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QCon London in One Month: 103 Speakers, 107 Sessions, 500+ Attendees
QCon London is in 1 month! The final schedule is now online and features 103 speakers and 107 sessions on key topics designed for senior developers, team leads, architects in enterprise software development shops. The last chance to save £196 expires in 2 weeks.
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Spring.NET 1.3: VS.NET Solution Templates, MSTest Support and Spring Integration.NET
A new version of the Spring.NET framework, version 1.3, was recently released. InfoQ spoke with Mark Pollack, founder and lead of the Spring.NET project, to learn more about this release and what new capabilities it brings, and also to learn more about the new Spring Integration.NET project.
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Java EE 6 Web Services: JAX-RS 1.1 Provides Annotation Based REST Support
JavaEE 6 release includes Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) support which provides a POJO based framework to build lightweight web services that conform to the Representational State Transfer (REST) style of software architecture. JAX-RS version 1.1, which is part of JSR 311, offers several annotations that can be used to expose Java class methods as web resources.
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Scrum/Agile Failings or the Theses of Uncle Bob Martin
In response to a question about the Inherit Shortcomings of Scrum/Agile - Uncle Bob Martin penned (in the spirit of Martin Luther), 7 theses: No Technical Practices, 30 Day Sprints are too long, Scrum Master sometimes turns into Project Manager, Scrum carries an anti-management undercurrent, and others.
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Is Symbian’s Open Sourcing Too Late?
The Symbian Foundation announced their intention to open source the Symbian platform almost 20 months ago. While some consider this as an important move for the most deployed platform in mobile devices, others think that it is too late.
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SOA Design: Is it about Contracts or Service Implementation?
A new Steve Jones’ post “Why contracts are more important than designs” discusses an important issue, service contracts, explaining why more time should be spent designing the services contracts.
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On The Future of Flash
The recent release of the Apple iPad, which does not support Flash, and Steve Jobs’s comments on Adobe Flash have triggered a new round of discussion on the future of Flash. A few well-known leaders in the field of rich interactive experience have joined the discussion.
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Silverlight 4’s COM+ Automation Raises Security and Portability Concerns
Silverlight 4 supports COM+ Automation when running as an Out-Of-Browser (OOB) application with elevated privileges. Microsoft indicated that this support is a result of enterprise customers requesting such a feature, offering as an example Office automation from Silverlight.
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Is Scrum Certification Having Another Makeover?
Scrum Certification is one debate that refuses to die down. First, it was about the hollow nature of certification for which there was a comment “Pay the tuition, sit through a couple days of class, and you're in”. Subsequently a new format was devised, which too failed to enthuse the Agilists who were against this certification philosophy. Is there another makeover on the anvil?
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Adobe Apologizes for Long Lasting Flash Crash Bug
Emmy Huang Product Manager for Adobe Flash Player has apologized publicly about a Flash bug that resulted in browser crash, that although has been reported 17 months ago, no patch has been released for the production version of Flash player yet.
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Ruby in Steel 1.5 Released, Drops IronRuby Support
SapphireSteel Software, the developers of the Visual Studio based Ruby in Steel IDE have just released version 1.5. Among many improvements, they also dropped support for IronRuby.
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HTML5, H.264 and Flash roundup
Last week, InfoQ published a piece on YouTube offering HTML5 beta for its videos, in H.264 format. Shortly thereafter, Vimeo announced an HTML5 beta as well, also using H.264 as the video codec. However, Mozilla has come out against using H.264, whilst the recent iPad launch has focussed on the H.264 hardware decoding. Has Flash finally met its match?
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What Really Motivates Workers
In a recent Harvard Business Review article Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J Kramer challenged the commonly held mnagement belief that Recognition is the most motivating and positive factor in the workplace. Their multi-year study tracked the motivation and emotions of hundreds of knowledge workers and identified POGRESS as the single most important factor for individual motivation in the workplace
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AutoMapper 1.0 For .NET Released
The open source project AutoMapper written by Jimmy Bogard has been actively developed for about a year and recently got to the 1.0 mark. AutoMapper is a convention based object-to-object mapper often used to (but not restricted to) flatten complex object models to DTOs, commonly used in ViewModels and crossing service boundaries.
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Maven to be Built on Guice
Sonatype, the professional services company that sponsors the development of many key Maven committers, has announced that they will build Maven 3 atop the Guice Dependency Injection (DI) container instead of the Plexus DI container employed for Maven 1 and 2. Backwards compatability will be ensured using a shim to support Plexus.