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JetBrains Meta Programming System Supports Language Oriented Programming and DSLs
Meta Programming System (MPS), a new Language Oriented Programming tool from JetBrains, allows the developers to extend programming languages as well as create Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) for enterprise applications. JetBrains development team recently announced the release of beta version of MPS software.
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Interview: Keith Braithwaite, an Agile Skeptic
In this interview made by InfoQ’s Amr Elssamadisy during Agile 2008, Keith Braithwaite, an Agile developer, consultant and trainer, says that we should show a good deal of skepticism towards today’s Agile practice.
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StickyNotes for Visual Studio 2008
StickyNotes is a Visual Studio plug-in allowing the creation of sticky notes attached to documents of a solution. There is a free community version and also a professional one.
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Article: Workflow Orchestration Using Spring AOP and AspectJ
This article provides a practical example of light-weight workflow orchestration using Spring AOP and AspectJ.
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Azure Storage Viewer
Sergei Meleshchuk is offering a storage viewer for Azure. This tool lets users explore their Azure queues, blobs, and tables.
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Presentation: Embrace Uncertainty by Jeff Patton
In this original presentation from the Communitech Agile Event, Jeff Patton, winner of the Agile Alliance’s 2007 Gordon Pask Award, explains why one needs to embrace uncertainty in order to succeed with his/her Agile project and how to avoid some of the common mistakes leading to project failure.
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IBM's BPM Zero Project: RESTful Worflow Management
Christina Lau introduces IBM’s vision for BPM-as-a-Service: a light-weight BPMN based scripting engine for RESTful services. This vision is well in line with products currently on the market. The product is incubated at Project Zero and will eventually be deployed with WebSphere sMash.
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Cell Supercomputer at Home?
Sony's PS3 may be losing the market share war, but it has other uses. Does somebody want a supercomputer at home? That can be done by clustering PS3s running Linux. And the PS3s can still play Prince of Persia.
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Architecting for Green Computing
Green computing is becoming more and more important every day. System architects need to take into account energy consumption and to find ways to reduce it through: system virtualization, server consolidation, smart unit positioning in data centers, and others.
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Financial Functions for .NET
Luca Bolognese has reimplemented Excel’s collection of financial functions in F#. Released under an open source license, it should prove useful for both learning F# and for porting applications from Excel to .NET.
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DeepEarth, a Mapping Control Using Silverlight
DeepEarth is a mapping control combining Microsoft’s Virtual Earth with Silverlight 2.0. The open source project was released on CodePlex by its creators, a team of .NET enthusiasts.
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BPMN 2.0 Virtual Roundtable Interview
In another one of our online roundtable interviews, we talk with some of the people behind the latest version of the BPMN standard that is progressing through the OMG. We talk with them about BPMN 2.0 as well as XPDL and BPEL4People.
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QCon London Update: 3 Months Away, Tony Hoare, Martin Fowler, Dion Hinchcliffe
InfoQ's third annual QCon London conference is coming back March 11-13, just 3 months away! Last year's QCon London had over 450 registrants & 100 speakers. This year will beat the economic gloom, join us for another awesome networking and educational experience!
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Hibernate Search 3.1 Supports Dynamic Search Analyzer and Query Time Performance Improvements
The latest version of Hibernate Search, an open source domain model search framework from Hibernate group, supports a declarative and dynamic search analyzer model as well as indexing and query time performance improvements. Hibernate Search development team recently announced the release of Version 3.1 of the search framework. The new version also provides new features focused on usability.
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Merb Will Be Merged Into Rails 3.0
Big news for Ruby web frameworks: Merb and Rails will be merged in Rails 3.0. The merge will bring some of Merb's characteristics to Rails: a defined public API, ability to run a barebones version rails-core (like merb-core) with further functionality available in the form of plugins, performance improvements and more.