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QCon London 2 Weeks Away: Day Passes & InfoQ Discount Available
QCon London is just 2 weeks away, and we’d like to present all InfoQ members with an extension of our Feb 22nd discount, as well as announce that day passes are now available. QCon features over 80 sessions, 15 tracks and unprecedented speaker lineup including Sir Tony Hoare, Martin Fowler, Rod Johnson, and many others.
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Screenshots of Visual Studio 2010 with WPF UI
Jason Zander, General Manager of Visual Studio, posted the first images of Visual Studio 2010 where WPF is used to render the Visual Studio UI. Users will be able to try this for themselves in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 coming later this year.
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dynaTrace 3 Features Global Transaction Tracing, Cloud Support, and an Open Source Plug-in Model
dynaTrace software recently announced the release of dynaTrace 3. dynaTrace software is an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) vendor that provides Java and .NET developers insight into performance problems in both application code as well as environmental configurations.
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Virtual Panel: The Current and Future State of RIA
InfoQ recently conducted a virtual panel on the current and future state of RIA and Ajax technologies. The panel features a number of valued contributors to the community including Dion Almaer, Jnan Dash, Didier Girard, Peter Pilgrim, Tim Sneath, and Ryan Stewart.
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Agile Is a Culture Not a Process
Jeff Patton explains why thinking of agile as culture and not just process explains resistance and difficulty in teaching and learning the approach. Furthermore he suggests that culture generates process, and therefore we should focus on culture first before process and techniques
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AsWing, An ActionScript Fiend of Java Developers?
Java Swing has been the major Java graphical user interface (GUI) building block used by developers for many years. Can the Java Swing experience and skill be transferred to build ActionScript 3-based rich Internet application (RIA) systems? The AsWing Framework started with exactly that goal. InfoQ spoke with the AsWing lead developer iiley Chen to find out how AsWing could help RIA development.
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Details on Using Code Contracts
InfoQ has informed on the availability of Code Contracts for .NET. This time we want to offer more details on using Code Contracts, an important addition to .NET.
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Pragmatic SOA Governance
In an article on SOA Governance, Ross Mason, CTO and Co-Founder, MuleSource, says that in today's world, the traditional top-down philosophy for SOA is outmoded and outdated and urges for a more practical real-world approach to governance and SOA in general.
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Playr 2.0: And the Best Goes On
Compared with traditional application development technologies, one important aspect of rich Internet applications (RIAs) is the ease of handling media rich contents. The Playr ActionScript 3 music library is one example that helps Flash, Flex or AIR based applications easily incorporate music contents. InfoQ spoke with the Playr creator Ronny Welter for more insight.
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JRuby 1.2 RC1 Released, Initial support for Android
JRuby 1.2 RC1 is now available, complete with improved 1.9 support, performance improvements and bug fixes. Also: initial support for using JRuby on Android.
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Keep Focus By Tuning Out Your Computer
Agile practitioners have come to understand the negative effect “context-switching” has on productivity when it comes to your projects and teams. To what degree do the same ideas apply at the daily task and personal interaction level, and what can people do to avoid micro-level multi-tasking problems? Phil Gerbyshak offers some advice.
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Presentation: Joshua Kerievsky Presents 10 Important Points for Agile Transitions
Joshua Kerievsky has distilled his company's years of experience helping their clients transition to Agile software development into 10 points. This presentation puts this advice in context with war stories and a Q&A session.
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Article: Staying Safe and Sound Thanks to MDSD
In this article, Andreas Kaltenbach explains how Model-Driven Software Development (MSDS) can help solving backward compatibility problems when creating a newer version of a software which can mean a new API or a new database schema that old clients cannot use. MSDS is used to negotiate the differences between versions to ease the upgrading process.
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Building a Better Thread-safe Collection
Jared Parsons proposes a better thread-safe collection. By using a design pattern that strongly encourages, but not enforces, thread-safety, his API is both easy to use and easy to understand.
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Citrix Changes the Virtualization Market by Giving XenServer for Free
After buying XenSource 18 months ago for half a billion USD, Citrix offers their last version of the XenServer “free of charge to any user for unlimited production deployment”. This move will certainly have a significant impact on the virtualization market in the cloud computing era that has begun.