InfoQ Homepage News
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InfoQ Book: Scrum and XP from the Trenches
Henrik Kniberg last year published wildly popular paper 'Scrum and XP from the trenches' in which he chronicled in pictures and text how his 40 person development team implemented parts of Scrum/XP over a one year period. Henrik has updated his work and published a new version of it as a full book with InfoQ.com.
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Eclipse Releases New Versions of 21 Open Source Projects
The Eclipse Foundation has released its annual coordinated project release, named Europa for 2007. Europa features 21 projects including new versions of the core Eclipse IDE, BIRT, EMF, and the Web Tools Platform.
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JMX the Ruby way with jmx4r
Monitoring JVMs just became easier with jmx4r, a library that allows to easily access JMX MBeans with JRuby. If used from jirb, the interactive Ruby shell, this even allows to automate bulk changes or queries.
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ColdFusion Steals Microsoft's Update Panel
According to Vince Bonfanti, the developers of BlueDragon have developed a Cold Fusion version of the Update Panel by leveraging Microsoft's AJAX client-side library. Like the ASP.NET version, developers simply need to wrap part of their code in special tags to enable partial page rendering.
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Delphi to Finally Support .NET 2.0
In a roadmap posted on the CodeGear site, it has been announced that Delphi.NET will be upgraded to the .NET 2.0 framework. This is a major step for the platform that until recently was thought abandoned.
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Apache Derby Releases 10.3 Beta and Gains Experimental Hot Standby Replication
The Apache Derby project has made a beta available of the upcoming 10.3 release. The 10.3 release includes security enhancements, language-based ordering, other features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements. Egil Sørensen, a student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, has also submitted his MS thesis work to add hot standby replication functionality to Derby.
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Presentation: Tim Lister on Agile Leadership
In this presentation, recorded at the the APLN summit last year, leadership guru Tim Lister explains the principles of Agile Project Leadership in the framework of the Agile Declaration of Interdependence.
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The Legal Boundaries Of Agile
Adopting Agile practices requires a shift in the organisation on many different levels, but can making such a change lead to serious trouble?
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IBM Announces Info 2.0
IBM announces a new initiative, Info 2.0, to help bring value to Web 2.0. According to IBM: Info 2.0 is a technology (or information fabric layer) for simplified integration of data and content via Information Mashups.
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Article: Dynamic Routing Using Spring and AOP
Vigil Bose shows how a business transaction can trigger business events dynamically for subsystem processing. The examples shown in this article uses Spring framework 2.0 and Spring AOP effectively to decouple the business service from the subsystem processing functionality.
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Seam 2.0 Beta Adds Groovy and Experimental GWT Support
Three months after the release of Seam 1.2.1, Seam 2.0 has been released as beta. Major enhancements have been made to Seam Asynchronicity, including Quartz integration. Seam components may also now be written in Groovy.
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Innov8: BPM/SOA video game simulator in the works at IBM
IBM has been working on Innov8, a 3D video game SOA/BPM simulator. At the moment only a demo and screen shots are available, and the game is set to be available in September. The game aims to teach an introductory level understanding of BPM enabled by SOA, including the typical steps of a BPM project and real world experiences of IBM's expert BPM practitioners.
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Spring IDE 2.0 Adds Web Flow and AOP Development Tools
Version 2.0 of Spring IDE was released today. This release includes support for Spring Web Flow and Spring AOP development tools. InfoQ took the opportunity to speak with Christian Dupuis, Spring IDE co-lead, in order to learn more about this release.
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Presentation: Justin Smith on CLR Internals
Justin Smith, Technical Evangelist for Windows Communication Foundation at Microsoft, delivered this devLink presentation on the .NET CLR Internals. Justin begins with an overview of the memory management model and then focuses different areas of the CLR and primarily the Garbage Collector.
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Steve Yegge Ports Rails to Javascript/Rhino
At Foo Camp this past weekend, Steve Yegge of Google gave a talk called "Google Rails Clone" where, as John Lam reports, he talked about his experience porting Ruby on Rails to Javascript at Google. InfoQ summarized the community reaction and took the opportunity to speak with Steve Yegge, who was kind enough to answer some questions.