate authorities now issue only 2048-bit keys, the capacity of a server to process SSL is severely impacted and invalidates the general belief that SSL is not computationally expensive.
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Lift-JRuby Integration Bridges the Gap Between Ruby and Scala
The popular Scala web framework Lift is getting a JRuby API. InfoQ talked to Lift creator David Pollak to learn why Rubyists should use Lift and what the challenges in combining Ruby and Scala are.
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Amazon Will Offer Oracle Database 11g on RDS
Amazon will offer Oracle Database 11g on RDS which brings patching, backup, replication, and failover support to Oracle’s database.
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Final IPv4 Blocks Allocated
APNIC have requested two IPv4/8 address blocks, resulting in the final five IPv4/8 address blocks being distributed as per RIPE-436. IANA has no more IPv4 addresses to distribute, and the major RIRs will likely run out of IPv4 addresses before the end of this year. IPv6 is the only way out of this predicament.
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Should the Product Owner Also Be the ScrumMaster?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of having the same person fill both the Product Owner and the ScrumMaster role on the same Scrum project? Is this really a workable option?
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Oracle Nominates SouJava to Replace Apache on the JCP EC
Oracle has announced plans to nominate one of the world's largest Java user groups, SouJava, to the JCP Executive Committee