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Presentation: Beth Massi on Conquering XML with LINQ in VB9
Beth Massi, the Visual Basic content manager on Microsoft's MSDN, presents on how to work with XML and LINQ in Visual Basic 9.
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Microsoft Live Mesh Keeping your World in Sync
Microsoft released a technology preview of their Windows Live Mesh service designed to connect and synchronize devices, folders and news. The details from Microsoft include giving users of PCs, Macs and Mobile phones access to their information from anywhere.
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Is Cohesion Important for SOA?
Jim Webber re-ignited some interesting discussions about the need (or not) for Cohesive Services within SOA. What started as a fairly innocuous post has certainly generated a lot of debate.
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BPEL4People Virtual Roundtable Interview
In another one of our semi-regular Virtual Roundtables, InfoQ took the opportunity to talk to some of the main authors behind the BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask specifications and find out the driving forces behind it and what we can expect next.
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Mule 2.0 Released
Mule, a lightweight and highly scalable ESB, has just release Mule 2.0. New features in the 2.0 release include improved configuration using XML Schema, a closer Spring integration, and signification architectural improvements.
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Visual Studio Hotfixes - Still a Mess
Though the Visual Studio Hotfixes have been moved to MSDN Code Gallery, developers are still forced to search for hotfixes and service packs.
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.NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit Available
Microsoft has recently made available the .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit.
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MountainWest RubyConf 2008 Videos
The videos from MountainWest RubyConf 2008 are all available for downloading from the Confreaks website. We selected a few videos and provide an overview and some entry points into the talks.
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Terracotta 2.6 Supports Cluster Visualization Tools and Tomcat 6 Integration
The latest version of Terracotta, an open source JVM clustering framework, includes new features like cluster visualization tools and official support for Tomcat 6 platform. Terracotta team announced on Monday, the general availability of version 2.6 of the product which also includes performance improvements in several common use-cases.
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Framework Design Studio Released
Krzysztof Cwalina, along with Hongping Lim and David Fowler, has developed an API management tool they call the Framework Design Studio. This tool can be used to compare different versions of .NET APIs. Users can also append comments to APIs and export them as Word documents.
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Lessons for the Agile Community from 8aweek
InfoQ recently had the opportunity to ask 8aweek co-founders Dave Fowler and Zachary Garbow some questions about how they connect with users, prioritize work, and get things done.
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Amazon upgrades EC2 with Persistent Storage
Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2), which delivers Hardware as a Service (HaaS), is adding persistent storage to its list of features. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels write that "Persistent storage for Amazon EC2 will be offered in the form of storage volumes which you can mount into your EC2 instance as a raw block storage device."
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StrokeDB, Just Another Distributed Database? Not Really.
As Distributed Databases get more and more interest, implementations are flourishing. CouchDB showed the way and is now incubated as an Apache project. RDDB was one of the first Ruby implementation of a Document-Oriented Distributed Database. We will check how a new database, StrokeDB, differentiates itself in the area with new promising features.
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Presentation: JRuby: Not Just Another JVM Language
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, JRuby project lead Charles Nutter discusses the Ruby and JRuby featureset, the JRuby compiler, calling Java from JRuby and vice versa, programming Swing with JRuby, JRuby web applications, JRuby on Rails, persistence, build automation, Test-Driven Development and Behaviour-Driven Development.
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Combining General Purpose Languages and Domain Specific Languages for Model Driven Engineering
In his last blog post, Johan den Haan asks one of the key questions of model driven engineering. The article is didactic and explains how ontological and linguistic metamodels can be combined (orthogonally) to simplify code generation while enabling the combination of general purpose languages and domain specific languages concepts. He uses BPEL and BPMN as a supporting example.