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Article: 8 Reasons Why Model-Driven Approaches (will) Fail
When you want to build model-driven software you’ll need to devise a methodology based on ideas and experiences from others. Johan den Haan shares 8 gotchas of Model Driven Engineering. One of the key points in the article focuses on the use of graphical tools vs general purpose languages.
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Lambda Expression Improvements for VB
For VB developers it is a toss-up for the most frustrating thing about anonymous functions. Paul Vick is currently discussing two of them, anonymous subroutines and multi-line anonymous functions.
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Interview: Guy Steele on Programming Languages
Floyd Marinescu, co-founder of InfoQ, interviewed Guy Steele, a Sun Fellow working for the Programming Language Research Group at Sun, about programming languages, the lessons to be learned from the past and what to expect from the future.
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Undergraduate Textbook for Agile Development
One unfortunate modern truth about software engineering university graduates is that a frightening number come out of school with little to no applicable knowledge about agile software development. A soon to be published undergraduate textbook by Orit Hazzan and Yael Dubinsky is a step towards turning this around.
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Alternative Flash RIA Development Tool FDT 3.1 Beta Released
FDT is alternative RIA development tool in Flash, ActionScript or Adobe AIR. The latest release improves Flex SDK based application development.
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Article: An Overview of the eXo Platform
This article by Benjamin Mestrallet and Tugdual Grall provides an overview of the eXo platform, the Portlet 1.0 (JSR 168) and Portlet 2.0 (JSR 286) specifications. Topics covered include new features in the eXo Web 2.0 Portal, new capabilities in the Portlet 2.0 API, Inter-portlet communication, the eXo Java Content Repository, eXo Enterprise Content Management and the eXo business model.
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Is Technology Important for SOA Governance?
Michael Stamback, who just started a new blog on SOA Governance, asked this question a couple of weeks ago. Can the introduction technology help your SOA Governance effort? or are the cultural and organizational issues simply too overwhelming?
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Managing Risk with Scrum
Risk management deals with reducing the probability and impact of adverse events on a project. Members of the Agile community discuss whether explicit risk management is required or it is addressed implicitly as a part of Scrum.
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YARD - Code Metadata And Documentation Generation for Ruby
YARD is an extensible tool to provide metadata about Ruby code using Javadoc-style meta tags. The metadata includes optional type annotations using either type names or structural type information. We look at YARD and how Merb and the Ruby In Steel IDE use similar approaches for optional type annotations.
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Presentation: Lessons Learned from Architecture Reviews
In this presentation, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock presents some practical lessons she has learned from doing architectural reviews. Many times projects are not delivered in time, or have quality problems or have an incomplete set of features due to architectural flaws. The reviews are meant to highlight existing risks and strengths of the architecture, and to reveal issues initially neglected.
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Article: Domain-Driven Design at the Center of an Evolving Architecture
Domain driven design can be most readily applied to stable domains but it becomes more challenging when the domain itself is in a state of flux and development. This is common in Agile projects, and happens also when the business itself is trying to evolve. This article examines how we used DDD in the context of a two-year programme of work to rethink and rebuild guardian.co.uk.
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Presentation: The Top 10 Ways to Botch Enterprise Java Application Scalability and Reliability
In this presentation, Cameron Purdy discusses Java scaling. Topics include performance improvement versus scaling improvement, serial bottlenecks, queue theory, rewriting existing frameworks, avoiding the database, single points of failure, avoiding abstractions, disaster recovery, one-size-fits-all architecture, large JVM heaps, network failures, and trusting product claims.
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Presentation: Developing Expertise: Herding Racehorses, Racing Sheep
In this presentation made during QCon London 2007, Dave Thomas talks about expanding people's expertise in their domains of interest by not treating them uniformly as they had the same amount of knowledge and level of experience.
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Using Windows PowerShell from VBScript, JScript
Sapien Technologies has made available ActiveX PowerShell (ActiveXPosh), a free scripting tool which allows calling the Windows PowerShell from any COM compatible scripting language like VBScript or JScript. ActiveXPosh is useful to enhance existing scripts to make use of the PowerShell functionality.
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Windows Home Server Power Pack 1
Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 has been released to manufacturing and is now available on the Microsoft Download Center. This power pack provides new features, better performance, and fixes the acknowledged data corruption bug.