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Article: Column Level Security in SharePoint
In this article, Mathew Dressel and Grzegorz Gogolowicz demonstrate how to implement column level security in Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
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Article: Colors and the UI
In this article, Dr. Tobias Komischke explains how colors used in a GUI can influence our interaction with a computer and offers advice on using the appropriate colors for the interface.
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Interview: Damien Katz Relaxing on CouchDB
In this interview, Damien Katz talks about CouchDB, a distributed, fault tolerant, document oriented database developed by Apache Incubator. CouchDB is written in Erlang, and the database is accessed through an HTTP/JSON API. The database view engine is run on JavaScript, but other languages have been used like Ruby and Python.
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LiveRun – Taking REPL One Step Sideways
Visual Studio doesn't have much support for REPL-style coding, which is unfortunate as the situations where that would be really useful aren't going away. As a work-around Lucian Wischik offers LiveRun, a VS plug-in that constantly runs a program as its being written. This makes for a useful, though not perfect, tool for presentations and just trying things out.
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Martin Fowler Sees a Thaw in Frozen Thinking about Data Storage
In a recent blog post, Martin Fowler, a renowned software thought leader, observed at last week's QCon that the deep freeze in thinking about databases in application architectures is thawing. The world has been stuck using RDBMS databases for every application use case, but the time has come to also consider RISC RDBMS or distributed document-oriented databases.
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Brian Marick: What's Missing From the Agile Manifesto
In his keynote at the Agile Development Practices conference, Brian Marick described values missing from the Agile Manifesto. His view is that the Manifesto was essentially a marketing document, aimed at getting business to give agile a chance. Now that this goal has largely been achieved, an extended set of guiding values are needed to help teams deliver on the promises of the manifesto.
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Article: Harvesting SOA
In a new article, Wil Leeuwis explores lessons that can be learned from a historical perspective when thinking about SOA. He argues there's a lot of old, well understood and practically applied theory that can help us harvesting the profits of the innovation part of the services-world.
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No Change Tracking for ADO.NET Entity Framework 2010
One of the biggest complaints about ADO.NET Entity Framework was that it did not support change tracking. Despite everything from ADO.NET DataSets to every single non-Microsoft ORM having support for this out of the box, Microsoft has no intention of fixing this in the .NET 4.0/VS 2010 timeframe.
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Business Case for SOA
One of the prerequisites for successful SOA implementation is an understanding of the business problem that will be solved and building a business case for the implementation.
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All In One IDE Released
JetBrains has been continuously improving their award winning Java IDE, Intellij IDEA. However, it has gone way beyond just a Java development tool, especially with this latest release.
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Mobile Ruby Roundup: Symbian Ruby 1.9, Android, JME, iPhone and Mono
A port of Ruby 1.9 is now available on Symbian. We take a look at other options for running Ruby on mobile devices, from JRuby on Android or JME to IronRuby on the iPhone with the aid of Mono.
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Apache Ivy 2.0.0-RC2: Closing in on 2.0
Apache Ivy, a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) project dependencies has reached its second release candidate, preparing for the final 2.0 release.
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JCP Panel: The Community Demands More Openness and Easier Participation
QCon San Francisco 2008 panel on Open Standards Development hosted Patrick Curran, JCP Chair and distinguished members of the community that shared experiences both on open standards and open source development. Almost from the beginning it became evident that there were two major issues that would dominate the discussion: Openness and Ease of entry level participation to the JCP.
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Rails 2.2 Released: A Glance at New Features
After two release candidates, Rails 2.2 has been released. We take a look at some of the major new features and improvements.
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Practicing Agility in Application Architecture
Microsoft has published a How-To Design Using Agile Architecture guide under patterns & practices providing detailed guidelines to follow when architecting an application, the Agile way.