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Lucene 2.2: Payloads, Function queries, and more speed
Lucene Java 2.2 is now available. Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. There are several new features in this version, and InfoQ spoke with Grant Ingersoll, a committer and Project Management Committee (PMC) member for the Lucene project, to learn more about this release.
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Three approaches to JRuby GUI APIs
Ruby already has a host of bindings for various GUI toolkits. JRuby now allows the use of Java's Swing and there are already a few libraries trying to make Swing less tedious to work with. We look at the approaches taken in Profligacy, Cheri, and the JavaFX Script clone Swiby.
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Time for Change: Agile Teams in Traditional Organisations
Agile teams seem to be meeting more resistance, as they scale up and move from "early adopter" territory into the mainstream. Does this mean Agile can't work in more traditional organisations? Not necessarily, say coaches Michael Spayd and Joe Little, in a new InfoQ interview: what's needed now is an awareness of the need to facilitate organizational change.
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SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer No Longer Tied to Service Packs
According to Paul Mestemaker, the SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer is no longer being tied to SQL Server Service Pack releases. This announcement is being made in conjunction with the first production release of the tool.
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OpenJDK Project Releases Java Module System (JSR 277) and Improved Modularity (JSR 294) EA Snapshot
The OpenJDK project has released early an access snapshot of the Java Module System (JSR 277) and Improved Modularity Support (JSR 294). JSR 277 addresses modularity from a deployment unit perspective. JSR 294 addresses modularity from a development perspective, introducing a new language construct, called superpackages, for information hiding.
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Working with Mingle
InfoQ had some time with Mingle project engineer Jay Wallace, to use ThoughtWorks' much anticipated Mingle software and demonstrate to us how it differentiates itself from other products by being a truly agile project management tool.
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Performance Problems with Lambdas
The LINQ Cookbook reveals some performance issues when using lambdas instead of traditional functions.
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Rails Mockup Driven Development with Lilu
There was a debate 2 years ago about Rails and its lack of a built in templating language, and whether one should be introduced. Today there are more than 5 templating systems: ERB, HAML, Liquid, Amrita2. All of them however mix Ruby or Ruby derivatives with HTML. Lilu aims at completely decoupling static HTML and Ruby code.
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Presentation: The Beauty of Ruby
As Edd Dumbill wrote, "the subtle elegance of the Ruby idiom is a slowly appreciated and highly satisfying flavour." It's true that some of the best things about Ruby aren't obvious to newcomers. In this talk Glenn Vanderburg demonstrates some of the subtle beauty that experienced Rubyists know and love.
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Agile Measurement - A Missing Practice?
Tom Gilb and Lindsey Brodie have written an article that suggests that Agile methods have a major weakness - that of lack of quantification. They argue that all qualities can be expressed quantitatively and present a new process, PLanguage, which looks very much like Scrum with an explicit measurement step. Are they right? Are Agile methods such as Scrum and XP in need of explicit measurement?
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Cecil and Reflexil Make Assembly Patching Easy
Jb Evain's Cecil is a library in the Mono project that allows developers to inspect and manipulate compiled assemblies. Sébastien has complemented its capabilities with a GUI interface called Reflexil.
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Silverlight to Not Support ArrayList
In an effort to reduce the size of the Silverlight runtime, most of the non-generic collection types will be removed. These include types once considered essential to .NET programming including ArrayList, Hashtable, and Comparer.
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The REST versus WS-* war is over!
David Chappell announces that the REST versus WS-* war is over and nobody won: a truce was declared and this is an example of 'using the right tool for the right job'.
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SaaS could get an unexpected boost from the iPhone
Software as a Service (SaaS) has had some mixed success in the last few years. If SalesForce.com is the winner then IBM, Microsoft, Google, and others view it as a major battleground. One major issue is to convince users that there is enough value in moving their core data to the control of a service to overcome a less than optimal user experience and possible access outage.
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Profiles & Extensibility Major Refactorings in Proposed Java EE 6
The Java EE 6 (JSR 316) proposal was published today. Two major themes for release are extensibility and profiles. Interface 21 CEO Rod Johnson has written a lengthy commentary on the proposal going so far as to declare his support for the JSR.