InfoQ Homepage News
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More Changes for VB on Silverlight
Silverlight is bringing a lot of changes to VB, including cross-platform support. While much of VB is going to be available in Silverlight, including VB's collection of legacy functions and LINQ, not everything will be available moving forward.
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Coverity Prevent SQS: Java Static Analysis Defect Detection
The Java static-analysis defect detection space got a new entrant this week with Coverity's release of Prevent SQS, a code analysis tool that analyzes byte code, and builds an interal map of all possible execution paths upon which interprocedural defect analysis is done to find problems that lead to runtime exceptions, security vulnerabilities, unpredictable behavior, and performance degradation.
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Interop Forms 2 - Now with Controls
The new version of Interop Forms allows .NET controls to be placed on VB 6 forms as if they were ActiveX controls.
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Interview: Per Kroll on Agility and Discipline, RUP, Distributed Development
Per Kroll is a director at Rational Software Corporation, where he's responsible for the development and management of the Rational Unified Process. In this interview, Per shares insights from his book 'Agility and Discipline', Agile practices for distributed development, how RUP is changing to support teams that want to customize it, and RUP vs. Agile.
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Jasper: ORM without Code Generators or Configuration Files
Jasper is Microsoft's new ORM project designed for rapid application development. And unlike earlier Microsoft projects, this one does not require code generators. The goal? To "make the experience of developing quick and dirty database apps one that is truly quick and clean."
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Astoria: Microsoft's RESTful Data Services
Microsoft has announced the Project Astoria at MIX '07. Astoria offers a RESTful approach to expose data as data services on the web.
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Introducing Visual Basic 10
With VB 9 slated to be released sometime this year, Microsoft is already talking about VB 10, also known as VBx. Key features include dynamic code generation like that you would expect in Lisp, Ruby, or Python. This opens up VB.Net for both Silverlight and Office.
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Presentation: Gregor Hohpe on Developing in a Service-oriented World
In this presentation, Google architect Gregor Hohpe takes a look at the architectural aspects of SOA, addressing issues such as the false sense of simplicity and the problems of established programming models.
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Article: The Challenges of Latency
In an exclusive InfoQ article, eBay architect Dan Pritchett explains why global, large-scale architectures need to address latency, and what architectural patterns can be applied to deal with it.
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The Dire Consequences of Fixed Price Projects
In a recent newsletter, Scott Ambler looked at why fixed price projects tend to overrun and often fail to solve the business problems they set out to conquer. Scott named the key problems in fixed price projects, identified the bad habits they encourage for customers and developers, and ended with a call to revisit how we fund our IT projects, offering an alternative.
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Picking an Ajax Framework
Dr. Dobbs is currently featuring a case study of the Ajax framework selection process of a development team at T. Rowe Price. The article considers GWT, Dojo, Prototype/Scriptaculous, and Yahoo UI Library.
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Scott Ambler on the role of testing & QA in Agile projects
Scott Ambler talks to a testing & QA user group explaining how agile development teams take a test-first approach and work with stakeholders to acceptance test throughout the development lifecycle. Scott argues that software is of significantly higher quality than what traditionalists produce, and tells the group that their long term employment prospects as full time testers are in jeopardy.
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OASIS WS-RM closes
The OASIS WS-RM technical committee has closed. This groups work should not be confused with OASIS WS-RX which is still going forward.
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Silverlight's New Security Model
Sliverlight 1.1 is introducing a new security model for the CLR that replaces CAS.
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A Comparison of C# to Java, Updated
In 2001 Dare Obasanjo has written one of the most comprehensive and accurate "Comparison of Microsoft's C# Programming Language to Sun Microsystems' Java Programming Language". Now he has updated his comparison in order to reflect the changes in the current versions of both languages: Microsoft C# 2.0 and Java Standard Edition 6.