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.NET to Ruby connector available
The Ruby Connector allows communication between .NET and Ruby. This brings the power of .NET to Ruby, and allows to use Ruby to power Visual Studio generated GUIs.
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Presentation: Transaction Management Strategies in Mission Critical Applications
A core part of Spring's middle tier support is the transaction management support. This session presents several interesting "mission critical" cases and shows you how to properly handle them using transactions driven by Spring 2. You'll learn the ins-and-out of the "dark art" that is transaction management within a high-volume mission-critical JEE application.
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OpenJPA 1.0: Enterprise O/R Mapping with full JPA 1.0 compliance
Apache OpenJPA, an open-source implementation of the Java Persistence API (JPA), recently released version 1.0.0. InfoQ spoke with OpenJPA project lead Patrick Linskey to learn more about this release.
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Refactoring and Static Analysis Added to "Data Dude"
Microsoft has released the first set of power tools for VSDBPro, a.k.a Data Dude. These include refactoring, static analysis, MSBuild tasks for data and schema comparison, and a dependency walker.
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Survey claims growing bond between SOA and BPM
The survey shows that BPM and SOA are still loosely coupled within IT organizations. It is only when an organization reaches higher levels of maturity that both plays a complementary role in projects. However, the relationship is growing and customers are increasingly requesting an integrated product suite.
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As Agile Memes Spread, Does Software Development Improve?
Philippe Kruchten reflected upon the culture of Agility. He used the concept of a meme, a replicating chunk of culture, to describe different Agile ideas/practices and suggested that the culture of Agility is a collection of memes – a memeplex. Kruchten claimed the Agility culture is very adept at spreading regardless of whether it helps an organization or not.
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MSBuild and #Develop Support Moves F# Closer to Production Quality
Robert Pickering has been hard at work trying to turn F# into a production-grade language. Since that means tool support, he has developed a MSBuild provider and a #Develop plug-in for F#.
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Don't Run as Administrator: WCF Edition
In an attempt to correct years of bad practices, Microsoft employees have been chanting "Don't Run as Administrator". This time around, Nicholas Allen covers assigning HTTP addresses to non-administrator user accounts, primarily for use by WCF.
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InfoQ Book Review: The Responsibility Virus
Agile teams can use a regular learning cycle to shift gradually and organically into a more collaborative mode. But the rest of the business may not be equally well equipped. Deborah Hartmann proposes that the Responsibility Virus is an important book for the change agent's library, suggesting that it may provide a tool to help other parts of the organization also grow into greater collaboration.
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Opinion: Do Agile Development Practices Always Help?
Are our efforts in Agile development really helping the organizations we work for? What does it mean to ‘help’ our organization anyway? That depends on our organization's goals – if what we are doing moves our organization towards its goals, then the answer is “yes”, otherwise the answer is “absolutely not”, we may even be inadvertently hurting the organization.
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Visual Studio to Finally Address Performance Issues
Visual Studio has been plagued with performance issues that have been getting worse with each version. In a Channel 9 video, Cameron McColl apologized for the past performance issues and talks about improvements for VS 2008.
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Michael Stonebraker: Major RDBMSes are legacy technology
Michael Stonebraker, co-founder of the Ingres and Postgres relational database management systems (RDBMS) and CTO of Vertica Systems, laid the framework for a debate in the database community by declaring that most major databases should be considered legacy technology.
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Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer of MSR on Tesla
The project code-named TESLA in Microsoft Research is being spearheaded by Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer. LINQ is the first released technology aimed at democratizing the Internet coming from Microsoft. From Monoids to LINQ, Brian and Erik provide insight into the future of the .NET Framework languages at Microsoft and how they plan to change the Cloud as we know it today.
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Facebook learns from MySpace mistakes
Today there are 3845 applications on Facebook. Why are so many developers attracted to the Facebook platform? One of the answers is that Facebook learned from the mistakes that MySpace made.
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Are Automated Agile Tools Tactile Enough?
Can the bonding that takes place when a developer picks a story card off the task board and takes it over to her desk ever be replicated in a system? InfoQ delves into social informatics, and addresses the effects it has on the Agile way.