InfoQ Homepage News
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ClickOnce Publishing and Vista
ClickOnce Publishing is one of the best ways to distribute rich client applications based on the .NET framework. But there are some limitations in IIS 7 that cause it to break. Brian Noyes explains how to work around these limitations.
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Aptana Takes Over Development of RadRails
The company behind the popular Eclipse-based AJAX IDE Aptana announce that they are taking over development and sponsorship of RadRails, a move that may yet save the project from its current state of neglect.
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Factories 201 Series - Building Software Factories
Edward Bakker and Jezz Santos have been writing about Software Factories, providing a complete set of concise guidelines. The Microsoft Software Factories and DSL initiatives have caused many discussions. Today, Microsoft provides tools such as the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX), the Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT), and the Domain-Specific Language Tools (DSL Tools).
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InfoQ Presentation: Scott Ambler on Database Refactoring
A sound code base is not sufficient to deliver quality software that evolves as user needs change. Some teams, ready to evolve their code, find themselves hamstrung by a hard-to-change database design. Scott Ambler, in this Agile2006 video, talked about how DBAs can use Agile's iterative and incremental approach to help make teams responsive to changing customer needs.
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QCon London next week - Registration Still Open, Day Passes Available
QCon is next week and over 500 people are registered to attend. It's not too late to register! For those who can't make it to the full 3 day conference, there are a few ways you can get a more limited taste of the conference, such as attending a one-day tutorial, buying a day pass to the conference.
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Visual Studio Orcas Round-Up
InfoQ has assembled a summary of the features included in the March CTP of Visual Studio Orcas. The Orcas CTP, which is expected to be released as VS 2007, can be downloaded from MSDN.
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CIO JP Rangaswami on open source in the enterprise & the future of information
In this InfoQ exclusive, CIO JP Rangsawami explains how open source became a corporate IT strategy at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and why CIOs of major enterprises should consider open source for software development initiatives. JP also explains his vision of four pillars of the new world if information: Syndication, Search, Fulfillment, and Collaboration/Conversation.
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Guice: Fast and Light Dependency Injection Container
Guice is a new open-source Dependency Injection framework for Java 5 that is closing in on a 1.0 release. Guice is a very annotation-driven, lightweight framework that provides an alternative to Spring, for a certain set of features.
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Become a Rails Ninja with IRB Hacks
For all you Rails developers tapping your fingers waiting for your pages to load so that your model changes appear - help is at hand in the form of the irb (interactive ruby) console - where you can interact with your rails app from a prompt.
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Improving Quality with "Developer Testing Masters"
Alberto Savoia of Agitar Software recently suggested the creation of a new position - Developer Testing Master - to bridge the gap between developers and testers.
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Oracle Contributes TopLink ORM Open Source to Eclipse
Oracle is contributing the commercial TopLink ORM open source to Eclipse. Going forward, all production features of TopLink will be available in EclipseLink and Oracle's commercially supported TopLink will only contain an additional thin proprietary integration code layer necessary for some Oracle AppServer and SOA Suite features. Oracle is also becoming an Eclipse Strategic Developer.
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Interview: Josh Holmes on ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Role Providers
ASP.NET authentication and authorization is essentially a solved problem in ASP.NET 2.0 according to .NET guru Josh Holmes. While the built in authorization providers offer 90% coverage, Josh also discusses when you should utilize a custom provider. Join Josh for ASP.NET tips and tricks in this interview done by David Totzke at VSLive Toronto.
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Darwin and Service Reuse: Competition is Good
Service reuse is something that many SOA proponents say is a benefit. However, proponents of object-orientation techniques said the same thing and that didn't materialize. Is introducing competition in the service arena a way of getting improvements in reuse?
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Eclipse RIA Tools Updated
The Eclipse Foundation has announced two project milestones aimed at improving Rich Internet Application development, the Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) has hit milestone two with support for JFace dialogs and the Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) has added support for OS X.
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IONA buys C24 adding better data integration features to Artix ESB
IONA has acquired C24. Both IONA's Artix ESB and C24's IO are designed to be high-performance, distributed end-point integration solutions, but IO's focus on mapping arbitrarily complex data integration formats (including a focus on financial services standards) via high-performance POJO framework adds a complementary solution to IONA's Artix ESB.