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The ABCs of Agile for Managers
A new article in CIO magazine spells out the ABCs of agile software development for managers.
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Using TIBCO GI to add Ajax to Struts2 Applications
Brian Walsh has a new article up describing how to transform a Struts2 CRUD application into an RIA using TIBCO General Interface. Walsh walks through changing one of the sample Struts2 applications to use some of TIBCO GI's components.
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Rails 1.2 slower than 1.1?
Stefan Kaes compared Rails 1.2 performance against 1.1 and found out 1.2 was 20% slower than 1.1 version.
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Article: Web Apps with Spring Web Flow and Terracotta for Spring
In this article, Jonas Boner and Eugene Kuleshov give an overview of Spring Web Flow and Terracotta for Spring, and after that show you how you can use these technologies together to enter a new dimension in writing stateful, conversational, scalable and highly available web applications.
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Great Expectations for JRuby 1.0
InfoQ catches up with the latest exciting developments out of the JRuby camp as they gear up for a big 1.0 release in time for JavaOne. Includes an exclusive interview with red-hot JRuby team member Ola Bini.
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TestDriven.Net Once Again Supports VS Express Editions
TestDriven.Net has restored and enhanced support for the Visual Studio Express Editions in the 2.5 beta despite tensions between Jamie Cansdale and Microsoft over license concerns.
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Expression Studio Included With MSDN Subscriptions
Due to community feedback, Microsoft has decided to make the web designer tools Expression Web and Expression Blend will be available to all MSDN Premium subscribers. Though Expression Blend won't be available until the release of Expression Studio, Expression Web is available for downloading now.
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Implementing Seaside concepts in Rails on Rails?
Why is Ruby on Rails one of the most popular web frameworks? Does Ruby on Rails introduce many new and revolutionary concepts? Or does it simply offer better implementations of old, common and well-known design practices? Does a "Rails on Seaside" concept make sense? Will Rails suffer from the effects of Bram's Law?
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Father of the Unified Process says "Enough of Processes"
When someone as well-versed with the processes people use to develop software as Ivar Jacobson says "Enough of Processes", one is bound to wonder why. Ivar Jacobson argues that the way we develop and share processes has to change.
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Enunciate: Java code-first, compiled-contract WS deployment framework
enunciate 1.0, a J2EE web service deployment framework that provides a complete development-to-deployment system for creating SOAP, REST, and JSON endpoints, was released last week. enunciate is not a web service stack like Axis2 or XFire. Rather, it uses XFire and Spring to provide a code-first development model (not in itself novel) that enforces compatibility contracts at compile time.
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Five Orcas Short Demos
Microsoft's Data blog has five short demos on Orcas and post-Orcas features for editing XML files and XSD files, debugging XSLT, and working with Entity Data Models (EDM).
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What Should be In JEE 6? Gavin King's Wish List
Gavin King, Hibernate creator and Seam project lead, has posted the first of a series of posts containing his wish-list of features for JEE 6. Among his suggestions are increased concurrency options, simplified JMS/JavaMail, and optional business interfaces for EJB's.
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March Issue of the Agile Journal Examines Top-Down Agile Adoption
The Agile Journal's March issue examined how organizations can and do adopt Agile practices in a top-down fashion. Liz Barnett wrote that top-down support within an organization is essential for any wide-spread adoption and gave six areas that we should focus on for success.
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Session Issues in Classic ASP and Windows Sever 2003 SP 2
Normally we don't cover classic ASP, but we are making an exception for a potentially mission critical bug. ASP has a serious bug in handling the Session_OnEnd event on machines running Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2.
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REST changes in Rails Edge and RADAR
A significant change in RESTful routing has been committed to Rails Edge: semicolons are no longer be used to designate custom resources, such as for the edit and new screens of your application.