InfoQ Homepage News
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Article: Java FX Technology Preview
InfoQ takes a look at the JavaFX preview release and talks to Sun Staff Engineer Joshua Marinacci about version 1 expected this autumn.
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MSBuild Extension Pack Brings 170 Build Tasks
Like the open source projects that inspired it, Microsoft's MSBuild framework was designed with extensibility in mind. Three years after its release, that decision is really starting to pay off in terms of the number of additional tasks available.
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Interview: Dave Laribee and ALT.NET
Greg Young grabbed some of Dave Laribee's time at the last ALT.NET conference in Seattle. Dave opens up about the intent of ALT.NET and how the community can get involved.
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Cascading - Data Processing API for Hadoop MapReduce
Cascading is a new processing API for data processing on Hadoop clusters, and supports building complex processing workflows using an expressive, declarative API.
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SSIS for Oracle and Teradata
In conjunction with Attunity, Microsoft has released SSIS Connectors for Oracle and Teradata.
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Unit Testing Workflow Foundation
Windows Workflow Foundation offers some powerful capabilities for those working with data flow style architectures. But these capabilities come at a cost. Unlike traditional batch processing applications, Windows Workflow Foundation does not lend itself to automated testing.
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Granite Data Service 1.1.0 Released with new Features and Tools
Granite Data Services (GDS) 1.1.0 GA is released this week with new features and tools to help GDS based application development.
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Is the Cloud Strategic to Virtualization?
Chris Preimesberger and Bob Waldie see 6 red flags to data center virtualization. Patrick Kerpan responded to these concerns by pointing to the Cloud as a possible mitigation factor. Have you experienced some of these red flags in your virtualization projects? Is the cloud on your radar? Will the cloud replace data centers?
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Book Review: C# Network Programming
Normally we review new books, but occasionally an older book is just too good to ignore. Richard Blum's C# Network Programming is one such book. Focusing on low-level network programming, this book is just as applicable today as it was when .NET 1.0 was new. And though titled "C#", this book is applicable to any .NET language.
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.NET 3.5 SP1 Is Breaking Some Applications
.NET 3.5 SP1 was released in August and, theoretically, it should not break applications based on previous versions of the CLR, respectively 2.0, 3.0, 3.5. But there are reports that some applications are broken including the open source project Castle.
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Interview with Clone Detective's Immo Landwerth
We interviewed Immo Landwerth of the open source project Clone Detective for Visual Studio. This project leverages ConQAT to analyze C# code for duplication.
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The Value Of Atom?
In a comment on a recent InfoQ article, Bill Burke asks about the value proposition of Atom and specifically whether or not it's just a "sexier replacement" for SOAP. Bill de hOra tries to help answer the question.
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Federal Funding Backs Agile Training in Oregon
Agile experts James Shore and Diana Larsen will benefit from federal funding to teach two courses in Oregon this month, from Employer Workforce Training Funds and the Oregon Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development.
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Ruby Future Roundup: Ruby 1.9.0-5 Released, JRuby Skips 1.8.7, Procs#=== For Case Testing
Ruby 1.9.0-5, the feature frozen precursor of Ruby 1.9.1 has been released. Procs in 1.9.x now implement Proc#=== which allows to use as executable selectors in case-statements. Also: The JRuby team decides not to work on 1.8.7 support in the near future.
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Netflix Releases REST API
The Netflix team announces the release of the Netflix API. The release includes three components, a JavaScript API, REST Programming API and Atom feeds.