InfoQ Homepage News
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Sowing Organic Change
Kevin Rutherford blogged recently on fostering change, rather than imposing it, this latter strategy being more likely to backfire. He's provided three tools useful to get the ball rolling and keep it moving.
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InfoQ Book: Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks
InfoQ has partnered with Minh T. Nguyen to bring you Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks. The book explains how to use VS.NET efficiently, including everything from editing and compiling to debugging and navigating within the VS.NET IDE. The book covers the Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, and 2005 Beta 1 releases.
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InfoQ.com Officially Launched!
InfoQ has officially launched today, having previously been in unlaunched/testing mode since May 17th. InfoQ is a new Enterprise Software Development Community serving Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile. Interest so far has been high, with over 19,249 unique visitors to the site. Today's launch presents version 0.7 of the site. Thank you to our members, sponsors, and authors!
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Watir Adds Support for Modal Dialogs
Watir is a very popular testing tool for web apps. The newest release adds support for Internet Explorer modal dialogs, which are common in enterprise applications.
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Spring+JPA to be the next popular stack?
Spring+Hibernate is called the most commonly used stack behind java web apps. Spring 2 now provides the complete EJB container contract for JPA, allowing JPA to be used under a Spring managed services layer (with all the AOP and DI richness of Spring) in any environment. Debates are already beginning about whether the next defacto stack will be EJB, Spring+Hibernate, or Spring + JPA.
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Rails Powering Online Shopping Evolution
First JadedPixel wows us with Shopify, then this week Dylan Stamat and Jonathan Siegel announce RightCart.com, a new web service that they wrote using Rails in just six weeks. Both apps are making waves in greater web universe.
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Should We Manage Both Features and Tasks?
Although it keeps people busy, managing tasks is neither interesting nor useful. Managing value created provides greater leverage and greater risk management. Jon Kern blogged last week on creating good features (rather than tasks) by focusing on value and testability. But do we sometimes need to manage tasks, too? David Anderson used the Theory of Constraints to back an unexpected answer.
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Nemerle: A Hybrid Programming Language For The .NET Platform
Nemerle is a hybrid language developed by the Computer Science Institute of the University of Wroclaw in Poland. It is a high-level statically typed language that offers functional, object-oriented, and imperative features. It has a simple C#-like syntax and a meta-programming system.
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RubyConf 2006 Call for Proposals
David Black of Ruby Central announced this week that the call for proposals for RubyConf 2006 is now open. There has been strong representation from the Agile community at this event in previous years.
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Web Beans JSR 299 approved by JCP for further development
The new Web Beans JSR 299 has been unanimously approved by the JCP executive committee for further development. Web Beans aims to integrate EJB 3 session and entity beans to be used as JSF managed beans eliminating the dual layers of web actions and EJB's common in web apps. Web Beans also defines constructs for state and workflow in the web tier.
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Ivar Jacobson Reveals Essential Unified Process (Ess UP) Vision
Ivar Jacobson, father of use cases and the Unified Process (UP) as well as one of the original "Three Amigos" of UML fame, describes his vision for a streamlined version of the UP which is published on a collection of cards instead of as HTML pages.
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Collaborative Technologies Conference, Boston, June 19-22
How much technology is really needed in the Agile world of "do the simplest thing that could possibly work"? For those needing improved technological support for their collaborative teams, the Collaborative Technologies Conference features thought leaders and technology innovators, including Google and 37 Signals, who will explore both the power of collaboration and its potential pitfalls.
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JBoss Rules 3 (Drools) is out
JBoss is timing a number of releases to coincide with next weeks JBoss world in Las Vegas. The latest is JBoss Rules 3.0, which is the new brand for the Drools rules engine project under JBoss' umbrella and support model. Drools is a Rules Engine implementation based on Charles Forgy's Rete algorithm tailored for the Java language.
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IBM Updates Rational Toolset
IBM announced today a host of new SOA tools which were launched at the Rational Software Development Conference 2006. These tools increasingly support governance through the lifecycle stages of design, development, deployment, testing and maintenance.
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Dangling the Right "Carrot" in Changing Times
For organizations heavily dependent on software development, the shift to Agile affects core aspects of the business. Eventually there will be ripples felt in the HR domain of incentives, performance and remuneration. Wharton University brings us an article on Employee Incentive Systems: Why, and When, They Are So Hard to Change. Examples are cited from Kodak, Accenture, Microsoft.