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New Windows Essential Business Server Targeted to Midsize Businesses
Microsoft has created a new server, called Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS), which combines management, messaging and security features into one integrated multi-server solution. The new server is targeted to midsize businesses with reduced IT staff personnel of 1 to 3 persons.
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Presentation: Extremely Short Iterations as a Catalyst for Effective Prioritization of Work
Mishkin Berteig presents a situation where he proposed to a software development team, which just started to experiment with Scrum, to accept 2-days iterations. The approach was trying to tackle their organizational lack of prioritization resulting in constant crisis. Their decision led to a bigger crisis which exposed the need for task prioritization.
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Making Retrospective Changes Stick
Agile teams may find it easy to talk about change during their retrospectives, but not so easy to make that change actually happen. Esther Derby, well-known thought-leader on the human aspects of software development, recounts an experience from her personal improvement efforts to illustrate this and offer a few suggestions on how to succeed with making change actually happen.
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JSR 311 Final: Java API for RESTful Web Services
After a little more than one and a half years, the Java platform gets its own API for building RESTful web services: JAX-RS, JSR 311. InfoQ had a chance to talk to spec leads Marc Hadley and Paul Sandoz.
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Adobe contributes AMF support to Zend Framework
As RIA technologies and tools have been well recognized and maturing, robust server side integration is expected to become an important RIA technology improvement area. Last week Adobe and Zend announced the collaboration efforts to allow the Zend Framework support AMF.
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Article: Developing Portlets using JSF, Ajax, and Seam (Part 3 of 3)
This article, the last in a three-part series by Wesley Hales, expands upon the previous articles by introducing Seam. It covers integrating Seam into the previous sample application, deploying a Seam portlet, Bridgelets, Single-sign on between Seam and JBoss Portal, and several new features and capabilities of JBoss Portlet Bridge.
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ASP.NET MVC and Codebehind Files
The ASP.NET MVC community discusses, if codebehind files are still needed when using the WebFormsViewEngine and whether they are a benefit or a disadvantage or even a problem.
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WidgetFX: A Desktop Widget Platform Written in JavaFX
WidgetFX is an open-source desktop widget platform written in the JavaFX Script language. It takes advantage of the latest features in the Java Consumer JRE and runs on all major platforms including Windows XP/Vista, Linux, and Mac OS X.
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Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Supports SOA Component Development and FastSwap Feature
Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse supports FastSwap and SOA component development to help in development, testing and deployment of Java applications on Oracle WebLogic 10g R3 Server. Oracle recently announced the availability of Oracle Enterprise Pack Version 1.0 as a new component of its Fusion Middleware product.
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Article: "Who Do You Trust?" by Linda Rising
During Agile 2008, Dr. Linda Rising held a presentation centered on experiments conducted many years ago, presenting how deep, powerfully affecting, and difficult to avoid are human “prejudices” and “stereotypes” as seen from the perspective of psychology and cognitive science. The article, written by Tsutomu Yasui, is a summary of that presentation.
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Interview: Jeff Barr Discusses Amazon Web Services
In this interview from QCon London 2008, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Evangelist Jeff Barr discusses SimpleDB, S3, EC2, SQS, cloud computing, how the different Amazon services interact within an application, the origins of AWS, SimpleDB and Microsoft SQL Server Data Services, globalization of the AWS cloud, the March AWS outage, SimpleDB Stored Procedures and converting between AMIs and VMWare.
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Windows HPC Server 2008 Has Been Launched
Microsoft has just sent the Windows High-Performance Computing (HPC) Server 2008 to manufacturing. The server is the successor of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 and represents Microsoft's current solution for high-performance computing.
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WOA vs SOA Debate
In an interview, Loraine Lawson asked Gartner Vice President Nick Gall, who is credited with first describing Web-oriented architecture (WOA), to give business and IT leaders the bottom line about the WOA versus SOA debate
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Interview: Erich Gamma Discusses Jazz, Eclipse, JUnit and Design Patterns
In this interview from QCon London 2008, Erich Gamma discusses the Jazz project, why Eclipse has been successful, the strict Eclipse release schedule, JUnit, Design Patterns, how to identify a design pattern, design patterns and the 'Don't Repeat Yourself' principle, the design pattern community, and whether dependency injection is a design pattern.
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Article: Joshua Bloch: Bumper-Sticker API Design
In this article, Joshua Bloch, Chief Java Architect at Google and former Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, presents a list of maxims intended to be a concise summary of good API design guidelines. The maxims represent the abstract written by Joshua for his session "How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters" held during JavaPolis 2006.