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QCon Schedule Posted: Europe has a New Major Software Conference
The schedule for QCon London has been posted spanning 5 days with three full conference days and 2 tutorial days featuring speakers such as Martin Fowler, Dave Thomas, Gavin King, Werner Vogels, Rod Johnson, Erik Meijer, and 50 others. Tracks span Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Agile, Investment banking IT, Architecture, Usability, and case studies on eBay and other major software deployments.
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A Look at OSGi Services in Respect to Spring
Noted OSGi expert Peter Kriens has written a summary of a recent discussion on the Spring-OSGi mailing list related to how OSGi services are handled by Spring. Throwing OSGi services into the IOC mix creates a number of considerations that Spring alone does not have.
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WS-MTOM Policy submitted to W3C
MTOM has quickly become an important component within the Web Services developers arsenal, offering the composability of base64 with the transport efficiency of SOAP with attachments. But unfortunately it wasn't tied into the rest of the Web Services architecture: there was no standard way for services to advertise that they were "MTOM ready". Until today that is.
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The Roots of C# 3.0: F# and C-Omega
Tomas Petricek talks about C# 3.0 and the languages that led to many of its new features. The two languages that most inspired C# 3.0, F# and C-Omega, are discussed in detail along with how the features changed as they moved from the research languages to C#.
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Feature Specifications for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework
Last week Microsoft released the feature specifications for the .NET Framework codenamed "Orcas" and the next version of Visual Studio. Among the more notable additions comes multi-targeting across versions of the .NET Framework, a feature that was noticeably absent from Visual Studio 2005.
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Forrester creates new acronym: IC-BPMS
The latest Forrester report on SOA talks about the convergence of SOA and BPM. In it, the authors indicate that the term integration suite is becoming obsolete as it is replaced by integration-centric business process management suite (IC-BPMS). Does the industry need this new categorization, or is it another SOA 2.0.
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Four Ways to Ajax Enable a Java EE Application
Sun's Developer Network posted a series of four articles late last year on different ways to add Ajax to a Java EE application. Each article covers a different way of adding in Ajax, including do-it-yourself, using Dojo, JSF components, and JSF phase listeners.
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Debating the Merits of Pair Programming
Mike Arace writes about his negative early impressions of pair programming. Are the benefits of pair programming worth the costs?
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Tibco Announces Sponsorship of DWR
TIBCO Software, Inc. which open sourced their General Interface Ajax Toolkit last year, has announced that they will be sponsoring Joe Walker's development of the popular DWR Java library for writing Ajax applications.
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F#: Two Remarkable Years
The functional programming language F# was first announced by Don Syme of Microsoft Research in 2005. Two years after its release, it has already made significant progress towards becoming mainstream. One of its most noteworthy achievements is that it was used by the DOE Joint Genome Institute to create Darren Platt calls "the fastest genome assembly viewer I've ever seen".
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Presentation: Distributed Caching Essential Lessons
Cameron Purdy presents on improving performance and scalability of applications through the use of caching to reduce load on the database teir and & clustered caching to provide transparent fail-over by reliably sharing live data among clustered JVMs.
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eXoweb Portal and ECM 2.0 Moving towards WebOS
The eXo Platform recently announced new versions of their Portal and ECM products at JavaPolis. InfoQ sat down with Benjamin Mestrallet of eXo Platform to talk about the new products. eXo is targetting the products to simulate a web operating system that fits enterprise needs.
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Mono Migration Analyzer
Can I run my application on Mono? For developers considering writing cross-platform .NET applications, this is an important question. With the Mono Migration Analyzer, it can be answered.
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Agile Alliance's Agile Development Magazine is Out
For over five years the Agile Alliance has applied various strategies to encourage and support Agile Software Development teams and projects. Recently, they freshened up their members-only quarterly publication called "Agile Development Magazine" and the Winter 2007 edition once again displays the diversity and expertise that characterizes this community.
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InfoQ Article: Transitioning to Agile, Attitude Counts
When transitioning to agile, success requires a true change in behavior and outlook. Daffyd Rees shares advice on "Cultivating Agile Attitudes" in this excerpt from the Agile Alliance's Agile Development Journal, including "Growing Agile Developers," "Creating Agile Coaches," and "Weeding out Hidden Problems."