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Deploy Your Production Rails Applications at the Engine Yard
Engine Yard is the first Rails application deployment service that combines serious and scalable infrastructure with easy management at an affordable price.
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InfoQ Article:Introduction to BackgrounDRb
As the problem domain of your Rails applications expands, you may need to run computationally intensive or long running background tasks. How can you run these long background tasks without your web server timing out? And how do you display the progress to your users?
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How many production sites run JSF?
Addressing questions about JSF's adoption in the industry, JSF co-spec lead Roger Kitain has published a list of production sites using JSF, and is encouraging end users to you also add their own sites to the list, which currently includes a number of large deployments.
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Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Book Series Announced
Addison Wesley has just announced its new Professional Ruby book series, consisting of three books and three shorter PDF downloads that will be coming in the next 6 months and into 2007. InfoQ's own Ruby editor Obie Fernandez is the series editor as well as one of the authors.
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WinFS Officially Dropped
On the WinFS team blog on Friday, Quentin Clark blogged that WinFS, the new relational filestore would no longer be shipped as a separate product, instead, parts of it will make it into ADO.NET (entities) and SQL Server. The community is calling thea nnouncement spin and proclaiming that WinFS is dead.
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Personal Retrospective: How Did I Do?
Nynke Andering gives us an inside view of a process of self-retrospective, which she uses after a consulting engagement. She shares not only her questions, but her answers, in four categories: Collaboration, Learning, Consulting, Responsibility.
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InfoQ Article: Deploying Java Apps on Fedora Core
GCJ is a portable, optimizing, ahead-of-time Java compiler. Fedora Core 4 was the first release to include a lot of Java code compiled with GCJ. This article by GCJ lead Tom Tromey explains the status of the GCJ project and how to use gcj to compile native RPMs on RedHat Fedora Core.
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How Should We Teach Design Patterns?
Design patterns are a key to productive "refactoring", an Agile practice that keeps applications stable and maintainable, and a central aspect of Agile methodologies like XP. The 5th "Killer Examples" for Design Patterns and Objects workshop will take place at OOPSLA2006 in October, and will be looking at how to teach design patterns - apparently existing materials can be challenging for novices.
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New Testing Tools Released
June has seen the release of CoView 2.0, an Eclipse plugin to assist with test coverage; Haven 1.2, for automated acceptance testing; and the new Pulse continuous integration server.
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"Agile Practice" Patterns Wiki is Up
At XP2006, Amr Elssamadisy announced a new wiki site for collecting Agile Practice Patterns. Well, it's up and ready to go, already loaded with patterns from ChiliPlop 2006 and XP 2006 conferences.
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jMatter: Naked Objects with Swing, Hibernate, and Web Start
The jMatter framework, Eitan Suez' modern implementation of the Naked Objects Pattern using Swing, Hibernate, and deployed with Java WebStart, has been open-sourced this week. jMatter takes a domain model and then auto-produces 2-tier workgroup apps (Swing front-ends that talk to rdbms back-ends) intended to be used in a LAN or VPN environment.
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Real World Apps with Atlas Codecamp Video Published
Wrox author Wally McClure, was a featured speaker at Atlanta Code Camp on May 13, 2006, and presented a 43-minute, on-screen demo of building an Atlas application, that is now available for viewing. The video gives a good introduction of what is possible with Atlas.
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DataDirect XQuery 2.0 Released; W3C XQuery Specs Updated
DataDirect has released XQuery 2.0, a Java implementation of the XML query and transformation language (XQuery) API for Java (XQJ) that allows the querying of combinations of RDBMS, XML, EDI, CSV, and other sources and returns the results as XML. On June 8th, new versions of the XQuery and related W3C specs were submitted, currently in Candidate Recommendation stage.
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Rails LiveCD Linux Distro Announced
Brian Ketelsen announced the initial release of the new Ruby on Rails LiveCD Linux Distribution. The RailsLiveCD includes all the software needed to run Ruby on Rails development. You can set your computer to boot first from CD and try this Ruby on Rails specific distribution of Linux without altering your computer at all.
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Microsoft, REST, and Robots
Microsoft's merging of REST principles with Web services in a particular application domain may be an exception or another sign of a change in strategy.