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Presentation: Ruby and the Art of Domain Specific Languages
Rich Kilmer gives an introduction to the art of creating Domain Specific Languages in Ruby. The presentation gives a basic introduction, but moves on to useful distinctions in DSL styles, such as implicit vs. explicit internal DSLs or declarative vs. imperative DSLs. A look at a long list of real world DSLs Rich has created rounds of the presentation.
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Leading Troubled Projects: Secure Your Own Oxygen Mask First
Fiona Charles' recent StickyMinds article looked at leading troubled projects. Stressing that "this is not the time for rigid process over progress," she provided valuable insights to help a team turn around a troubled project. She also reminded us to watch out for improvement: if there is none it could be a Death March, and time to leave.
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Creating Domain Specific Languages with Groovy
Today marked the first day of the Groovy/Grails Experience, also known as 2GX, in Reston, Virginia. The conference spans three days and includes forty 90-minute sessions, panel discussions and code workshops. One of the first sessions of the day was Venkat Subramaniam's "DSL In Groovy." Venkat provided a thorough discussion on DSLs and how Groovy eases the creation and usage of them.
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Bringing Scripting back to VB
Historically Visual Basic has its roots in scripting and dynamic programming, but never fully embraced it. This is seen in mismatched language features such as the ability to consume objects via late binding, a.k.a. duck typing, but no ability to define them. In a presentation at Lang.NET, Paul Vick talks about bringing scripting back to VB.
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Custom MSBuild Tasks
Since version 2.0 Microsoft has integrated MSBuild, a build system, into the .NET Framework that is fully compatible with Visual Studio projects. Bart de Smet shows how to extend MSBuild via custom tasks.
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Scott Guthrie outlines the .NET 3.5 Client Roadmap
Scott Guthrie recently outlined some of the changes developers can expect when building .NET 3.5 Windows Client applications. These changes will be released over the next few months.
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Interview and Book Excerpt: Model Based Software Testing and Analysis with C#
Recently published, Model Based Software Testing and Analyis with C#, by Cambridge University Press. Infoq was able to speak with all four authors about their personal views on model based testing and analysis: Jonathan Jacky, Margus Veanes, Colin Campbell and Wolfram Schulte.
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The Future Of Functional Testing
Jennitta Andrea & Ward Cunningham recently hosted a WebCast on 'Envisioning the Next Generation of Functional Test Tools'. Also, towards the end of last year Thoughtworks' announced its intention to release a next generation functional testing tool. InfoQ investigates the growing momentum for change in the area of functional testing and how the thought leaders in this area see it developing.
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JRuby 1.1RC2 released with reduced memory requirements
The JRuby 1.1 release is inching closer: Release Candidate 2 is out - and it's a big update with many bug fixes. A big update was the work on the Ruby to JVM bytecode JIT, which now requires less memory and shares JITed code among multiple JRuby runtimes in the same JVM.
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Zune Game Development with XNA Game Studio 3.0
Microsoft has announced the upcoming XNA Game Studio 3.0 which will support developing games for the entire family of Zune media devices. XNA will bridge the PC, Xbox and Zune platforms to the extent that a game written for one of the platforms will run on all of them.
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QCon Panel: What will the Future of Java Development Be?
In this panel from QCon San Francisco, Joshua Bloch, Chet Haase, Rod Johnson, Erik Meijer and Charles Nutter discussed and debated the future of the Java language and APIs based upon the lessons we have learned from the past. Topics included static versus dynamic languages, removing code from Java, forking the JVM, and the next big programming language.
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Assigning File Types to ClickOnce Applications
With .NET 3.5, it is now possible to associate up to eight file types with a ClickOnce application.
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White: A New Windows UI Developer Testing Framework
The White project is an automated testing framework for Win32, WinForm, WPF and SWT (java) applications. Use it in combination with your favorit xUnit framework just like WatiN to perform user acceptance testing.
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Interview: Wilson Bilkovich Discusses Rubinius
Wilson Bilkovich is an Engine Yard employee working as a core Rubinius team member. Wilson discusses various Rubinius systems and how they're implemented, as well as distributed version control systems, the Ruby Hit Squad, RubyGems and more.
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Infiniflow: Next-Generation Distributed Application Server based on OSGi and SCA
Paremus recently released version 1.2 of Infiniflow, a next-generation distributed application server based on OSGi and SCA. InfoQ spoke with Paremus Marketing Manager Andrew Rowney to learn more about this release and about Infiniflow's new application server model.