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Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Released
Microsoft recently announced the final release of Robotics Developer Studio 2008. RDS 2008 offers a Windows-based environment for development of robotics applications targeted to various hardware platforms. Most notably, RDS 2008 includes enhancements to help hobbyists and begginers get started with visual authoring and simulation tools.
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Ruby Performance: Great Shootout Results And A Discovery About Binary MRI vs Source Compiled MRI
Antonio Cangiano has again benchmarked all Ruby VMs, MRI 1.8 and 1.9.1, REE, JRuby, Rubinius, IronRuby and MagLev. The results show the steady improvement of the performance of all VMs - and a few surprising lessons of how the performance of MRI can vary.
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Presentation: Ian Flint Explains Yahoo! Communities Architectures
In this presentation, Ian Flint, Director of Operations for Bix, Yahoo!’s online contest service, tries to explain the infrastructure and architecture employed by Yahoo! to keep going a multitude of servers running of different platforms and offering different services.
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HTML 5 Web Sockets vs. Comet and Ajax
InfoQ discusses with Richard Smith from Kaazing, about the evolution of technologies like AJAX, Comet and how they match against the promising HTML 5 Web Sockets standard.
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Can Product Owner and Scrum Master be Combined?
Many short staffed teams or small organizations consider combining the role of Scrum Master (SM) and Product Owner (PO) into one person. Is it advisable? Have other people done it? What are the options? Matt Gelbwaks, Dan Rawsthorne and Tom Mellor, among others, share their experiences.
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Article: Beyond Consolidation: Building a Better Development Environment with VMware
In his article, Mak King presents the benefits of using VMware as a virtualization solution in order to create a better development environment that proves to be ecologically greener if the process is taken beyond server consolidation.
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IronPython 2.0 Has Been Released
Microsoft has released IronPython 2.0 on CodePlex, the .NET implementation of the Python language. The most important improvement is running on top of the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR).
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It's Official: Visual Studio 2010 Will Ship with F#
Back in 2007 it was revealed that F# would become a first class language on the .NET platform at some point in the future. Last night it was announced that F# will be included in the Visual Studio 2010 release.
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Presentation: Ruby.rewrite(Ruby)
In this RubyFringe talk, Reginald Braithwaite shows how to write Ruby that reads, writes, and rewrites Ruby. The demos include extending the Ruby language with conditional expressions, new forms of evaluation such as call-by-name and call-by-need, and more.
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Interview: Yehuda Katz Explains Merb
In this interview from RubyFringe, Yehuda Katz talks about the design principles behind Merb and its focus on a stable API. Yehuda also mentions Yard, an RDoc replacement, which provides a simple way to define contracts for Ruby methods.
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Ruby FFI Brings Native Library Access to JRuby, MRI
The Ruby FFI library allows to access native code loaded from shared libraries. Created for Rubinius, it was recently ported to JRuby, MRI (1.8 and 1.9). Ruby FFI 0.2.0 has now been released.
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JXInsight 5.7 Supports Activity Based Metering Solution and JMX Integration for Java Applications
The latest version of JXInsight, an application performance monitoring software, supports activity based metering solution and JMX integration for Java applications. JInspired development team has recently announced the availability of JXInsight 5.7 version.
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Using a "Snake On The Wall" To Quantify Impediments
Kevin Schlabach discusses using a "Snake On The Wall", a lightweight approach targeted at helping your team get a better handle on the things that are slowing the development process.
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Weather Update: Amazon’s Cloud Has Covered Europe
Amazon has upgraded the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) with the option to create EC2 instances in different regions. The first to benefit from this is Europe which has requested the change due to latency and regulations issues.
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SpringOne Brings a New Tomcat Server, VMware Partnership, and ActionScript Offerings
The announce SpringOne conference included the announcement of tcServer, partnerships with VMware and Adobe, and the new Spring ActionScript project.