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Software Transactions: A Programming Language Perspective
Erlang has recently generated a lot of interest as a language that can deal both efficiently and elegantly with concurrency. In particular, there is no shared memory between "process" instances which only communicate via asynchronous messages. Nevertheless, Shared Memory Concurrency remains an intense research subject especially for multicore applications.
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RadRails goes 1.0 - adds Profiler, CallGraph Analyzer, Rails Shell, etc.
RadRails 1.0, part of the Aptana IDE, has been released. Next to the powerful refactoring capabilities, it adds profiling tools and GUIs for Ruby, fast jruby-debug support for JRuby, and more. We talked to Christopher Williams of RDT and Aptana about RadRails 1.0.
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GitHub - Rails-based Git repository hosting
Github is a new service, built in Ruby, for hosting git repositories. But there's more: by exploiting git's features, such as quick branching/merging, it allows new, more streamlined ways of cooperation between and experimentation with open source projects.
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Planned Features For EJB 3.1
The EJB 3.1 expert group recently released an early draft of the specification, containing some significant new features as well as a continued simplification of the EJB programming model.
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DbFit 1.0 With Enhanced Querying Capabilities and User Docs
Gojko Adzic has recently announced the version 1.0 release of DbFit, his popular FIT/FitNesse extension used for practicing TDD on database code.
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MonoDevelop reaches RTM
Late last week the MonoDevelop team at Novell announced the RTM of MonoDevelop 1.0.
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Improving Productivity without Formal Metrics
Ron Jeffries has started writing a series of fictional stories based on his observation of real teams. The first story (Kate Oneal: Productivity) focuses on the character Kate O'Neal (CTO) and one of her teams "Rimshot". In this episode Ron explores achieving and measuring Productivity improvements without formal metrics.
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OASIS Symposium: Composability within SOA
OASIS is going to hold a 3 day symposium on the topic of "Composability within SOA" in Santa Clara, CA from April 28th to April 30th. Engineers and Scientists from vendors and end-user companies will discuss topics including mashups, Service-Oriented Ajax, SCA, BPEL, SDO, BPM, Web Service Transactions, Data Security in SOA, SOA Reference Architecture...
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Planning for Eclipse 4.0
Earlier this week, the various teams and developers on Eclipse began discussion on the incubation of new ideas for the future of Eclipse, with a project dubbed 'e4'.
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Integrating Flex 3.0 and RabbitMQ Using STOMP
Derek Wischusen shared his experiment that integrating RabbitMQ with a Flex 3 using an ActionScript 3 STOMP client. It's a demonstration of messaging oriented RIA application concept.
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Microsoft Introduces Dynamic Silverlight
The Dynamic Language team at Microsoft recently introduced its latest technology called Dynamic Silverlight (DSL) at the MIX08 Conference in Las Vegas.
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Creating a RESTful API with WCF
Aaron Sloman and Haider Sabri gave a talk about "Creating a RESTful API with WCF" at MIX08 introducing a sample REST application called RESTChess.
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Should the Customer Care about Agile?
The involvement of customer in an Agile project is taken for granted, however in many situations, intentionally or unintentionally, the customer may not follow the Agile practices. An interesting discussion on the Extreme Programming group tries to decipher the situation and find possible solutions.
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LINQ Framework Design Guidelines
Now that LINQ has been finalized and released, it is time to start thinking about the ways to use it. Keith Farmer even talks about using it eliminate subclasses. But before we get into that, let us take a look at the official guidance from Microsoft.
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Interview: Johanna Rothman on Schedule Games and other Organizational Dysfunctions
Johanna Rothman is an organizational consultant, coach and co-creator of the AYE conference (Accelerate Your Effectiveness). Deborah Hartmann interviewed her at Agile2007 about her third management book - and discovered that there are names for some of the the scheduling games that cause us to spin our wheels, including: Bring Me A Rock, Queen of Denial and Pants on Fire!