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Are Business Analysts Ready to Become Programmers?
Microsoft seems to think so as they prepare to deliver on the Oslo vision. Back in November 2007 Doug Purdy made a veiled reference to a new project in development calling it "Emacs.NET". This fueled rampant speculation far from the intended mark.
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NUnit 2.5 Alpha released
NUnit one of the original .NET Unit Testing frameworks has just released its 2.5 Alpha. Altough there is only a minor version number change there are a significant number of new features, including: Support for Data Driven Tests, a Parallel Test Runner, ...
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Client-Server Computing: The Future Web?
The most recent buzz on the web has been about Ajax and improved user experiences. Looking to the future, some suggest that the "old" client-server model will be the way to meet users expectations and demands. Could Client-Server computing be the follow-on to Web 2.0 technologies?
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What Social Networks Are Teaching Us About Data Portability
As more social networking sites are popping up, the questions around the data they keep are rising. Data portability has become the watch phrase across the Web 2.0 world. Is there something to be learned about data access and portability from these services?
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Firefox 3 RC1 Adds Javascript 1.8, Microformat Support and More
The Mozilla project has released Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). New features in Firefox 3 include support for Javascript 1.8, DOM and HTML changes, microformats support, and an extended Canvass implementation.
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Is ADO.NET Entity Framework Enterprise Ready?
The ADO.NET Entity Framework relies heavily on visual modeling tools. But are these tools really appropriate for large scale development?
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Results of Agile Adoption Survey 2008
In February 2008, Dr. Dobb's conducted a survey on Agile adoption and the success rate of Agile software development. The survey revealed some interesting results on various parameters, including: adoption, scalability, iteration length, and team location.
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Microsoft Enterprise Libarary 4.0 Released for Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft released a version of their Enterprise Library 4.0 for Visual Studio 2008 and at the same time, Unity 1.1 application block, their dependency injection container.
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Integrate Flex with Spring Framework
As rich-Internet application (RIA) technologies mature, it is becoming increasingly important to integrate RIA applications, such as Adobe Flex, with robust server-side services. One of Java developers' favorite server-side frameworks, Spring, could play an important role in this process. Here are some examples.
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An Explanation of the Phoenix Compiler Framework
Andy Ayers, an architect on the Phoenix Framework, tries to explain what the Phoenix Compiler Framework is and how it works in a video made by Channel9.
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XRI versus URI?
The XSI technical committee is attempting to standardize the 2.0 version of their specification. After 3 years, the W3C is still not convinced about the need for yet another URI scheme. With one of the original intentions behind XRI (Web Services and more "complex" objects on the Web) clearly not in need of XRI, is this a standard too far?
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Interview: James Ward discusses Flex and AIR
In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2007, James Ward discusses Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), Flex and AIR, how Flex helps in the development of RIAs, the changes in ActionScript 3, the Tamarin engine, desktop and offline capabilities, Flex Builder, the Flex developer community, LiveCycle Data Services, the AMF protocol, RIA development trends, and the Flex component model.
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InfoQ China Colour Scheme Goes Gray in Consideration of Earthquake Victims
As China began a three-day official mourning period from May 19th for victims of the May 12 earthquake that happened in Sichuan Province in southwestern China, InfoQ China joined other tech sites and on Monday and changed the whole site's colour scheme to gray as an act to express its mourning.
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Article: Scalability Principles
At the simplest level, scalability is about doing more of something. This could be responding to more user requests, executing more work or handling more data. This article presents some principles and guidelines for building scalable software systems.
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Presentation: Agile Project Lifecycle in User Stories and Release Planning
In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2007, Rachel Davies, director of Agile Alliance, talks about the Agile development cycle starting with user stories and planning the releases.