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Are Agile Development Practices Detrimental to Architecture and Design?
Is iterative and incremental development à la Agile practices - where one builds only what is required per iteration - detrimental to good design? Does Scrum encourage ignoring architectural issues? Can design and architecture evolve effectively without the technical Agile practices? Does test-first development lead to good design? Or does the red-green-refactor loop stall at local-minima?
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Article: Using ETags to Reduce Bandwith & Workload with Spring & Hibernate
Gavin Terrill explores one of the lessor known facilities available to web developers, the humble "ETag Response Header", and how to integrate its use in a Spring and Hibernate based web app to improve application performance and scalability.
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Interview: IBM SOA VP Sandy Carter
Sandy Carter, author of "SOA and Web 2.0", talks about SOA at the business level: how to think about SOA, SOA vs. BPM, how to sell SOA to management, why SOA will be more long lived than EAI, and IBM's view that SOA adoption is now in the early majority phase
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Ruby.NET moves to open source community model
The team of the (Gardens Point) Ruby.NET compiler announced that it'll start working towards opening their project to outside committers.
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QnA on SubSonic
SubSonic is a .NET Open Source project modeled after Rails. Think of it as a Swiss Army knife for building websites and working with data in Object-Relational fashion. Eric and Rob favored InfoQ with insight into their creation.
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Wiki-style GUI Layout with Profligacy and LEL
Profligacy is a new JRuby based GUI library created by Zed Shaw. It's aimed at tackling the GUI layout problem with LEL, a compact Wiki-like notation for GUI layouts.
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Eric Newcomer on the future of OSGi
Eric Newcomer, co-chair of the Enterprise OSGi working group, talks about OSGi and where he sees it going in the future, including its relationship to ESB and SOA technologies.
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Opinion: SOA doesn’t need a Common Information Model
Loose coupling is not just about using a common syntax and protocols, it is also about creating and managing a set of shared semantics. Let’s take a quick look at the differences between a common information model and shared semantics and decide which one you are more likely to use in a service oriented architecture.
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Using memcached with ASP.NET
Instead of ASP.Net's built-in caching, some .NET developers are turning to memcached, is a distributed memory caching system originally by Danga Interactive for LiveJournal.
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InfoQ Presentation: DSDM and Lean Explained
This second Agile2006 Agile Styles video looks at DSDM and Lean. Jean Tabaka covered the history and principles of the venerable DSDM methodology, founded in 1994 and now accepted in the UK for use on government contracts. Mary Poppendieck gave real examples of how the 7 Lean principles provide competitive advantage, and discussed the relationship between quality, speedy delivery and low cost.
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Azul Systems: Next generation Java-based 768 core server released
Azul Systems has announced the release of their third-generation Java-based computing appliance with 768 processing cores. Azul also recently settled a lawsuit with Sun Microsystems. InfoQ caught up with Azul's Gaetan Castelein to discuss these recent events.
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Evan Phoenix on Rubinius - VM Internals Interview
Rubinius is a Ruby implementation with a twist: it's written (mostly) in Ruby, building on concepts from Smalltalk VMs. We talked to Rubinius project lead Evan Phoenix about the state of the project and VM internals.
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jQuery: A new way to write JavaScript for rich web UI
jQuery is a JavaScript Library that simplifies traversing HTML documents, handling events, performing animations, and adding Ajax interactions to web pages. jQuery provides an API to develop feature rich web UI much faster and with fewer lines of code than the traditional JavaScript.
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Launch Date set for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008
Yesterday Kevin Turner announced the release date of the next versions of Visual Studio, SQL Server Windows Server at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, CO.
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IBM Interoperability Pledge
IBM announced that it is granting universal and perpetual access to certain intellectual property that might be necessary to implement more than 150 standards designed to make software interoperable, including SCA and SDO.