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Presentation: Painless Persistence with Castle ActiveRecord
This presentation by Hamilton Verissimo and Oren Eini show Castle Active Record - an ORM solution for .NET building on NHibernate. After an introduction, the presentation dives into various advanced topics and techniques for working with Castle Active Record.
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IzPack: Cross-Platform Installer Not Just For Java
Packaging, distributing and deploying an application can be a very difficult task. Add in the requirement to work on multiple platforms and it can quickly become a nightmare. IzPack aims to not only make it possible but to also make it simple.
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GemStone Reveals Plans for MagLev Ruby VM at RailsConf 2008
At RailsConf on Friday, Avi Bryant and Bob Walker of GemStone revealed plans for the MagLev project. MagLev will run Ruby on Rails within GemStone's distributed object technology. The MagLev VM, although only partially implemented, so far outperforms MRI 1.8.
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Presentation: Steve Freeman about Test Driven Development
In this presentation filmed during QCon 2007, Steve Freeman, an independent consultant, talks about TDD, why is it helpful and gives an example on doing it.
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Sysinternals Live Launches
Microsoft launched Systinternals Live in order to provide a persistent link to the the Sysinternals tools for developers and IT staff.
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Handling Interruptions on an Agile Project
Interruptions on a project, are known to, damage the flow of work. A discussion on the Extreme programming group and Alistair Cockburn with his "Sacrifice one person" pattern suggest ways to handle interruptions so that the impact on the project is minimized.
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Client Side Storage Momentum Continues with PersistJS and MySpace Adoption of Gears
PersistJS, a JavaScript framework enabling client-side data storage, was released last week by Paul Duncan. MySpace also made an announcement at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco this week that they are now using Gears for message searching. With the Gears solution in place, full-text searches are performed on the client side.
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Cloud Tools bring Java EE on Amazon EC2
Chris Richardson the author of "POJOs in Action", has released Cloud Tools, a set of tools for deploying and testing Java EE applications on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). It's a Groovy framework that provides an API for launching EC2 instances; configuring MySQL, Tomcat servers; and deploying more web applications. In addition, it can also run JMeter and collect performance metrics.
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Presentation: Jeff Sutherland Talks about Companies Adopting Agile
In this presentation, Jeff Sutherland, the co-creator of Scrum Agile Development Process, talks about small and large companies which are adopting Agile.
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Concurrency Presentation Scheduled for the PDC Pre-Conference Sessions
Microsoft's The Parallel Computing Platform team will be presenting on Concurrent, Multi-core Programming for Windows and .NET during the PDC pre-conference Sessions. These sessions are day-long, in-depth presentations on specific topics. Held the Sunday before the main conference, a separate registration is required.
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Top 5 Ways to Reduce Flex Application Startup Time
Jun Heider has an excellent piece on O’Reilly’s InsideRIA site discussing a number of the options for minimizing the startup time of Flex applications, in hopes of helping developers reduce the amount of time that users see the ugly "Loading" dialog. He covers the different areas of consideration in depth, along with any important pros and cons to consider for each technique.
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WfXML-R: REST based process integration
WfXML-R is a lightweight approach to BPM that utilizes several Web 2.0 standards and protocols including Atom/AtomPub, GData, OpenSearch and OpenID/OAuth.
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Introducing the ALT.NET Podcast
InfoQ learned about a new podcast recently called the ALT.NET Podcast. This podcast focusing on the community of developers brought together who represent what is ALT.NET. Folks should remember the ALT.NET term coined by David Laribee.
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Defining Cloud Computing
The term "cloud computing" has shown up everywhere from the Web 2.0 conference to the enterprise architecture whiteboard sessions in big companies to the laptops of startup developers. The big question being asked now is "what is cloud computing?"
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Windows 7 Will Be the Next Operating System from Microsoft
Chris Flores, a Microsoft director on the Windows Client Communications Team, talks about the future of Windows.