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RubyKaigi 2008: Standardization, 1.9 Roadmap
News from RubyKaigi2008—the Japanese Ruby conference held at Tsukuba from June 20 through 22—concerning the planned Ruby standardization, the Ruby 1.9 roadmap and a glimpse at upcoming features in future versions of Ruby.
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RubyKaigi 2008: Interview With Ruby Creator Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto
The annual RubyKaigi conference took place from June 20 through 22 at Tsukuba, Japan. The first day held a discussion between Ruby's father Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto and Eihiro Saishu about the role of Ruby in enterprise systems and the new Ruby Association Certified Ruby Programmer certification program.
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The Personal Retrospective – Improving Your "Wetware"
Andy Hunt's interview last month talks about his progression from pragmatic programmer to Agile development to his latest interest – Pragmatic Wetware. "Wetware is the stuff in your head. That's the thing between your ears that's really where all the action is – that's where all the software development actually takes place."
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Presentation: Enterprise Batch Processing with Spring
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Wayne Lund discusses batch processing, Spring Batch objectives and features, scenarios for using Spring Batch, Spring Batch infrastructure and architecture, scaling Spring Batch, example Spring Batch code, failures and retrying, the Spring Batch Domain Reference Model and execution environment, and the Spring Batch future roadmap.
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The Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism) Is Available for Download
Microsoft has just released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF-June 2008, also known as Prism.
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Presentation: Agile Project Management: Lessons Learned at Google
In this presentation filmed during QCon 2007, Jeff Sutherland, the creator of Scrum, talks about his visit at Google to do an analysis of Google's first implementation of Scrum. He tells how Google started with no engineering management, then gradually introduced Scrum without spoiling the development culture formed over the years.
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Rewards to Improve Team Habits?
Sometimes teams have trouble starting new habits: writing unit tests, fix compiler warnings, not breaking the build. How do we help the team change these habits? Clint Shank designed a game to help people transition.
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Sandcastle Source Released
Last month there was an uproar over hosting Sandcastle, a closed-source tool, on the open source site CodePlex. In response to customer demands, Microsoft has decided to release the source code for Sandcastle.
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Presentation: Building Large AJAX Applications with GWT 1.4 and Google Gears
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Rajeev Dayal discusses building applications with GWT and Google Gears. Topics discussed include an overview of GWT, integrating GWT with other frameworks, GWT 1.4 features, developing large GWT applications, integrating GWT and Google Gears, the architecture of a Google Gears application, Google Gears features and the Google Gears API.
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Google Releases Open Source Web Application Security Assessment Tool
Google has announced the open source release of "ratproxy" - a passive web application security assessment tool.
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'State of Agile' Survey Open for Participation
VersionOne, a maker of agile project management tools, has announced that the third annual 'State of Agile Development' survey is open for participation. The online survey is intended to gauge the value of agile development practices in the field. Results will be announced on August 4th, at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto.
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UDDI and the Framework for Web Services Implementation Technical Committees close
OASIS announces that the UDDI and FWSI technical committees have closed and completed their work.
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Flash Content Now Searchable
In Adobe’s continuing push to eliminate the common objections to Flash adoption comes news that SWF files, the binary format for the Flash Player, is now indexable by Google and Yahoo’s search engines. This is important news for application developers using or considering using Adobe Flex, and the resulting applications will now be searchable.
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Presentation: Security (CAS and OpenID) with Ruby
In this presentation from QCon SF 2007, Justin Gehtland explains two open solutions to distributed identity and their Rails integration components: the OpenID system (using ruby-openid) and CAS (using rubycas-client).
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The Complexity Around Simplicity
Almost all Agile techniques focus on simplicity. Understanding simplicity could itself be a complex task. Many Agile community members believe that simplicity is often misunderstood and this often results in unwanted complexity.