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Derek Wischusen on Integrating Flex, BlazeDS and Scala/Lift
Derek Wichusen of Flex on Rails wrote about integrating Flex, BlazeDS and Scala/Lift.
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Does Continuous Production Lead To Extreme Agility?
The idea of continuous production has been around for some time, with Cal Henderson revealing in 2005 that Flickr releases code to production about every 30 minutes. InfoQ investigates continuous production and explores the effects it has on the product lifecycle, and in turn the host organisation.
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Sun SPOTs: Programmable Devices for Java Developers
Sun Microsystems has released the Sun SPOT platform under the GPL license. Sun SPOTs are programmable battery-powered devices controllable with Java technology.
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Agile2008 Reminder: Registration Discounts, Submission Deadline
Agile2008 is scheduled for August 4th-8th 2008, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Sheraton Centre Hotel. The Agile Alliance issued a call for participation in December and reminds us to submit by February 25th. Another way to attend for less is to nab one of the limited number of discounted super-early-bird registrations.
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ASP.NET MVC Example with Northwind and Entity Framework Published
Brad Abrams, founding member of the CLR and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft, published a good example of how developers can leverage the MVC Framework with some of the new tools from Microsoft.
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Interview: Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio
In this interview from QCon San Francisco, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson discusses the origins and philosophy of Spring, the Spring Portfolio, Spring Web Flow, Spring Batch, Spring.Net, the partnership with Tasktop Technologies, and community involvement and utilization of Spring.
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MSDN Code Gallery Goes Live
Microsoft has created a new site named Code Gallery, dedicated to code and application sharing. Both Microsoft employees and community members can contribute to this site and use the resources available on it.
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Right-Size Your User Stories
For those using User Stories, getting them right is one of the difficult aspects of an Agile process - they can drive or bog down your work. Pat Kua recently addressed a key question: How much detail should you put in your story? The answer, of course, is "it depends" on where you are in the process.
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Tasktop: Bringing Mylyn's Task-Focused Interface to Everyone
Tasktop Technologies, the company which created Eclipse Mylyn and leads its development, released Tasktop version 1.0 today. InfoQ interviewed Tasktop CEO Mik Kersten to learn more about this release and how it brings Mylyn's task-focused interface to a much larger audience.
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Cosmos - An Option To Singularity
Just released to the public, Cosmos is an operating system implemented entirely in .NET compiled IL.
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Anvil - Ruby MVC GUI library
Anvil is a new Ruby GUI MVC framework aimed to make GUI development with Ruby simpler. Taking ideas from Rails and Merb, it provides code generators and other tools to automate much of the tedious work. InfoQ caught up with the developer Lance Carlson to see what's behind Anvil and what's planned for future releases.
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How Does Language Impact Framework Design?
Do certain languages, like Ruby, lend themselves to frameworks that are more productive than those of other languages, such as Java?
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Article: Getting Started With SharePoint Web Services
Trent Swanson walks through accessing SharePoint Web Services from both Java and .NET.
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ActionScript Libraries Help Mashing up the Web 2.0 Platforms
ActionScript is notably showing increased presence on web platforms for mashup, backed by a number of open source ActionScript projects. InfoQ took a look at some of the open source ActionScript libraries developed for a few major Web 2.0 and E-commerce companies.
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Kent Beck on Implementation Patterns
What does good code look like? In this interview, Kent Beck talks about his new book, Implementation Patterns, that deals with this question. Kent explains why Compose Method is so important, but also talks about the relationship between implementation patterns and XP, the history of software patterns and why he believes that Cockburn's Shu-Ha-Ri description of learning is naïve and simplistic.