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Stefan Tilkov on REST on new Parleys presentations site
At the SOA conference organized by BeJUG (Belgian Java User Group), InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov gave a presentation on REST. Synchronized audio and slides for this and other presentations are available on the new web 2.0ish online conference presentations site, parleys.com.
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Heckle Your Way to Better Tests
Like Jester, the Java program that inspired it, Heckle mutates your Ruby code, attempting to make your unit tests fail. The premise is simple: If your unit test doesn't choke on Heckle's mutated code, then you need to improve coverage.
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Opinion: Are we at risk of losing SOA in favour of Web Services?
There has been some good work in OASIS on defining an SOA Reference Model and SOA Blueprints, but so far this has not been taken up by the majority players in either SOA or ESB. Are the big vendors such as IBM and Microsoft really only interested in Web Services as far as SOA is concerned? Are we at risk of losing the bigger SOA picture in favour of Web Services? Is that such a bad thing anyway?
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InfoQ Presentation: Scrum at the BBC
In this conference talk Andrew Scotland tells how BBC's New Media division, characterized by a lot of uncertainty and emergent software process, decided to use Scrum to more effectively deliver software amidst all that change and uncertainty. Three years later - the difference is significant, and the journey was worthwhile.
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A Train-Wreck Waiting To Happen: Managed Code and the Windows Shell
The CLR has a major design flaw; each process can only have one. When you combine this with a ubiquitous process like explorer.exe, disaster can strike.
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Reflections on the Growth of Agile
There has recently been a great deal of discussion both inside and outside the agile community in which the essential question is: Has the word "agile" become meaningless?
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Reasons to choose Wicket over JSF and Spring MVC
A recent post to the Wicket mailing list details some reasons to choose Wicket over Spring MVC or JSF. Wicket is a component based web application framework.
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InfoQ Article: An Introduction to JBoss Seam 1.1
JBoss Seam is a new full-stack web application framework that unifies and integrates Ajax, JSF, EJB2, Portlets, and BPM. Seam 1.1 released last week, and InfoQ has published an introduction to Seam, explaining what Seam can do with a HelloWorld example.
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WPF as a Rich Client Technology?
WPF makes it easy to create visually impressive apps, but also has other talents which make it a compelling choice as a rich client over back-ends written in any technology such as Java, Ruby, or .NET. A new article on InfoQ compares WPF to alternatives such as Ajax/DHTML, Swing, and Flash; it will also look at some scenarios where a WPF client makes sense, using Java as the back-end example.
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Adobe Releases Flex Cookbook Online Beta
This week Adobe released an online cookbook for Flex application development tips. There also seems to be a defined path for taking the snippets available online and bundling them into an O'Reilly compilation in the future.
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Microsoft has brought .NET to the World of Robotics
Seeing parallels between the computer industry of 30 years ago and the robotics industry of today, Microsoft is determined to not be left out of the next big thing. For their initial play, Microsoft has released the Microsoft Robotics Studio.
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Google Deprecates SOAP Search API
Google has deprecated its SOAP Search API, withdrawing one of the most prominent examples of Web service usage on the Internet. The remaining AJAX Search API is only a partial replacement.
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Industry Prognosticators Look Towards 2007
Sys-Con, publishers of Java Developers Journal, recently polled a number of industry leaders on their thoughts for the software industry going into 2007.
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JRake: Build, Test, and Deploy Java applications without XML
JRake is the latest entry in build tools for Java that is based on a scripting language. JRake leverages JRuby and the Rake build tool for Ruby to make building, running tests, and deploying web applications quick and easy.
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Microsoft PDC 2007 Announced
Microsoft announces the Professional Developers Conference 2007, (PDC 2007), will be hosted in Los Angeles. PDC 2007 is a Microsoft technology futures conference focused on lead developers and software architects.