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Unit Testing Tips from Google
The QA engineers at Google share their unit testing advice in an ongoing series titled "Testing on the Toilet." The latest installment tackles a common problem: how can the unit tests themselves be refactored without accidentally invalidating the tests?
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Google SoC Series: ANTLR v3 Ruby Parser
Writing a Ruby parser is a challenging task, yet the XRuby team wrote one from scratch. A Google Summer of Code project will update the current parser to use ANTLR v3, and plans to produce a Ruby parser in Ruby in the process. InfoQ caught up with Wang Haofei to ask about the problems in parsing Ruby and the plans for the project.
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Enter the Internet Service Bus
On April 24th Microsoft released the BizTalk Services CTP, taking the idea of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) as as a means of discovering, connecting and federating services a step further and elevating it to the Internet Service Bus (ISB).
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VS Express Editions Orcas CTP Available
Along with the full version of Visual Studio Orcas in beta, the free versions that make up the Visual Studio Express line are now available.
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Presentation: Windows Presentation Foundation: The Future of Windows
Windows Presentation Foundation is a fundamental shift from how interactive applications have previously worked in Windows. In this session, Ian Griffiths shows key features of WPF such as XAML, composition, layout, animation, and data binding. Moreover, we will examine the need for WPF, showing both how and why it differs so radically from the classic Win32 approach.
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Agile Tools Usefulness Debated
The Agile Journal's April issue examined how tools are being used in Agile projects. There are articles that are pro-tools, anti-tools, and a debate between Ron Jeffries and Ryan Martens.
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DWR 2.0 Adds Reverse Ajax, Script Scope, and Annotation Support
The DWR team has released version 2.0. Major feature additions include support for reverse Ajax allowing server state to be pushed to browser and Java 5 annotations.
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Presentation: WebWork (Struts 2) In Action
Patrick Lightbody overviews WebWork and the Struts merger, comparing to other web frameworks and explaining how to achieve rapid development with WebWork/Struts 2.
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Sun demonstrates WS-AT interoperability with Microsoft
Sun's latest Project Tango release includes WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-Coordination support. They also have demonstrated interoperability .NET 3.0 clients.
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Adobe Announces Open Source Roadmap for Flex
Continuing their dive into open source, Adobe has announced a road map for the transition of Flex to open source. Last fall Adobe contributed source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation to create the Tamarin project.
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Live From Redmond Coverage: LINQ Overview
Kit George presented the second installment of the live Orcas webcasts. Highlights include LINQ syntax and features.
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Spring Web Flow Enhances JSF Navigation and State
In a new article Interface21's Keith Donald details how Spring Web Flow integrates with JSF to provide a better model for implementing navigation logic and managing application state.
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JRuby: Almost Ready for Primetime?
JRuby 0.9.9 is now out in the wild and has been declared “ready for prime time”. Ola Bini goes as far as to say: “JRuby is ready for prime time. Application developers should try their applications on JRuby NOW” InfoQ's newest Ruby reporter, Sam Aaron, investigates.
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Java Web Frameworks Increase Support for Auto-Reload
Java web frameworks are increasingly adopting the ability to change portions of a web application and see the results immediately without restarting the server. This capability reduces the cost of the compile-build-test cycle, and helps to compete with the features of dynamic-language web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or TurboGears.
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Google SoC Series: Web-based Rails Debugger
Rails exception stack traces in the browser are a common sight for Rails developers (and sometimes users). A Google Summer of Code project aims to speed up Rails debugging by giving the developer a web-based, interactive shell to investigate the system after an exception happened. InfoQ caught up with Eugen Minciu, the developer of the project, to see what he's planning.