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Reference Ontology for Semantic Service Oriented Architectures
Last month, OASIS published a committee draft of Reference Ontology for Semantic Service Oriented Architectures - an abstract framework for understanding significant entities and relationships between them within a Semantically-enabled Service-Oriented environment.
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In Other News: Free Windows for CPAN Authors
In an unprecedented move, Microsoft is giving all the CPAN authors access to an array of hosted Windows virtual machines. The machines will be hosted in Australia by a third part with the goal of making it possible for Perl on Windows to achieve parity with Perl on other platforms.
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Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller: Opinions for ASP.NET MVC Developers
ASP.NET MVC is still very much a work in progress and there is still plenty of room for determining the best way to use it or even ways to change it before the final 1.0 release. Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller present some rather stringent guidelines based on their experience with Ruby on Rails.
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Presentation: Building Rich Internet Applications in Silverlight 2
Silverlight 2 is a cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in and runtime for building rich internet applications. Mike Taulty walks through Silverlight basics such as the XAML UI Model and progresses to building applications with both Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Studio.
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RubyConf'08 Videos: Ruby VMs: Internals of YARV, Rubinius, MagLev
The videos from RubyConf '08 are available. We looked at the Ruby VM talks. Sasada Koichi, creator of the Ruby 1.9 VM, talks about the state of the VM, experiments with Ruby to C AOT, Ricsin and more. Evan Phoenix talks about the state of the Rubinius C++ VM. A detailed talk shows how MagLev is implemented. Also: MacRuby, JRuby, IronRuby, VM optimizations, RubySpec.
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Silverlight for Linux: Moonlight 1.0 Beta 1 Is Available for Download
Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight targeted at Linux and Unix/X11 systems. Moonlight has been developed under the Mono project since September 2007 and is sponsored by Novell. Moonlight 1.0 Beta 1 has been released to the general public.
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LINQ to SQL, The Next Step
Despite the numerous problems with Microsoft ORMs and the plethora of alternatives such as LLBLGen, nHibernate, and OpenAccess, many developers are forced to use Microsoft tech because that is why their company or customer wants. And between the two offerings, it seems most developers believe that Entity Framework is not a viable option. So what are they do to?
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Agile 2009 Conference: Call for Proposals
Building on the success of last year’s metaphor of festival with multiple stages, the Agile Alliance has gone with the same approach this year. The idea behind the stages is to make what has become a large conference a smaller place so that sessions with similar themes will end up on the same stage. As a result, attendees who're focused on a few themes will see the same people again and again.
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Managing Change Requests in Scrum
Tracking change requests in Agile is often associated with being at odds with the Agile principle of "Responding to change over following a plan". However, in certain situations it might be necessary to track change requests. An interesting discussion on the Lean Agile Scrum group tries to look deeper into the 'Why' and 'How' of tracking change requests.
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Gartner Releases Note On How To Put The "Web" Back In "Web Services"
Nick Gall shares his insights and comments on the Gartner WOA report which he co-authored.
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Does LINQ-to-Entities really return different results depending on previous queries?
In a recent blog post Stu Smith claimed that “LINQ-to-Entities will return different results depending on what previous queries you’ve executed!”. If true, this would make using Entity Framework much harder than necessary to use. We talked to Elisa Flasko of the ADO.NET Team to find out what’s really going on.
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Article: Book Excerpt and Interview: Aptana RadRails, An IDE for Rails Development
Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development by Javier Ramírez discusses the latest Aptana RadRails IDE, a development environment for creating Ruby on Rails applications.
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GEMVC ActionScript Framework used in Altair Lunar Lander
The GEMVC ActionScript framework is used for developing Flex applications in Johnson Space Center's Altair Lunar Lander project. Christopher Dean, the solution architect who created GEMVC, is also the chief scientist for the extensible information model (XIM) program for the Altair Lunar Lander project. InfoQ spoke with Dean to learn more about GEMVC.
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Jigsaw - the death knell of JSR277?
Following up from an earlier post about modularising the JDK (which InfoQ covered earlier), Mark Reinhold posted the announcement of Project Jigsaw as part of the OpenJDK. Is this the death of JSR277?
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Update on the .NET Reference Source
With the release of the 3.5/SP 1 source code for WPF, we take the opportunity to look at what's been going in the realm of .NET Source.