InfoQ Homepage News
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XNA Game Studio Express Releases
XNA Game Studio Express was released early this morning. Now developers can create games for the Xbox 360 and play them in the same day on their own console.
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Performance Goals For Agile Teams
Inspired by Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith's book The Wisdom of Teams, Mishkin Berteig looks at the importance of performance goals for driving a team towards self-organization and accountability.
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The Spring.NET team announces Spring.NET 1.1 Preview 3
The Spring.NET team announced Preview 3 of their Spring.NET 1.1 release with support for Dependency Injection in ASP.NET, ADO.NET data access, and numerous bug fixes.
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FioranoMQ Service Pack 3 released claiming 20% performance improvement
FioranoMQ Service Pack 3 was released today, offering significant performance improvements and increased robustness via improved diagnostics and JMS APIs for server monitoring.
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Rod Johnson: 2006 the year Spring became Ubiquitous
Rod Johnson kicked off the opening keynote of The Spring Experience conference declaring that 2006 was year Spring became ubiquitous. Rod cited a number of notable large scale Spring deployments, and also reviewed the events that drove Spring adoption in 2006.
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IPC Pipes Introduced to the .NET Framework
Hidden in the October CTP for Orcas, developers will find a new addition to the .NET Framework. The IPC mechanism called pipes has been introduced to managed code. The next version of the framework will support both anonymous pipes and named pipes.
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DWR 2.0 Release Candidate 1 now available
DWR 2.0 RC1 was released today by Joe Walker, featuring a JavaScript Proxy API, Reverse Ajax, and Security enhancements. DWR, billed as "Easy Ajax for Java", is a library that allows for quick development of Ajax applications by exposing methods on Java objects to the client.
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Visual Studio for Database Professionals Released
Microsoft has developed what they call "tools for building SQL databases in a managed project environment with support for versioning, deployment, unit testing, refactoring, and off-line SQL development." These tools, released under the name Visual Studio for Database Professionals, claim to offer a way to develop databases in the same off-line fashion as traditional applications.
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Wazaabi 1.0 XUL Interpreter for Eclipse RCP Apps Released
Wazaabi, a set of Eclipse plugins providing a XUL interpreter so Eclipse RCP applications can be built with XUL described GUIs, has released version 1.0.
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Springy Brings JRuby Power to Spring Configuration
Last week's coverage of RSpec on Ruby included the thought that JRuby was poised to start making waves by providing new, Ruby influenced tools to Java developers. Springy, a JRuby configuration tool for Spring, is on the leading edge of those tools.
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Reading List: Agility and Discipline Made Easy
It's always interesting to check out what's at the top of your colleagues' reading pile... This week, it's a selection from the reading list of InfoQ's architect and co-founder, Alexander Popescu. Alex thought so much of this book, he recommends it to all team participants.
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Rubinius Surges Ahead
Geoff Grosenbach, host of the Ruby on Rails podcast and the producer of the Peepcode series of instructional videos, announced that he is backing development of the Rubinius Project to the tune of 1000 USD and encouraged the community to donate more towards its development.
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Microsoft Announces Expression Studio
Microsoft yesterday announced Expression Studio targeted at designers or creative professionals. The Expression family of tools generate XAML which is easily consumed within Visual Studio enhancing the interaction between software designers and developers.
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InfoQ Interview: Stefan Tilkov on SOA
In this interview, Stefan Tilkov talks about his views about SOA, including the definition and role of SOA in general, different styles of implementing it, its applications in the real world, and the role of ESBs. Stefan consults on SOA with the Fortune 1000 and has very practical views on the matter.
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ASMX or WCF Web Services?
Since version 1, ASP.NET has supported web services via the ASMX files. With .NET 3.0 and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), you have an entirely new way to expose and consume web services. So do you convert to WCF or leave everything as ASMX? Thom Robbins' answer is to just do both.