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Mate Flex Framework Alpha in Spotlight
Mate is gaining a lot of attention among the Flex community. Mate is a tag-based Flex framework created by AsFusion. Although it has been used internally at AsFusion for a long time, the Alpha version was just released recently.
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JetBrains Releases ReSharper 4.0 with Many Improvements, C# 3.0 Support
JetBrains has released the much-anticipated productivity Visual Studio add-in, ReSharper 4.0. Resharper 4.0 includes many improvements and new features.
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Presentation: Dealing With the Organizational Challenges of Agile Adoption
In this presentation filmed during QCon London 2007, Joseph Pelrine talks about the challenges faced by organizations trying to adopt Agile methods.
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SQL Server 2008 RC0 Has Been Released to the Public
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 RC0 to the general public.
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Ruby VM Roundup: MacRuby 0.2, JRuby JMX, Ruby 1.9
Work on MacRuby has continued, and now version 0.2 is released, continuing its path to tighter Cocoa and Objective-C integration. The JRuby trunk adds JMX MBeans to monitor the JRuby internals, e.g. the JIT. Also: Ruby 1.9.0-2 and API updates are coming up.
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QCon San Francisco Nov 19-21 Enterprise Software Development Conference Launched
QCon is coming back to San Francisco this November 19-21st, featuring speakers such as Martin Fowler, Eric Meijer (creator of LINQ), Rod Johnson (Spring), and others. Digg.com, Facebook, Yellowpages.com and MySpace.com architectures will be presented. QCon is the conference for enterprise software development team leads, architects and project management.
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Presentation: Agile Architecture Is Not Fragile Architecture
In this presentation filmed during QCon 2007, Coplien and Henney describe how to start with enough architecture to ensure long term success of an Agile developed project.
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NCache: A Distributed Cache for the .NET Platform Available Today
While we wait for Microsoft to finish Velocity, its attempt at building distributed memory cache for the .NET platform, we turn to other more established vendors. One such vendor is Alachisoft's and its NCache product. Currently Alachisoft offers both a free and a paid SKU, the latter supporting NHibernate.
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Interview: Randy Shoup Discusses the eBay Architecture
In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2007, Randy Shoup discusses the architecture of eBay. Topics discussed include eBay's architectural principles, horizontal and vertical partitioning, ACID vs. BASE, handling data inconsistency, distributed caching, updating eBay on the fly, architectural and coding standards, eBay's search infrastructure, grid computing, and SOA.
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Agile 2008 Program Announced
The program for Agile 2008, Expanding Agile Horizons has just been announced. This year the program was This year it features a number of stages (i.e. tracks) from which attendees can sample: Main Stage, Research, Breaking Acts, Questioning Agile, Customers and Business Value, User Experience, Developer Jam, Tools for Agility,...
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OAuth Gaining Momentum
OAuth, an open standard for access delegation, is gaining momentum with a number of implementations including one for Spring Security.
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Article: David Nuescheler on JCR and REST
In this interview, Day CTO and JCR Spec Lead David Nuescheler discusses the benefits of JCR, the Java Content Repository standard, the difference between an API such as Atom/Atom Publishing protocol and JCR, JCR's connection to REST, and Apache Sling, a new kind of Web framework.
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Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Released
SharePoint is rapidly becoming the default CMS platform for companies building internal website using Microsoft technologies. SharePoint, though loaded with features out of the box, is often heavily customized using ASP.NET. In order to facilitate that, Microsoft has recently released several resources for both new and experienced SharePoint developers.
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ActionScript Framework JumpShip 3.1 Released with Extensive Ruby on Rails Support
JumpShip, version 3.1, the most recent addition to open-source Flex and ActionScript rich Internet applications (RIA) was released on May 21, 2008. As part of our efforts to stay abreast of RIA development frameworks, InfoQ spoke with Jamie Scanlon, the creator of JumpShip Framework.
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Deprecated and Discontinued Features in SQL Server 2008
Everybody is waiting for the new features coming with Microsoft SQL Server 2008, but there are some deprecated and discontinued features that we should be aware of.