InfoQ Homepage News
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Martin Fowler, Dave Thomas, Werner Vogels to speak at QCon London
Since our last announcement, the QCon conference, InfoQ and JAOO's new annual joint conference in London (March 12-16), has been making a lot of progress. The tracks have been defined, more speakers have committed to joining, and it's looking like QCon could become an important world-wide annual event.
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Virtual Earth in 2 lines of javascript
Virtual Earth can now do 3-D maps and three cities are now available: San Francisco, Seattle, Boston and Atlanta.
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Follow the Progress of JRuby on Rails
Charles Nutter has been keeping an updated page of Rails test run results with JRuby that is showing how much progress has been made towards the goal of a fully-functioning JRuby on Rails.
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Interview with Alberto Savoia on AgitarOne, a unit-testing solution
Agitar recently released AgitarOne and InfoQ sat down with Alberto Savoia, CTO, VP of Engineering, and co-founder of Agitar to talk about the new product. AgitarOne is a unit-testing product that provides exploratory testing, generates JUnit regression tests, continuous integration and test coverage reports.
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Eclipse AJDT Release Provides Support for AspectJ 1.5.3 on Eclipse 3.0-3.3
The AJDT teams recently released 4 new versions of AJDT providing numerous bug fixes, new features, and support AspectJ 1.5.3. This is the first time that the AJDT versions for Eclipse 3.0-3.3 have been released simultaneously.
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Network Computing Reader Poll: Drop the Buzzwords, Deliver the Goods
Over 700 IT managers responded to the 2007 Network Computing Readers' Survey, many of whom reported frustration with the internal strife and snake-oil salesmanship of technology vendors. Respondents recommended that vendors stop "promising capabilities that aren't there", and "address actual business problems, rather than chasing buzzwords."
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Presentation: Ted Neward demos WPF-Java & other .NET+Java integrations
In this presentation recorded at JAOO, Ted Neward goes into further depth on Java and .NET integration strategies, explaining how Microsoft Office can be a rich client over Java, demonstrating buiding a Windows Presentation Foundation GUI on top of Java POJOs, Windows Communications Foundation interop, and more.
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SOA "Most Despised Buzzword"
According to a Network Computing reader poll, "SOA" is the most despised tech buzzword. Is this just a typical sign of the hype cycle "trough of disillusionment" or something the SOA community should take seriously?
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New Tool Allows Java to Easily Adapt to Timezone Changes
Today John O'Conner blogged on Sun's new tzupdater tool which allows existing JRE installs of version 1.4 or later to be modified to reflect timezone changes. Recently JRE updates were released to account for Australian and United States timezone changes.
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Multi-core Processors: Good or Bad for Java
Two recent items on the internet have looked at the topic of multi-core processors and Java. A recent article by Randall Scarberry of JavaWorld.com looks at using the Java concurrency API to write multi-threaded algorithms. Billy Newport of IBM also recently written a blog post detailing how Java may not be well suited for multi-core processors.
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VS Orcas Specifications Posted
Twenty feature specifications for Visual Studio and .NET Framework "Orcas" are now available on MSDN. They cover areas such as the Developer Tools Platform, Visual C++, and Team Foundation Server.
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Noted Professor Decries "Macro Management"
Dr. Henry Mintzberg, an outspoken and controversial scholar in business school circles, recently decried the "heroic leadership" stereotype which undermines organizations, propagated by the press and by MBA programs that stress leadership at the expense of practical management skills. He sees a need for more "distributed leadership," whose effectiveness lies in a community itself.
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Microsoft to Enforce User Interface Guidelines
In order to promote the ribbon design as a replacement for menus and toolbars, Microsoft has decided to license the Office 2007 User Interface including the new "ribbon paradigm " via a set of guidelines. And unlike previous guidelines and standards, violating a "mandatory" clause carries real legal repercussions.
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Rails 1.2 Release Candidate Announced
The long-anticipated release of Rails 1.2 begins this week with the announcement of Release Candidate 1, with final release expected within a few weeks. InfoQ summarizes the announcement.
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MS VSTS for Database Pros Set to Enhance DBA Agility
Scott Ambler has been writing about "Agile Database" practices since 2002, but the array of supporting tools has been rather skimpy. Now, integrated "Agile DBA" tools are starting to appear. Case in point: Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) for Database Professionals, set for release at the end of this month, which supports TDD practices against the database.