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Progress Software Acquires IONA and Mindreef
Progress software acquires two companies: IONA Technologies and Mindreef, in an effort to augment their SOA Portfolio. The portfolio consists of products in the following categories: enterprise service bus (Sonic ESB), enterprise messaging (Sonic MQ), data interoperability (DataXtend), Mainframe integration (Shadow), Complex Event Processing (Apama) and SOA management (Actional).
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Presentation: Managing Variability in Product-Lines
Managing commonality and variability is the core of product line engineering. In this presentation, Markus Völter illustrates how model-driven and aspect oriented software development help addressing the challenge of managing variability in product line engineering.
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Eclipse Foundation Leverages Universal Data Collector to Learn About Users
Eclipse 3.4 includes a new opt in Universal Data Collector that tracks information about bundle events, workspace events, and commands.
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VMware Moves into Application Virtualization with ThinApp 4.0
VMware has released ThinApp 4.0 (formerly Application Virtualization Suite). The product provides application virtualization. This is the first release of the product since VMware acquired Thinstall in January.
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Microsoft Releases ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 4
In keeping with its releases of about once a month, Microsoft has released Preview 4 the ASP.NET MVC Framework. This release promises to start giving developers more higher level features aiding in better productivity.
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Article: Exploring LISP on the JVM
This article, written by Per Jacobsson, is aimed at Java developers curious about Lisp. It discusses the different dialects of Lisp that are available on the JVM today, and gives a crash course in how Lisp programming works and what makes it unique. Finally it looks at how Lisp code can be integrated with a Java system.
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Using Mono and Gtk# to Survive the Gtk+ Treadmill
The proposed changes for Gtk+ 3.0 have stirred up quite a bit of controversy. A lot of people are sounding off against the plethora of breaking changes that are being made for "code quality" issues and don't directly lead to new features. Those hit hardest are also Gtk+'s most important audience, the application developers that rely on the framework.
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BizTalk Services Have Been Updated
BizTalk Labs has updated its range of connectivity and business process services through the BizTalk Services SDK which offers access to the following services: Workflow, Identity, Windows Live ID Credentials, Unauthenticated Access, TransportClientCredentials, HTTP Connectivity Mode.
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Death of Hybrid Camry Chief Engineer is Ruled Overwork
Last month the Japanese labor board ruled that the death of the Chief Engineer on the Camry Hybrid project was ‘karoshi’ (death by over work). This story raised a number of interesting issues about what we can learn from Toyota, sustainable effort and why we develop software.
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Debunking Common Refactoring Misconceptions
In comparison to Java, an emphasis on continuous refactoring is still relatively new in .NET. Besides having few ardent proponents, many myths linger around what refactoring really is and how it applies to the development process in general. Danijel Arsenovski, author of Professional Refactoring in Visual Basic, attempts to dispel some of these myths.
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Article: Introducing Multithreaded Programming to JavaScript
In this article, which was originally published on InfoQ Japan, Daisuke Maki describes some of the challenges of developing responsive AJAX applications, and presents Concurrent.Thread as a solution to easing the complexity involved in asynchronous communcation in AJAX.
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KVM Gains Additional Support in Linux 2.6.26 Kernel and Native Network IO Performance
The new 2.6.26 version of the Linux kernel has been released after three months of development with enhanced KVM support. In related news the KVM development team has announced achieving native network IO performance using pci passthrough with VT-d technology.
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Erlang and Ruby Roundup: Vertebra, Scaling with Fuzed, Github
Recently a few popular Ruby projects have started using Erlang. We look at how EngineYard's Vertebra, Powerset's Fuzed and recently Github make use of Erlang.
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Presentation: Steve Vinoski on REST
In a presentation recorded at QCon San Francisco, CORBA guru Steve Vinoski introduces REST from the perspective of a traditional SOA person. He explains the goals of the various constraints REST imposes, and the desirable properties one can gain from adhering to them. In a hypothetical discussion with a "SOA guy", Steve addresses various frequent doubts people express when they first look at REST.
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Agile Coaches Attend First AgileCoachCamp
An Agile Coach is someone who helps a team, or an entire organization, adopt and improve their agile practices. AgileCoachCamp, held this spring in Ann Arbor Michigan, was the first ever conference specifically for agile coaches. The participants, who came from as far away as India, Sweden, and Ukraine, self-organized to put on more than 60 sessions during the open space conference.