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The "use" Binding In F# and How It Should Be Applied To C# and VB
Possible enhancements for F# show how VB and C# can also change in the future.
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Capistrano gets competition: Vlad the Deployer
Capistrano, a popular deployment tool for Rails, is challenged by Vlad the Deployer, a tool which offers similar functionality with a much simpler implementation. We talked to the Ruby Hit Squad group that released version 1.0 of Vlad.
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Team Foundation Server 2008: Out-Of-The-Box Support for Continuous Integration
Along with Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft will be releasing a new version of TFS (Team Foundation Server). TFS 2008 will provide extended support for Continuous Integration.
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The Role Of Leadership - Agile 2007
Mary Poppendieck spoke at Agile 2007 providing an insight into the adaptation of manufacturing management principles in the software development arena.
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TestMaker 5 Adds Distributed Test Support and Performance Comparison Utility
PutshToTest has released TestMaker 5.0 which allows developers to turn their unit tests into functional tests, load tests, and automated monitors. Among the new features in 5.0 are distributed test support, integration of SoapUI, and a new performance comparison utility.
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The Curious Nature of Transactions in ADO.NET and LINQ
Transactions in LINQ rely on TransactionScope, a .NET 2.0 class that uses a distinctly non-OO design pattern that relies on gloabls.
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ORM with JRuby - ActiveHibernate
The ActiveHibernate project brings Hibernate features to JRuby - for those tricky ORM use cases that go beyond what ActiveRecord offers. We talked to project maintainer Johan Andries.
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Open Source LINQ to SQL Debugger
Scott Guthrie has posted an article on the LINQ to SQL debugger features along with the source code for the debugger. Among these is the ability to see the raw SQL generated by the query. Equally interesting is the ability to execute the query with one click, the results being displayed in standard grid.
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Eclipse Web Tools Platform 2.0: Now with JPA and JSF tools
As part of the Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) release two months ago, Version 2.0 of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) was released. InfoQ spoke with WTP co-lead Jess Garms to learn more about this release and about WTP in general.
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Promesh.NET - an MVC Web Framework for .NET
Philippe Leybaert recently released a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for creating .NET 2.0 web applications, named ProMesh.NET. The framework was released on Codeplex under an open source license. MVC frameworks have gained popularity lately with Ruby on Rails and most recently with the Castle Project and MonoRails, also an MVC framework.
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Amazon FPS: customized payment service & DSL
Amazon released a beta of its new Amazon Flexible Payment Service – Amazon FPS. FPS lowers transaction costs and supports micro payments. An unlimited number of Payment Instructions can be defined using a DSL. FPS makes it possible and easy to build customized payment management services, which, according to Amazon, will ultimately result in creation of innovative business models.
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Eclipse DLTK 0.9 Supports Tcl, Ruby and More
In the Eclipse Europa simultaneous release, in addition to Eclipse 3.3, a number of other Eclipse projects were released, including Eclipse DLTK 0.9. DLTK, or Dynamic Language Tool Kit is a plugin designed to add support for dynamic languages within Eclipse. InfoQ took the opportunity to speak with Andrey Platov, the Eclipse DLTK Project Lead.
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What is an Architect anyway?
An MSDN Blogger poses some pretty broad questions, including: What exactly is software architecture? Do we really need it? Why have we only recently been discussing it? He then attempts to tackle some of these questions by taking us through a short history of the role of the Architect.
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JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 7 M2 Adds Groovy/Grails Support, Dependency Analysis
JetBrains has released the second milestone of IntelliJ IDEA 7. Among the features of M2 are enhanced Groovy/Grails support, dependency analysis tools, and better Spring/Hibernate integration.
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Is Erlang the Java for the concurrent future?
The future of computing is going to be concurrent. Even desktop CPUs are multicore nowadays, and when customers are buying more and more CPUs to their servers, they expect their applications to scale well to utilize their new investment. But that's not going to happen with many software systems of today. Can Erlang help?