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Book Excerpt and Review: Release It!
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael Nygard discusses what it takes to make production-ready software, and explains how this differs from feature-complete software. InfoQ spoke with Michael Nygard and asked him several questions related to the book and some of the issues it raises.
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Rails 2.0 - What's a Newbie to Do?
Rails 2.0 is out - but some of the standard books and tutorials haven't been updated to this version yet. Trying to learn about Rails with a Rails 1.2 book or tutorial, but running Rails 2.0 is bound to cause some frustration. We look at the best approach to tackle this.
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Breaking Changes for ASP.NET 2 and IIS 7
Version 7 brings a major rewrite to Internet Information Server. The most important of these revolves around the new integrated mode, which allows .NET modules to be plugged into any stage of the IIS pipeline. However, when running ASP.NET in integrated mode reveals several breaking changes.
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Ruby 1.9 released
Ruby 1.9 has just been released, bringing a host of new features and improvements. Speed improvements come from the new YARV VM, concurrency features were updates with native threading and Fibers, and language changes such as a new Hash literal syntax tighten the language. We take a look at some of the features and where to find information about Ruby 1.9.
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RubyConf 2007 Presentations Now Online
Confreaks, who provide recording and networking services for conferences have just recently released the complete set of presentations from this year's RubyConf, the seventh international Ruby conference which took place in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
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I'm Not Sure What You Heard is What I Thought I Said
Are family celebrations a challenge? You get together to catch up and swap stories, and invariably something gets "taken the wrong way." It's not restricted to families is it? So it's not surprising that the Satir Communication Model jumped the fence from family therapy to team building! J.B. Rainsberger uses an amusing Christmas-at-Walmart anecdote to illustrate its use.
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Rules versus Procedural Code
Paul Haley, rule technology visionary, discusses criteria for choosing rule engines versus procedural code in business process solutions, as well as examining the current state of BPM/BRM integration.
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Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework
The .NET Compact Framework is used for smaller devices such as smart phones and handheld computers as well as the XBox 360. The recently released 3.5 version now includes a host of debugging tools known collectively Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5.
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The Power of Checklists
In a recent New Yorker article, Atul Gawande describes how Dr. Peter Pronovost is dramatically decreasing infection rates in hospital intensive care units with "stupid little checklists". If simple checklists can save lives, can they improve your agile development team?
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Microsoft Open Sources Tafiti Search Visualization
Microsoft announced the release of the Tafiti Search Visualization source code to CodePlex. Developers can now download, modify and resell the source code. The release of the source code is under the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL). Tafiti is web search site from Microsoft to demonstrate the use of Silverlight and Live Search APIs to provide better and more specialized search.
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Sun open sources virtualization management tool suite
Sun Microsystems recently released xVM platform, a virtualization and management tool suite which includes two products: xVM Ops Center and xVM Server. Ops Center is a management console used for the discovery, provisioning, updating, and monitoring of virtual and physical IT assets. Sun xVM Server is a Xen based open-source hypervisor that will run Windows, Linux, and Solaris operating systems.
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Separating business logic from technology: Kathleen Dollard on a new view of code generation
Even the most successful project becomes a failure when a new technology comes out and everything has to be rewritten from the ground. This is why business logic has to be separated from technology. And, according to Kathleen Dollard, code generation is a promising approach to achieve it.
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Interview: David Heinemeier Hansson talks Ruby on Rails 2.0
David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37Signals, gave InfoQ the opportunity to speak with him about the latest release of Ruby on Rails, version 2.0 and what it means to get this release out-the-door.
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DB40 v7 and Increasing Popularity of ODBMS
db4o has been growing fast lately, having recently released v7.0 beta of their flagship db4o embedded OODBMS, and claiming over 30,000 deployments of their open source ODBMS. Is this a sign of changing times reflecting the ODBMS landscape?
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Add-on Studio for World of Warcraft Based on VS Shell
The IDE "Add-on Studio for World of Warcraft" was developed in roughly two weeks by two developers using VS Shell as a base. It features Intellisense, tool panes, and a graphical design surface.