InfoQ Homepage News
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Presentation: NET Windows Forms Tips and Tricks
Ken Getz demonstrates several different techniques you can use when building Windows applications (recorded at DevLink), including: Creating owner-drawn controls, binding controls to just about anything, exposing protected information with inheritance, exposing new control behavior using inheritance, handling thread synchronization with Windows forms, and creating your own property grid.
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VB Breaks Its Runtime Chains
In order to support more platforms, Visual Basic 9 will have to the option to exclude the VB Runtime.
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IronRuby Release Planned for OSCON
According to John Lam, the first public cut of IronRuby is slated to be released at OSCON in July.
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Google Gears: Industry Reactions The Day After
As part of their developer days activities this week Google announced a new offline web application API Google Gears.
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Google Developer Day 2007
The Google Developer Day 2007 took place in 10 cities spanning the globe beginning in Sydney, Australia and ending in Mountain View, California. This is a report on some of the sessions at the event in Hamburg, Germany, on May 31, 2007.
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Deploying Rich Client Applications with Firefox
Firefox now supports ClickOnce deployment for .NET applications via an add-on by James Dobson.
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Interview and Book Excerpt: RESTful Web Services
InfoQ publishes a chapter from "RESTful Web Services" by Richardson and Ruby; in an accompanying interview, the authors explain their motivations and REST as an alternative to SOAP/WSDL Web services.
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Google SoC Series: Rubyland: Extending Desktop Applications with Ruby
We continue our Ruby Google Summer of Code (SoC) series with Rubyland. This tool associates events from the OS or applications with Ruby scripts, making desktop automation very easy. We caught up with Scott Ostler to chat about the details behind Rubyland.
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FiveRuns: First Production Rails Management Suite
Despite Rails popularity, no professional suite existed yet to monitor Rails apps end to end. FiveRuns announced the availability of its solution at RailsConf07.
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Casestudy: Composite Application Development at Safeco
A case study about how motor vehicle insurance records company Safeco used SOA approahes, SCA, BPEL, and composite application approaches to reuse legacy code, enable runtime modifiability thanks to decoupling, Java and .NET interoperability, and the ability to deliver a complex solution integrating over 5 systems in less than 8 weeks with a small team.
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Rod Johnson: Are we there yet?
We've come a long way from the first versions of J2EE. We've learned to avoid invasive programming models, we've developed a rich set of frameworks and APIs, we know how to develop applications based around simple objects. Are we there yet? Most of us would answer no to that question. If we're not there yet, then where are we headed next? Spring founder Rod Johnson explores this issue.
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Promising Your Way to Agility
In Harvard Business Online this week, Donald L Sull and Charles Spinosa wrote about the practice Promise Based Management - using promised commitments in the organisation to enable organisational agiity, encourage entrepreneurship and stimulate collaboration.
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Is REST Winning?
The topic of REST as an alternative for integration has been debated on InfoQ many times before. Recent news suggest REST is now gaining mind share among analysts and vendors, with some seeing REST as "the next big thing".
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Two New Microsoft Compilers Written in VB
Microsoft is planning on releasing two new compilers, both of which are written in VB. One will be for Visual Basic 10, the other for the SilverLight's implementation of JavaScript.
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GWT 1.4 RC Provides Faster Load Times, Widget Enhancements, and Compiler Optimizations
Google's Bruce Johnson has announced the availability of GWT 1.4 RC. The release features a 10-20% size reduction in complied Javascript, 33% faster module load times, and a new ImageBundle optimization feature.