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Presentation: Refactoring Databases
For years the norm for developers was to work in an iterative and incremental manner but for database developers to work in a more serial manner. The predominance of evolutionary development methods make it clear that the two groups need to work in the same manner to be productive as a team. Pramod presents material from "Refactoring Databases " on implementing evolutionary database development.
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Article: Successfully Adopting Pair Programming
Jay Fields presents several concrete strategies to go from "I think pair programming is a good idea" to "our team is successfully practicing pair programming and loving it!" He covers everything from pairing stations (the physical layout of your office space), to coaching tips, to common mistakes that those new to pair programming make.
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Clear Toolkit Bridges Flex and Java Development
On February 24, Farata Systems announced that it has started the process of open sourcing its Clear Toolkit framework for developing enterprise rich Internet applications (RIA) with Adobe Flex and Java. InfoQ spoke with Yakov Fain, one of the three partners of Farata Systems, to learn more.
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Ruby Deployment Roundup: Vlad 1.3, Capistrano Maintenance Handover
The recent announcement Jamis Buck is ending development of Capistrano has left many wondering the future of this deployment tool. The release of Vlad 1.3 gives others hope as an alternative.
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Bi-Directional Routing Support in ASP.NET Web Forms 4.0
The ASP.NET Routing engine was added in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Now Microsoft have added better support for using the engine in ASP.NET WebForms 4.0 by using expression builders enabling bi-directional routing.
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Achieving Agility Needed for Business Survival
An increasing number of organizations are embracing Agile development as a survival tactic in these turbulent economic times. This in turn has lead to a number of pundits examining what attitudes and attributes their teams need to be successful. Business agility is important, but how is this agility achieved?
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A Workflow-as-a-Service Platform using SilverLight
SnapFlow is the latest Workflow-as-a-Service platform to launch. Gopinath Dhanakodi, VP of Engineering, explains his technical choices while Samad Wahedi comments on why they decided not to use BPM standards as they aim at providing workflow for the masses.
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The Problems with WCF and the Using Block
The WCF Client code violates two of the core principals of .NET API design; calling Close should actually close the connection and calling Dispose should never throw an exception. We look at how this came to be and at some available workarounds.
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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.