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  • PDC 2008 Keynotes Can Be Watched Live

    Monday and Tuesday's PDC 2008 keynotes can be watched online.

  • Implementing SOA Governance

    In this article, Todd Biske, an Enterprise Architect working for a F500 company, provides his guidance to implement a successful SOA Governance organization. He recommends a 3 step process focused on policy definition and enforcement. He also provides his perspective on the role of a SOA Center of Excellence with respect to Governance.

  • IIS URL Rewriting vs ASP.NET Routing

    With the release and press around IIS7 URL Rewriting, many questions have been raised about the interplay between IIS Rewriting and ASP.NET Routing. How do the two features relate to each other and when should each be used?

  • Microsoft’s Modeling Strategy

    Based on their vision to deliver on the promise of model-driven development in SOA where business users, SOA architects and developers will be able to use the modeling tools to collaborate on composite applications, Microsoft has recently made several announcements about its modeling strategy.

  • Microsoft Bringing Multitouch to Windows

    Microsoft is planning on publicly releasing the Surface SDK at this year's PDC. This is seen by some as the next step towards bringing their multitouch technology to the Windows operating system.

  • Review: C# Annotated Standard

    When you need to know how the C# compiler really works, there is no better place than the C# Standard. But sometimes even that is not enough, especially when you need to know how the Microsoft and Mono compilers differ. This is where Jon Jagger, Perry, Sestoft's Annotated C# Standard comes into play.

  • Polyforms - Reduce DAO Code Duplication

    The goal of the Polyforms project is to remove the heavily duplicated glue code to tie data access objects to the underlying persistence API.

  • Java SE 6 Update 10 is out but what does it deliver?

    After being in beta for about a year and having more than 1 million downloads, the Java SE 6 Update 10 (6u10) , dubbed the “Consumer JRE” has been released. With this release which is primarily focused on the Java Plug-In, Sun is trying to deliver on its promise for an enhanced rich client user experience and paves the way for the upcoming JavaFX Desktop 1.0.

  • Host IronScheme in Your .NET Applications

    IronScheme, an implementation of Scheme for the .NET runtime, is ready for developers to try out. IronScheme adheres closely to the R6RS Scheme standard and currently passes 8,881 of the 8,897 tests in the PLT R6RS test suite.

  • Presentation: Jim McCarthy and 11 Commitments For a Shared Vision

    In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Jim McCarthy talks about 11 commitments team members should adhere to if they want to achieve a state of shared vision. Such a state empowers a team to reach their full potential and ultimately attain greatness.

  • What Makes Good REST?

    Roy Fielding casts an eye at the SocialSite REST API and finds it is less than a perfect REST citizen.

  • Amazon's EC2 Switches from Beta to Production

    Amazon's EC2 services are no longer offered as beta, but they have been switched into production, Amazon offering a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Windows on EC2 is still available as beta.

  • ParseTree 3.0 Released, Many Related Libraries Updated

    Ryan Davis announced the release of ParseTree 3.0, as well as an update to related libraries: Ruby2Ruby and Flog. Sexp_processor, the library to write visitors for analyzing parse tree s-exprs was split out as a gem. Also: ruby_parser 2.0, a Ruby parser written in Ruby, was released with many improvements.

  • Kanban as Alternative Agile Implementation

    Kanban systems for software, derived from the Toyota Production System, are an iterationless approach for scheduling work. Instead of using a time boxed iteration and planning meeting, the pulls stories from the backlog only when it has completed its previous work. Dave Nicolette thinks that its important to expand our repertoire beyond the basics become familiar with other tools like Kanban.

  • RubyEncoder: Obfuscation and Code Protection for Ruby

    RubyEncoder compiles and encrypts your Ruby files to protect them from unwanted eyes. It can also be used to restrict an application to a domain or a certain time period, to create trial versions. InfoQ talked to RubyEncoder's lead developer Alexander Belonosov.

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