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RedHat Shifts Virtualization Strategy from Xen to KVM
Last week at the Red Hat Summit, Red Hat announced a new hypervisor based on KVM. This announcement is particularly interesting given Red Hat's previous support of the Xen hypervisor.
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JXInsight 5.6: Problem Diagnostic, Transaction Analysis and App Mgmt
Last week JInspired announced the release of JXInsight 5.6, its enterprise Java performance monitoring, problem diagnostic, transaction analysis and application management solution. InfoQ spoke to William Louth, the JXInsight product architect, get the inside scoop.
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AJAX developers continue migrating to unobtrusive JavaScript
Unobtrusive JavaScript is an emerging technique that separates JavaScript from HTML markup. This is quite similar to the separation between styling and HTML that came about with the creation of CSS in the late 90s.
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Opinion: When Designing Your SOA - Taste is Everything
Dan Creswell claims that "taste is everything" when it comes to putting together the pieces that make a good SOA. Dan says that picking the technology stack for distributed services, how you layer the service "units", etc, are a matter of taste as well as consideration of a number of guidelines, as opposed to just taking a cookie cutter approach to SOA as some seem to claim is possible.
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Manipulate Office Documents from the Command Line
PowerTools for Open XML is a PowerShell extension that makes it easy to create and manipulate MS Office documents from the command line.
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Interview: Mark Little on Transactions, Web Services, and REST
In this interview, recorded at QCon London 2008, Red Hat Director of Standards and Technical Development Manager for the SOA platform Mark Little talks about extended transaction models, the history of transaction standardization, their role for web services and loosely coupled systems, and the possibility of an end to the Web services vs. REST debate.
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Eclipse Ganymede: An in-depth look at JDT (Java Development Tools)
As part of the upcoming Eclipse Ganymede release, scheduled for June 25th, InfoQ will cover a series of Eclipse subprojects. Today, the subproject is JDT (Java Development Tools), which is releasing version 3.4. InfoQ spoke with Philippe Mulet, lead of the Eclipse project, and Martin Aeschlimann, lead of the JDT UI subproject, to learn more about what to expect in Ganymede.
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Subversion 1.5 released
Subversion, a mature open source version control system used by many open source projects, has just released version 1.5. New features include: merge tracking, sparse checkouts, and conflict resolution in the command line client.
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Einstein: an Experimental 4GL for SOA
SOA implementation typically requires usage of multiple technologies for implementing different SOA aspects. Such implementation is a daunting task, requiring, at a minimum, understanding different technologies, involved in typical SOA implementation. One of the possible solutions to this complexity is developing Domain Specific programming languages for SOA.
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The multicore crises: Scala vs. Erlang
There has been a somewhat heated debate about Scala vs. Erlang on the blogosphere recently. The future will be multi-cored, and the question is how the multi-core crises will be solved. Scala and Erlang are two languages that aspire to be the solution, but they are a bit different. What are the pros and cons with their approaches?
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DocTest 1.0 For Ruby Released
Included in the Python standard library, various DocTest Ruby implementations were made available starting one year ago by Tom Locke, Roger Pack, and more recently Dr Nic. We caught up with Duane Johnson who added his changes into the 1.0 version. We discussed DocTest and when docstring-driven testing should be used.
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UNO, OpenOffice, and MonoDevelop
Microsoft Office developers have long bragged about their ability to control pretty much anything in Office via COM automation. But unbeknownst to most, OpenOffice developers have a few tricks up their sleeve.
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Eclipse Ganymede: An in-depth look at PDE (Plugin Development Environment)
As part of the upcoming Eclipse Ganymede release which is scheduled for June 25th, InfoQ will cover a series of Eclipse subprojects. Today, the subproject is PDE (Plugin Development Environment), which is releasing version 3.4. InfoQ spoke with Chris Aniszczyk, PDE Technical Lead and Principal Consultant at Code9, to learn more about PDE and what it provides.
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Ruby interpreter vulnerabilities
A few vulnerabilities were found Ruby 1.8.x and 1.9.x and could potentially allow for DoS attacks or allow attackers to execute arbitrary code. Patched versions of Ruby are already available.
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IcedTea: The First 100% Compliant Open-Source Java
The IcedTea project has passed the Java Test Compatibility Kit, becoming the first 100% open-source licensed Java implementation to be completely verified as Java-compliant.