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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!
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XSLT Profiling in VS 2008
Microsoft's XML Team has released a preview of their XSLT profiler for VS 2008. Unfortunately, only Team System users get to try it out.
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As-a-Service Approaching Parity with Traditional Offerings
"as-a-Service" offerings are approaching parity with the more traditional software models on the market. Recent developments from both new and well established vendors in areas such as SaaS applications, infrastructure, cloud computing, development tools, runtime platforms, and configuration have increased the functionality, and perhaps the acceptance, of "as-a-Service" among more clients.
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Future Focus: Call Hierarchy in Visual Studio
The Visual Studio team has started to shed some light on the current development of Visual Studio, revealing some of the features that will most likely be available in the next release of Microsoft's IDE, and inviting everyone to comment on those features while in their incipient phase.
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The Buzz on SQL Server 2008 CTP6
Community Technology Preview 6 has been in developer's hands for almost a month.
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Rapid web development with J2EE Spider
J2EE Spider re-invigorates J2EE RAD development with visual interfaces (supplied via Eclipse) for generating code and round-trip engineering.
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Article: Deploying JRuby Applications with Java Web Start
JRuby allows to make application deployment easy by allowing to use Java Web Start. This article walks through the necessary steps for deploying a JRuby GUI application (an Object Browser). Additionally, it looks at Ahead Of Time (AOT) Compilation, a new feature in JRuby 1.1, which allows to compile Ruby code to Java bytecode at build time.
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New Agile Community Site Launch
A new site Agile Commons has recently been born, as a result of collaborative work between Rally employees and their customers. It has been launched as an ideas exchange platform funded by Rally & Hivemind, with the aim of becoming the leading resource for Agile minded people, by inviting different types of organisations, Linked In groups to discuss and exchange agile ideas in a single place.
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Download Links for Mix08 Technologies
As Mix08 wound down Tim Sneath published a consolidated list of download links for bits released during the conference.
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Performance Fix Available for VS 2008 and a Surprise Note about VBScript
In an attempt to be more responsive, Microsoft is trying to publicly release hot-fixes more frequently. This hot fix affects the performance of VS 2008 when editing web pages.
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RIATest for Flex Released Beta Product
RIATest, a Flex GUI test automation tool released the beta product to public. InfoQ spoke to Tigran Najaryan, the founder and creator of RIATest, about this release.