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Iron Speed Designer 6.0 Has Been Improved
Iron Speed Designer is a Web 2.0 application generator enabling developers to visually create web pages for .NET/IIS without needing to know HTML or ASPX. The latest version, 6.0, has an improved layout editor, new page types, new workflow page types and live page preview.
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Apache Tuscany Java SCA 2.0 M1 Released
The Apache Tuscany team announced the release of 2.0 M1 of the Java Service Component Architecture (SCA) project. SCA defines a technology neutral component and assembly model for business application developers to focus on implementing the business logic and composing them into business solutions without worrying about the technology concerns.
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Looking inside Silverlight XAP Files, and Making Them Smaller
Silverlight makes it easy to accidentally deploy far more code than what’s needed for an application. ComponentOne’s XapOptimizer makes it easy to fix that.
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RFactor: Ruby Refactoring Support for Text Editors
RFactor is a Ruby refactoring tool that aims to bring automated refactoring support to text editors. We talked to its developer Fabio Kung to learn how it works and what's planned for the future.
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Being A Better Product Owner
Anyone who has spent any time on an effectively executed agile project can attest to the fact that the Product Owner's (or, in XP, the "Customer's") collaboration with the development team plays a key role in the success of a team. Peter Stevens offers a bit of advice to help people in these roles do this well.
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Managing Amazon Services on the iPhone
A number of companies have started to develop mobile applications for managing Amazon Web Services. The most popular device is iPhone and the main service considered is EC2.
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Interview and Book Excerpt: Thomas Erl's SOA Design Patterns
InfoQ has published an excerpt from Thomas Erl’s newest book, SOA Design Patterns, and used the opportunity to interview the author. Topics covered include the role of a patterns catalog, differences between service-orientation, SOA, and Web services, and the current state of the SOA world.
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Interview: Erik Meijer on LINQ
In this interview made during QCon SF 2008, Erik Meijer talks about less known LINQ features, like the ability to do meta programming or the fact that LINQ works against any data collection that implements the sequence operators. Meijer also talks about the differences between functional languages and objectual ones, asynchronous computation, and the evolution of languages.
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Article: SharePoint Object Model Performance Considerations
In this article, Andreas Grabner analyzes the performance implication of using the SharePoint Object Model, specifically displaying and editing lists, one of the most used SharePoint objects.
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Visual Basic 6.0 to be Supported on Windows 7
Contrary to widely circulated rumors, Visual Basic 6.0 will ship and will be supported on Windows 7 for the lifetime of the OS. However there are no plans to extend VB6 runtime support beyond Windows 7.
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Article: RGen: Ruby Modeling and Code Generation Framework
This article introduces RGen, a modeling framework inspired by openArchitectureWare and technologies like the Eclipse's EMF. RGen uses internal DSLs for defining metamodels and offers a full modeling stack for Ruby.
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Story Driven Development Recipes with Cucumber
Behavior Driven Development's (BDD) popularity cannot be denied. By simplifying DSL writing, Ruby allowed the birth of many BDD frameworks. Cucumber is one of them and can also be used to test Java, .NET and Flex and more.
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SharpDevelop Hit the 3.0 Milestone
The SharpDevelop community has released version 3.0 of the free open source .NET IDE. SharpDevelop (#Develop) features support for .NET 3.5, C#, VB.NET, F#, Code Completion, Auto Code Insert, Refactoring and others.
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Fiddler Web Debugging Proxy
Fiddler is a free proxy that logs HTTP(S) traffic, allowing developers to inspect requests and responses, set breakpoints, and tamper with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler also includes an event-based scripting subsystem and can be extended using any .NET language. A simple but powerful example of Fiddler's utility can be seen when trying to get a complete view of a site's AJAX traffic.
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Empirical Studies Show Test Driven Development Improves Quality
A paper first published in the Empirical Software Engineering journal reports: "TDD seems to be applicable in various domains and can significantly reduce the defect density of developed software without significant productivity reduction of the development team." The study compared 4 projects, at Microsoft and IBM that used TDD with similar projects that did not use TDD.