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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.
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Web Services Standards Overview Poster
innoQ has released a new version of their Web Services Standards Overview poster, covering more than 60 specifications and standards.
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Using Spring with GWT and J2S
Google Web Toolkit and Java2Script Pacemaker (J2S) are two Java to JavaScript compilers that enable rich internet applications to be written in Java with JavaScript generated. Recent articles describe how to integrate these tools with Spring.
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Deny Execute on Assembly Doesn't
According to Microsoft's SQL Programmability & API Development Team Blog, the Execute permission for CLR assemblies actually has no effect. To reduce confusion over this, the ability to grant execute permissions to assemblies has be removed from SQL Server 2005 SP 2.
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Presentation: Maintaining Java Apps in Production Environments
Alexandre Rafalovitch delivers an organized overview of the tools and techniques that help with resolving problems that arise in real production environments. The presentation places emphasis on free and open source tools capable of being useful out of the box, without extensive configuration. Common problems are discussed, along with methods of rapid analysis and root cause determination.