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Latest F# Breaks Binary Compatibility
Microsoft has included F# in VS 2010 Beta 1 and has released a corresponding CTP update for VS 2008. The latest binaries, version 1.9.6.16, are not compatible with previous ones, v. 1.9.6.2, meaning all previous code needs to be recompiled.
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Presentation: Testing Your Presentation Layer
Yehuda Katz shows how to test a web app's UI using technologies such as Johnson (Ruby to Javascript bridge), jspec (BDD for Javascript), Webrat and others.
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Dependency Injection for Java
Dependency injection has been around for a while and there are quite a few frameworks which provide such capabilities for Java applications. Recently Google and SpringSource announced a partnership related to providing dependency injection for Java.
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Article: Introduction to Data Services
This short article by Vijay Narayanan begins with a general description of data services and why they are an integral part of any SOA architecture and then explores several aspects of data services including: a definition of need, rationale and benefits, scope, development, and consumption patterns.
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Identity Developer Training Kit Based On Microsoft 'Geneva' Released
Microsoft released an identity developer training kit, following closely on the heels of the release of Geneva Beta 2 at Teched. The training kit is a set of hands-on labs and resources designed to help developers to take advantage of Microsoft’s identity products and services.
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Transcending SOA: OMG Announces Business Ecology Initiative (BEI)
The Object Management Group (OMG) this month announced a "Business Ecology Intitiative" (BEI) withIBM as Founding Sponsor. BEI is focused on erasing the artificial lines between business and Information Technology (IT) so that IT becomes a ubiquitous, integral and vital asset to the company.
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Opinion: Will the Scrum Alliance Change its Stripes?
Recently the Scrum Alliance asked a number of user groups to sign a licensing agreement. This turned out be to a big public relations mistake in the Scrum Community. In cleaning from this mistake the Scrum Alliance issued a new policy, hired Cory Foy as Community Organizer and promised to listen to feedback in the future. Will this be succesful?
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memcpy() Is Going to Be Banned
The memcpy() function has been recommended to be banned and will most likely enter Microsoft’s SDL Banned list later this year. memcpy() joins the ranks of other popular functions like strcpy, strncpy, strcat, strncat which were banned due to their security vulnerability through buffer overruns.
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REST – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
There are endless debates in the industry and among developers on merits and drawbacks of REST. A new post by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz provides some thoughts on both REST’s “goodness” and “badness”.
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Mike Cottmeyer's View Inside The Lean/Kanban Conference
The first organized conference focusing on Lean & Kanban was held in Miami during the first week of May. Mike Cottmeyer was present and used his popular blog 'Leading Agile' to provide a relatively comprehensive play-by-play look into what occurred there.
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Open Database Alliance: New Direction for mySQL
Monty Program Ab, a MySQL database engineering company, and Percona, a MySQL services and support firm, today announced the "The Open Database Alliance." This effort will fork the mySQL code base, using MariaDB as a starting point. MariaDB was created by Monty Widenius, co-founder of mySQL.
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Learning to be Agile - a snapshot of Agile training providers
A list of some of the Agile training providers and consolidators from around the world. This article is not a comprehensive list, but a snaphot and starting point for the reader's further investigation.
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Infinispan Interview
In this virtual interview we talk with Manik Surtani, the project lead for the JBoss Infinispan project, which is the latest offering to enter the open source data grid space. Manik covers Infinispan, how it relates to JBoss Cache and other alternatives, as well as where the project is going.
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Wolfram|Alpha, the Details Behind the Rhombic Hexecontahedron
Wolfram|Alpha uses symbolic computation in an attempt to make the world’s systematic knowledge computable. It does that by accepting a linguistic input not a custom set of formulas. The main components of the system are a data curation pipeline, an algorithmic computation system, a linguistic processing system, and an automated presentation system.
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Interview: Talking RubyMine with JetBrains Developer Dmitry Jemerov
Dmitry Jemerov is the lead developer of the RubyMine IDE project at JetBrains. RubyMine is the new integrated development environment from JetBrains focusing on helping Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers be more productive and efficient programmers.