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Interview: Joseph Hill About Important Developments in Mono
In this interview made by Greg Young of InfoQ, Joseph Hill talks about the current status of Mono, the release of Mono 2.0, and important developments related to Mono like Cecil, MoMA, and Moonlight.
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AJAX Animator Demonstrates AJAX in RIA World
AJAX Animator is an open-source project uses AJAX technologies to provide a fully standards-based, online, collaborative, Web-based animation suite. The 0.2 release shows good potential for AJAX plays in the RIA world. The creator of AJAX Animator recently shared his insights with InfoQ.
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Interview: Pervasive's Jim Falgout on Multi Core Programming and Data Flow
InfoQ sat down recently with Pervasive architect Jim Falgout to discuss Data Rush and the data flow concept.
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Article: More Than Just Spin (Up) - Virtualization for the Enterprise and SaaS
A new InfoQ case study takes a look at how the benefits of virtualization can be harnessed inside enterprise data centers to increase reliability, ease maintenance, and enable Saas deployments.
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Coverity Readiness Manager Brings Quick Visibility to Code Characteristics
Coverity recently released Readiness Manager for Java providing a dashboard and analysis for code complexity, violation of best practices, architectural integrity, interdependencies, and test coverage.
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Oracle Set To Acquire ClearApp
Oracle enters into an agreement to acquire ClearApp, a provider of application management solutions for SOA-based applications
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Software Manufacturing: Custom Application Stacks for Virtualized Infrastructure and Cloud Computing
CohesiveFT just released a white paper detailing a new trend in the industry, Software Manufacturing, fueled by Open Source Software and Cloud Computing. They explain why they feel this trend will disrupt traditional, single-sourced, middleware stacks. Could Software Manufacturing be the trigger of a second wave of success for Open Source Software?
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Aspects: An Easy Tool for Annotation Handling?
While many think of Aspects for cross-cutting concerns such as transaction management, persistence and role based security, another key value for them has been as an enabler for Annotations for ordinary projects. Using Aspects as a way to implement annotation handlers is a different way to think of them than as the traditional architect's "cross cutting concerns" view.
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Google Chrome: Perspectives and Analysis
On September 1st, 2008, Google announced its new open source browser, Google Chrome. InfoQ has taken some time to compile some of the perspectives and analysis from the community, news media and blogosphere in order to assemble comprehensive coverage of the Google Chrome launch and its impact.
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Filtrbox: Semantic Web in Flex RIA
Semantic Web technologies and services lie at the heart of the effort to drive the Web to the next generation as a universal medium for data, information and knowledge exchange. Filtrobox is a Semantic Web startup. InfoQ spoke with Filtrbox RIA Flex Developer, Justin Imhoff, to gain insight into the resources and technologies needed for such a startup.
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'State of Agile' Survey Shows Wider Agile Adoption
The results of Version One's 3rd annual 'State of Agile' survey are in. According to the survey, agile practices are being used more widely and with impressive results. More than half of the respondents indicated that 90 - 100% of their organization's agile projects have been successful, and 93% indicated that agile practices had enhanced their ability to respond to changing priorities.
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F# September 2008 CTP Was Updated
Shortly after it was released, the F# September 2008 CTP has been updated. This is a minor update, which is supposed to address some issues left open in the CTP released a week ago. "Support for units of measure on decimal types was limited in the first CTP release, and this has now been addressed", according to Don Syme, a researcher on the F# team.
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Overview of the Appcelerator RIA Platform
In this post, InfoQ discusses the Appcelerator platform with Matt Quinlan, Vice President of Community Development at Appcelerator. Quinlan highlights the strengths of Appcelerator and some of its common uses.
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Web IDL: W3C Language Bindings for DOM Specifications Gets a New Name
The W3C recently published the working draft of Web IDL which was formerly known as the Language Bindings for DOM Specifications. The working draft defines a syntactic subset of OMG IDL version 3.0 for use by specifications that define interfaces. InfoQ spoke to the specification editor to learn more about the specification and its impact on the Web development community.
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5 SOA Best Practices According to IBM
Although many companies today are banking on SOA to help them respond faster to new and changing demands of the economic landscape, they are not always capable of achieving consistent measurable results. A recent white paper from IBM defines five best practices to achieve success with a SOA implementation.