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Advancing the Ruby 1.9 Adoption
Ruby 1.9 adoption hasn't made much progress yet, the biggest problem being Gems that don't work with Ruby 1.9. "Ruby 1.9 Or Bust" is a new project that aims to increase the 1.9 compatibility for popular Gems.
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Jetty at Eclipse
Jetty is in the process of moving to the Eclipse foundation. At EclipseCon 2009, Greg Wilkins gave an update of why it is moving, what impact it will have, and plans for the future.
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JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 released
Earlier this week, RedHat announced the availability of JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 which provides a complete package of Eclipse along with the JBoss Enterprise Application, Portal, SOA and Data Services platforms. The solution provides a robust, integrated development environment for rich web applications and mission critical enterprise applications in a single package.
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Models of Apprenticeship
Uncle Bob Martin recently wrote about his experience with apprentices and what he considers key to progressing from apprentice to journeyman. He describes two hypothetical apprentices: Sam, a developer who has apprenticed with the same master and had the same year fifteen years in a row. Jasmine has changed jobs (and therefore masters) a number of times - growing her skills along the way.
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Presentation: Facebook: Science and the Social Graph
In this presentation filmed during QCon SF 2008, Aditya Agarwal discusses Facebook’s architecture, more exactly the software stack used, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of its major components: LAMP (PHP, MySQL), Memcache, Thrift, Scribe.
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What’s Planned for Visual Studio Team System 2010
Bill Maurer, Developer Technology Specialist at Microsoft, held a conference presenting what new features Visual Studio Team System 2010 (VSTS) will have in the following key domains: Team Foundation Server, Source Control, Project Management, Testing, Development and Architecture.
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Bamboo Continuous Integration Server Adds Amazon EC2 Build Agents
Continuous Integration (CI),test first development and daily builds are fundamental agile practices. Together they support high performance teams, but also generate a significant, often variable demand for resources. Atlassian's Bamboo CI Server 2.2 includes a feature to Run Builds Remotely in Amazon EC2.
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Performance Engineering in an Agile Project
Performance Engineering is an important software development discipline that ensures that applications are architect-ed, designed, built and tested for performance. However, mostly in traditional projects the scope of performance engineering is limited to performance testing. This is a sure cause for concern.
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Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK
AgDLR, the Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK, has a new release available. AgDLR provides a bridge between Silverlight and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). This allows Silverlight applications to be written in IronPython, IronRuby, or any other dynamic language running on the DLR.
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FriendFeed Implements Schema-less Storage Atop MySQL
Brett Taylor, founder of FriendFeed, describes how they overcame some limitations of MySQL to handle problems of scaling and database evolution by implementing a "schema-less" storage system on top of MySQL.
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Inducting Newbies On Large Agile Projects
Anand Vishwanath suggests for large agile projects that using a small scale "simulation project" might be the best approach to getting the newbies into the groove, and provides a recipe for how to go about doing this.
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AWS Toolkit for Eclipse announced
Amazon have announced the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse to allow Eclipse instances to launch and manage EC2 instances from within an Eclipse environment
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JOSH: A Proposed Software Stack for the Enterprise
Grey Lens Man, a blogger who does not decline his identity, posted an interesting piece about legacy problems plaguing the enterprise and proposes a new software stack as viable solution: JOSH, JSON OSGi Scala HTTP.
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Glassfish Tools Bundle for Eclipse released
Sun today released the GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse, which provides an Eclipse environment to create and provision GlassFish applications from within Eclipse.
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Sun Cloud API: Is Simplicity Enough?
Sun Cloud API is very simple easing the access to cloud’s resources, but some wonder if it provides enough flexibility for present cloud usage scenarios.