InfoQ Homepage News
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Eclipse / Sun Relationship Still Icy
Eclipse and Sun both have large gravitational pulls in the Java community. Eclipse is the largest Java IDE while Sun controls the Java language. Cooperation between the two has been limited at best in recent years and shows little sign of improving.
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Agile Testing Practices Overview
Jon Kern, one of the original authors of the Agile Manifesto, has written a good overview of Agile approach to software testing. In it he talks about mixing different kinds of tests - including manual tests - and testing techniques.
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Avoid 10 ASP.NET Pitfalls
Jeff Prosise, renowned author/trainer and co-founder of Wintellect, has written an article in the July issue of MSDN Magazine outlining 10 common pitfalls ASP.NET developers fall prey to. This article is a must-read for ASP.NET developers. Jeff's suggestions range from performance tips, to techniques to avoid obscure errors that could cost days or weeks of debugging time, to database profiling.
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Framework Performance: Ruby on Rails vs Django vs Symfony
Ruby on Rails goes head-to-head with Python's Django and PHP's Symfony frameworks in a battle of speed and stability.
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Agile Work Cheatsheets Posted
It's been said before: Agile may be simple, but it's not so easy. Mishkin Berteig contributes some one-page quick-references to jog our memories and keep us focused on delivering value.
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SOA Mission Accomplished--90 Percent Complete
A recent Aberdeen survey of over 120 IT firms indicates that nine of every ten companies are adopting or have adopted service-oriented architectures and will exit 2006 with SOA planning, design, and programming experience.
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Google Web Toolkit Continues Gaining Momentum
XML.com and IBM DeveloperWorks recently featured articles introducingweb application development using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). GWT was released at JavaOne in May of this year. Support of GWT has also recently been announced by both the IntelliJ and Netbeans Java IDE's.
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TestDriven.NET Releases Professional and Enterprise Editions
The previously-free automated unit testing add-in for Visual Studio .NET, TestDriven.NET, now charges licensing fees for its use beyond the Personal edition. Note that the Personal edition is fully-featured and does not expire.
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IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 Featureset and New TeamCity Product Announced
Jetbrains has just announced the full featureset for the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 6.0. Included are JEE, Swing, and refactoring enhancements as well as integration with their new team enviroment product TeamCity.
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Statistics on Agile Practices Problematic
Keith Ray questions the value of statistics for software processes, including Agile processes.
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ESB Roundup Part Two: Use Cases
This is the second part of InfoQ's ESB series, an exploration of Enterprise Service Bus, or ESB technologies. The focus is use cases required by companies deploying this technology, such as protocol bridging, security intermediation and service virtualization. The article references analyst commentary, survey research results and comments on part one of the ESB roundup.
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InfoQ Article: EJB 3 Essential Glossary
InfoQ is hosting an EJB 3.0 glossary of new terms and API elements introduced in EJB 3. It explains buzzwords like Inversion of Control (IoC), Configuration by Exception, POJO, POJI, Dependency Injection etc, etc. The glossary is an ongoing work in progress. Updates will continue to be made to it.
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Reflection and DynamicMethods
While most .NET developers have heard of reflection, many have not implemented reflection in their applications to its fullest potential. Essentially, reflection is the run-time examination of an object's members. One article provides sample code and a few suggested uses for reflection, including ORM and code generation, and discusses the new, faster DynamicMethods approach in .NET 2.0
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Java One Technical Sessions Slides and Audio Online
The technical sessions (but not BOFS) from the Java One 2006 conference are now online in audio + slides. Registration to the Sun Developer Network is required. The presentations also include text transcript fragments allowing you to read along with the presentation.
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Agile Topics at SD Best Practices 2006
This year's SD Best Practices conference will take place September 11-14, with the industry's top experts delivering up-to-date, relevant, practical material. The conference features over 175 classes, tutorials, case studies, roundtables, keynotes and Birds-of-a-Feather gatherings. Here is our list of over 75 sessions by or for Agile practitioners.