InfoQ Homepage News
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SOA Hot or Not
Jeff Schneider of MomentumSI blogs what's "Hot" and whats "Not" in SOA, and a nice response from Joe McKendrick of ZDnet. InfoQ community, get your opinions on this heard! What are you involved in in SOA that's "Hot"?
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New Article on ASP.NET ViewState Intricacies
Dave Reed has written an article on Truly Understanding ViewState that describes exactly how to plan ASP.NET control initialization and creation when working with child controls, dynamically added controls or when developing custom controls. Proper ViewState usage will keep page sizes smaller, leading to much greater performance and scalability for ASP.NET applications.
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InfoQ Article: Using Logging Seams for Legacy Code Unit Testing
Ian Roughley shows how to use logging seams to easily create unobtrusive unit tests around legacy classes, without needing to edit class logic as well as avoiding behavior changes.
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Opinion: Every Project should have an Upgrade Framework
HostedQA, JIRA, Confluence, and Jive Forums all have implemented frameworks to manage changes to db schema's and data migrations between subsequent versions of their products. Pat Lightbody proposes that all enterprise apps should include an upgrade framework and provides some best practices.
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An Open Source Ajax Shootout
InfoWorld columnist Peter Wayner recently reviewed six of the most popular open source Ajax toolkits. He was curious if they were enterprise ready in comparison to commercial products such Backbase, JackBe, and Tibco's General Interface. The six open source projects covered were selected because each has a high-profile in the developer community and support of one or more stable organizations.
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Mary and Tom Poppendieck Discuss Their Next Book
Bob Payne interviewed Mary and Tom Poppendieck at Agile2006 about their next Lean book, which focuses even more on software than the last. Mary summarizes it as "So you think Agile is a good idea: now what?" saying it will help people get started with Lean, going beyond the recipes of the first book to provide practical information and case studies to help teams do their own process experiments.
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Microsoft Releases MSDN Library as Free Download
Microsoft has released the MSDN Library as a free public download. The library was previously only available to MSDN subscribers, though most of the information was already available through the MSDN website. The Library is current as of May 2006, and will be updated with future versions for free download.
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IBM Buys Insurance Focused Webify
Big Blue snaps up Insurance focused SOA vendor Webify. Both IBM and Webify were at the center of a significant SOA outsourcing project with Fireman's Fund Insurance. Terms were not disclosed.
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Leveraging the Wisdom of Project Newcomers
Experienced newcomers can't be onboarded like programmers just out of school. The experienced professional will have specific but difficult-to-anticipate gaps that will impede their performance. In addition, this provides a great opportunity to get a fresh but experienced feedback on your processes. Gannthead.com offers some pointers wrapped in three fictional Dr. Phil episodes... (really?)
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O'Reilly: Ruby Book Sales Surpass Perl
Tim O'Reilly reports that Ruby book sales have surpassed those of Perl for the first time this quarter.
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Qt for Java Preview Released
TrollTech has released a preview of their popular Qt UI toolkit for Java 5.0 based on Qt version 4.1.3. The product named Jambi includes most of the core Qt modules such as Core, GUI, OpenGL and SQL.
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Microsoft Counting On Scrum and XP
When Microsoft launched SQL Server 2005 last fall, ending a five-year wait for major revisions, Steve Ballmer acknowledged "It's been a bit long in the making, we're committed to a much closer cycle time."eWeek reports that they will do this using agile development methodologies, such as XP and Scrum. Yet they won't mandate methodology, stressing product quality instead to encourage improvement
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SOA Helps Secure Your Retirement
Pension Benefit Guarany Corporation, a federal corporation insuring pensions of 44.1 million American workers has entered into a 6$ Million dollar contract to develop an SOA.
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CaptainHook, Free .NET Hook Manager For Subversion Released
Veloc-it has built a new plugin (hook) framework in .NET, CaptainHook, for those using the Subversion version control system. Subversion "hooks" are scripts that are triggered when a particular version control event happens, such as committing a set of changes. These hooks execute by defeault as perl scripts, but CaptainHook allows a .NET application to be run for more complex processing needs.
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Reviews Mixed on Google's New Project Hosting Service
Last week Google announced a new hosting service for open-source projects. Developer comments around the web have been mixed. Some developers have been impressed with the service while others feel underwhelmed.