InfoQ Homepage News
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ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Brings Out Many Value Additions
The ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2 has been released last week and offers a lot of new features and many refactorings.
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Apple Manager Writes "Managing Humans" to Help Techies
It’s Michael Lopp’s belief that developers are trained to manage bits well, but not humans. When developers are promoted to managers much harm can be inflicted. Michael uses stories and humour to warn us of the many perils of management and how to navigate around them.
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Java Posse Roundup 2008 & OpenSpace Conferences
Last week, the 2008 Java Posse Roundup was held in Crested Butte, Colorado. The Roundup is an OpenSpace conference.
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eXo Java Content Repository 1.8 Released
The eXo Platform team has released eXo JCR (Java Content Repository) 1.8. The eXo JCR product is a JSR-170-compliant Java content repository implementation.
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Panel: Java Object Persistence: State of the Union
In this panel, the editors of InfoQ.com (Floyd Marinescu) and ODBMS.org (Roberto V. Zicari) asked a group of leading persistence solution architects their views on the current state of the union in persistence in the Java community.
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Presentation: Introduction to Spring.NET
Dr. Mark Pollack, founder of Spring.NET, provides an introduction focused on implementing and designing loosely coupled application architectures.
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Nokia sees the Silverlight
Nokia announced it will make Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 available for its S60 phones running Symbian OS as well as Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets. Silverlight will give developers opportunities to create rich and interactive applications running on multiple platforms.
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Design and Code Reviews : The Good, Bad and Ugly
Kirk Knoernschild shares his thoughts about Design and Code reviews. He mentions that such reviews promise to improve software quality, ensure compliance with standards, and serve as a valuable teaching tool for developers. However, the way they are performed affects their value. In some organizations they might really add whereas in others a review might just be a part of the bureaucracy.
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A New Way to Write Mashups in IE
Microsoft is creating a new way to write mashup-like functionality with what they call "Activities". Rather than being defined within a specific page, users can launch the same set of Activities regardless of what page they are on. The specifications for these have been released under Creative Commons and include patent protection, making them available to other web browser vendors.
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Surveys from BPTrends and BEA Reflect on "The State of BPM in 2008"
In the past couple of weeks, two major reports on "The State of BPM in 2008" were published by BPTrends and BEA. The reports show a fast growing market lead by major SOA infrastructure vendors, a significant growth of the adoption of BPMN and a steady growth of BPEL. Drivers for adopting a BPM approach range from cost savings to compensating for missing functionality in enterprise applications.
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SharpDevelop 3.0 Enters Beta
With the recent release of the .NET Framework version 3.5, a new release of SharpDevelop 3.0 is pending.
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SQL Server Data Services: Microsoft's Answer to Amazon S3
Microsoft has announced SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) at MIX08. Being a storage service on the web, SSDS is Microsoft's Amazon S3 competitor.
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JRuby support in Ruby in Steel for Visual Studio
SapphireSteel's Ruby in Steel IDE for Visual Studio just added another feature: JRuby support. This includes a new fast debugger for JRuby. We talked to Huw Collingbourne about this new feature.
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POJO Messaging Architecture with Terracotta
Mark Turansky detailed his implementation of a message bus architecture using Terracotta and Java 5. Instead of using an MQ or JMS based deployment, Mark took advantage of the Terracotta architecture to create his POJO message bus. This allowed for a clean, simple, and inexpensive infrastructure solution to his message needs.
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Windows Server 2008 Available for Evaluation
The long awaited Windows Server 2008 is finally here. Was it worth waiting for?