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Article: Your First Cup of Web 2.0 - A Quick Look at jQuery, Spring MVC, and XStream/Jettison
In this article, Joel Confino explains how existing web pages can be augmented to make use of AJAX by using jQuery, a JavaScript library. He also shows how to retrieve data as XML instead of HTML by using Spring with XStream/Jettison.
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Remote Linux Debugging in Visual Studio
One of the biggest selling points for Visual Studio is its debugging experience. Even some of the most ardent critics of Microsoft's development tools reluctantly acknowledge its capabilities. Recently Miguel de Icaza's announced that the Mono team intends to leverage this power to improve debugging Mono applications running on Linux.
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New Programming Q&A Web Site Goes Public
Stack Overflow, a web site for programming questions&answers, has been made public while still in beta. The site offers programmers the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers from fellow coders for free, and intends to become the right source of answers for any programming question.
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NewRelic Offers Free Rails Monitoring, Adds New Features
NewRelic now offers their Rails performance monitoring (RPM) Lite product free of charge for all Rails users. A host of new features were added to the various commercial versions of RPM.
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Is There a Symbiosis Between SOA and DDD?
As the complexity of the real-life problems grows, it becomes obvious that in order to solve them, it is often necessary to combine multiple techniques. One example of a good symbiotic relationship is that between Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Domain Driven Design (DDD).
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Inaugural MerbCamp Coming October 11-12, 2008
MerbCamp, the first official gathering of the Merb community, will take place October 11-12 on the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) campus.
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Microsoft's CSS Extensions
Microsoft has outlined the CSS extensions whose support has changed in IE 8.
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Is a "Sprint" Detrimental to an Agile Transition?
Joe Kreb's says that the term "sprint" in Scrum is detrimental to successful Agile transitions. "On the one side, a sprint may convey the wrong message in an organization among executives and the team alike. It requires, however, little explanation because everyone knows a sprint is short. It could simply mean, we are "fast", but it could also mean "over-time" or "aggressive schedules". "
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DataNucleus Access Platform 1.0 (final) released
DataNucleus, the successor to the Java Persistence Platform JPOX, has released DataNucleus Access Platform 1.0.0 which provides access to a range of datastores for Java applications using JDO/JPA API's.
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Architecture Life Span:Implications on Business and how to build more Long-lasting Architecture
Introducing the concept of architectural shelf life, Dan Pritchett defines the average duration of an architectural life span. Stressing that failing to evolve the architecture at the end of its life span may have important business implications, he provides some advices that aim at facilitating architecture update with new technologies and patterns, thus making architectures last longer.
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MacRuby 0.3 Release Brings Interface Builder Support, HotCocoa for GUI Building
MacRuby 0.3 was released with many improvements, among them support for GUIs built with the InterfaceBuilder. Also: HotCocoa, a Builder-style API for Cocoa GUIs is shipped with the new release of MacRuby.
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Enterprise Web Conf: WOI, REST, and Mashups in New York Oct 28 & London Oct 30
InfoQ and ProgrammableWeb.com have teamed up to bring you a one-day conference covering the emerging theory and practices behind RESTful SOA and Enterprise Mashups, called the 'Enterprise Web'. The event covers the emerging trends of web oriented integration/architecture, web as a platform, mashups, REST, and more.
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Lego Is Not Just For Kids Anymore
Lego blocks have been used for playing and building interesting structures. Michael Hunger and Takeshi Kakeda show how Lego blocks can be used as effective information radiators.
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Quest for True SOA
In his new article Alex Maclinovsky describes a concept of Aspect-Based SOA infrastructure. He starts from the rational for such platform and uses several examples to demonstrate the advantages of such architecture. He also explains how this platform can directly support desired SOA governance, through introduction of additional aspects, directly supporting compliance to the enterprise policies.
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Can Authors Use Agile Methods?
Can Agile methods be used to write a book? For a growing number of authors (Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory, Alistair Cockburn, James Shore, Shane Warden and Jurgen Appelo) the answer is resounding yes.