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  • Book Excerpt and Interview: Rails for .NET Developers

    Today InfoQ published a sample chapter from Rails for .NET Developers, a book written by Jeff Cohen and Brian Eng. The goal of the book is to help guide .NET developers to take advantage of Ruby on Rails.

  • Web Beans (JSR-299): Q&A with Specification Lead Gavin King

    An ambitious and key part of Java EE 6, the Web Beans specification spans JSF/EJB integration, context management, dependency injection and AOP. The specification is currently in public review and the review period has been extended into 2009. An Alpha build is also available. InfoQ talks to Gavin King to find out more about the state of play of the specification and progress to date.

  • Ruby on Rails gets down to the Metal

    The Ruby on Rails team has been busy moving Rails to the next level with the adoption of Rack. The implementation of Rack allows developers to use many available middleware pieces in their applications. This addition has allowed the Rails team to create Rails Metal, a wrapper around the generic Rack middleware which sits in front of a Rails request with access to Rails sessions.

  • CSLA .NET 3.6 Supports Silverlight 2.0

    The Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture for .NET (CSLA .NET) version 3.6 has been released including support for Microsoft Silverlight 2.0. CSLA .NET is a .NET software development framework which helps one to “build a powerful, maintainable business logic layer for Windows, Web, service-oriented and workflow applications”.

  • Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller: Opinions for ASP.NET MVC Developers

    ASP.NET MVC is still very much a work in progress and there is still plenty of room for determining the best way to use it or even ways to change it before the final 1.0 release. Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller present some rather stringent guidelines based on their experience with Ruby on Rails.

  • SharePoint Development Improves in Visual Studio 2010

    Visual Studio 2010 will support tighter integration with the SharePoint development process. The focus of the tooling is to automate tedious tasks, enhance the debugging experience, and provide a GUI surface for visually exploring deployment and feature packaging.

  • Rails 2.2 Released: A Glance at New Features

    After two release candidates, Rails 2.2 has been released. We take a look at some of the major new features and improvements.

  • Debunking Common Myths About ColdFusion

    ColdFusion has been around for quite some time — since 1995 — and like any technology with a bit of age behind it, quite a few misconceptions exist about the platform and its capabilities. This contributed article addresses some of the common myths around CF.

  • Smooth HTTP Caching With Rack::Cache

    The ways to cache a web application are numerous and often complex. Apart from the very basic page caching, Rails 2.2 introduced conditional GET through the use of HTTP headers: last_modified and etag. Following most of the internet standard caching section of RFC2616, Ryan Tomayko released Rack::Cache.

  • Merb Roundup: Merb 1.0, EngineYard Will Offer Merb Support

    Merb 1.0 has been released. Some last minute changes included improved JRuby and Windows support (action arguments support under JRuby). Also: EngineYard announced support for Merb.

  • JackBe Offers Free Developer Edition of Presto Mashup Platform

    JackBe, an enterprise mashup software provider, announced last week the availability of free Developer Edition of Presto Enterprise Mashup Platform. This is a community version of Presto Enterprise Mashup software which can be used to create and publish the mashup components. The product suite also includes a Mashup Server, An Eclipse-based Mashup Studio IDE and Mashup Composers.

  • Restlet 1.1.0: Improved Flexibility and Specification Support

    Restlet 1.1.0 has been released with a number of improvements, including support for the JAX-RS RESTful web-services specification, the WADL specification, Grizzly NIO connectors, as well as several other new features. InfoQ spoke to the project lead.

  • JavaServer Faces 2.0 Composite Components

    The JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.0 expert group have released Draft 2 for JSF 2.0. This introduces a composite component model based on the Facelets approach which greatly simplifies the building of custom components with the standard Java EE web framework.

  • IIS URL Rewriting vs ASP.NET Routing

    With the release and press around IIS7 URL Rewriting, many questions have been raised about the interplay between IIS Rewriting and ASP.NET Routing. How do the two features relate to each other and when should each be used?

  • Web Frameworks, MVC, and ASP.NET

    After nearly a year as a community tech preview, Microsoft has released the first true beta of the ASP.NET MVC framework. ASP.NET MVC is a radical departure from the WebForms technology has promoted in the past, and in the opinion of many, a return to mainstream web programming. The MVC pattern provides the cornerstone for web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and Java's Spring Framework.

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