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GWT Designer 7.2 released
Instantiations today announced the release of GWT Designer 7.2, an Eclipse-based GUI creation tool for developing interactive AJAX applications based on GWT 1.7 and Ext GWT 2.0.
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Adobe Max Day One Wrap-Up
On day one of Max, Adobe announced the upcoming availability of the Flash platform on a number of mobile devices. The availability of Flash on a wide range of devices is an important step forward for the Flash / Flex developer community.
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Feedback and Feedfoward: Best of Both Worlds
Feedback is a situation in which an output from an event of the past has a potential relevance in the future. Agile places a lot of importance on soliciting and providing feedback with every step in order to build a quality product. On the other hand Feedforward is, to give someone suggestions for the future and provide help in terms of future direction.
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A Guide to Claim-based Identity
Microsoft patterns&practices has created a new CodePlex project entitled Claims Based Identity & Access Control Guide to introduce users to claims-based identity and to present examples on how to write applications using this new type of authentication and authorization.
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GWT 2.0 Milestone 1 Released
The Google Web Toolkit team has announced the release of milestone 1 of the new version of GWT. This version includes several new features and bug fixes.
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Add a REPL Console to Your .NET Applications
Microsoft is starting to push IronPython and IronRuby as the way for end users to customize their applications. In order to make that easier, Jim Deville is offering a REPL console designed specifically to be used by end users as an advanced mode for their applications.
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Management Strategies For SOA
Mike Kavis, wrote an article for the SOA institute in which he characterizes the success of any SOA implementation into four factors people, process, technology, and business. He believes that a good management strategy is to create and communicate a roadmap that plots out key deliverables in each of these areas.
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Cells: Components for Rails 2.3
Cells are proper components for Rails, comparable to mini controllers or "partials on steroids", just faster and object oriented. We talked to its main developer Nick Sutterer.
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Silverlight 3 is Bringing Multi-Touch to the Web
Using Silverlight 3, web developers can offer multi-touch applications to their Windows 7 users.
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QCon Keynote: Techie VCs Talk About Trends & Opportunities
In the first keynote at QCon San Francisco on Wednesday Nov. 18th, VCs Salil Deshpande of Bay Partners and Kevin Efrusy of Accel Partners will be discussing trends and opportunities that they have seen in the software development space. If you have any questions or comments that you would like to pass along please add them to this article, and Salil and Kevin may address them in the keynote.
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Opensource ActionScript Debugger - De Monster
InfoQ reported a Flash and AIR debugger Arthropod earlier this year. De MonsterDebugger is another debugger launched this year for Flash, Flex and AIR application development.
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Microsoft Enters Cloud Computing with 2 New Data Centers
Microsoft has announced the opening of 2 new data centers, one in Dublin, Ireland, and another in Chicago, US. These data centers are a preparation for the announcement Microsoft is going to make at PDC 2009 regarding the commercial availability of Windows Azure services.
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Forrester Releases Free Research Report on Lean for Business
Forrester Research, in preparation for their Business Technology Forum next week, has released an analyst report for free download, entitled "Lean: The New Business Technology Imperative." Aimed at management, it discusses Lean as a whole-business imperative, and its impact on IT, cautioning: "Don’t get so caught up in eliminating waste that you forget to create value and increase flexibility."
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ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview Updated
Microsoft has released a new preview for ASP.NET MVC 2. Preview 2 builds on the features of Preview 1, adding client-side validation, streamlined support of Areas, and abstractions of Data Annotations validation and metadata providers.
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Javascript as Compiler Target: Clamato, GWT Smalltalk, Python, Scheme
Improved VMs and ubiquity have made Javascript an interesting target for compilers. InfoQ takes a look at a few languages that compile to Javascript: Smalltalks Clamato and GWT Smalltalk, Python with pyjamas and Scheme with Moby-Scheme.