InfoQ Homepage News
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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.
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InfoQ Article: Making AspectJ development easier with AJDT
Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) can be used to solve a number of today's application requirements but can also be intimidating for developers when getting started. A new article by Matt Chapman, AJDT Project Lead, shows how AOP development with the popular AspectJ library can be made easier using the Eclipse AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT) plugin.
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The wide ranging impact of the XML Paper Specification
XML Paper Specification, or XPS, is a new XML-based format for creating formatted documents. Seen as a direct competitor to Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF), it is one of the more controversial features in Windows Vista. Because it touches so much of the Windows infrastructure, it is expected to affect all users in one way or another.
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Presentation: Joshua Bloch on Good API Design
A well-written API can be a great asset to the organization that wrote it and to all that use it. Given the importance of good API design, surprisingly little has been written on the subject. In this talk (recorded at Javapolis), Java library designer Joshua Bloch teaches how to design good APIs, with many examples of what good and bad APIs look like.
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Rob Relyea weighs in on XBAP vs. ActiveX
In response to a question posed on Anne Zelenka's blog posting on the .NET 3.0 Framework launch, Rob Relyea weighs in on the comparison of XBAP to ActiveX that is being thrown around the .NET community.
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InfoQ Article: Incorporating Enterprise Data into SOA
In this article Boris Lublinsky outlines the complexities of dealing with the enterprise data and discuss several design patterns for SOA implementations.
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Scrum in Five Minutes - Executive Summary
In his latest blog entry, Jeff Sutherland introduces an exceptionally concise overview of the Scrum development process, which may be useful for communicating with management, courtesy of Swedish consulting firm Softhouse.
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S Stands for Simple
With a very funny blog post that takes a critical look at the history of SOAP, written in the form of a dialogue between a Web services expert and a hypothetical developer, Pete Lacey has started an amazing chain of postings.
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JBoss Seam 1.1 Indepth: An Interview with Gavin King
Seam 1.1 CR1 has just released, with the full GA coming within a couple of weeks. Major new changes include the ability to run SEAM without EJB making it useable in any appserver and even Tomcat, a new concurrency model, ICEFaces/Ajax4JSF integration, and Rails-like code generation/command line tools. InfoQ spoke to Seam creator Gavin King about the release.
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Joe Duffy on Concurrency
With dual and quad-core CPUs finding their way onto personal computers and 32-core processors predicted in the next 3 to 5 years, concurrency is becoming a major concern for developers. Joe Duffy, author of Professional .NET Framework 2.0 and the upcoming Concurrent Programming on Windows presents his opinions and recommendations for creating reusable, concurrent libraries in .NET.