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The Wiki Engine from CodePlex is now Open Source
The Wiki rendering engine from Microsoft’s open source site, CodePlex, has been itself open sourced as an API.
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A Preview of Version 2 of ASP.NET MVC
Microsoft has released the first preview for their ASP.NET MVC v2. Highlights include a new plugable validation model, sub-projects for dividing up large websites, and an enhanced templating model.
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Rails 2.3.3 Released and the State of Rails 3.0 and Merb
Rails 2.3.3 is now available. Among the usual bug fixes, it adds a few new features like ActiveRecord touch functionality and some JSON related API changes. Also: a look at what's up with Rails 3 and Merb 1.1.
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Goat Rodeo: A Unified Data Model for Web Applications
David Pollak, found of the Lift web framework and "Beginning Scala" author, has announced a new initiative "Goat Rodeo" that aims to bring data modeling into the 21st century.
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Keynote: The Future of Java Innovation
In the opening keynote at SpringOne Europe 2009, Rod Johnson wondered if Java innovation is going to be stifled by latest Oracle acquisition and expressed his belief that Java will continue to evolve outside of Sun as it has done for the last few years. As proof he mentioned: Grails, Roo, a tool for improved developer productivity, a free STS, tc Server and dm Server.
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Presentation: Gluing together the Web via the Facebook Platform
Facebook offers an open standards platform for creating social network applications. Josh Elman discusses the concept of social networking and how the Facebook platform addresses issues of identity, of social graphing, and sharing (via its Open Stream API). His presentation explored the nature of a social graph and the "virtuous cylcle of sharing."
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Spring Roo 1.0 M1 Released
The recent release of Spring Roo, a round-tripping code generation tool used to develop Spring applications in Java, offers Tomcat, JMS and Selenium support. SpringSource development team released Roo 1.0 M1 version last week.
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Rack 1.0 Released
Rack, the "minimal interface between webservers supporting Ruby and Ruby frameworks" has finally seen its 1.0 release. We talked to Rack developer Christian Neukirchen to learn what his plans for the future of Rack are.
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Interview: Geoffrey Grosenbach on PeepCode
In this interview taped at RubyFringe, Geoffrey Grosenbach talks about the Ruby and Rails community, the popular PeepCode screencasts and books, and more.
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Five Questions with Eric Hexter and Jeffery Palermo
Eric Hexter and Jeffery Palermo are the founders of MVC Contrib, an open source extension to Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC. With MVC Contrib getting ready for its first first production-grade release, we asked them to take a moment to reflect on the project and ASP.NET MVC as a whole.
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WEB4J: Contrarian Web App Development for Java
WEB4J is a minimalist, opinionated, full-stack web framework for Java. It embraces convention over configuration and is extremely small: only 88 classes total.
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Spring Batch 2.0 Supports Job Partitioning and Annotation Based Configuration
The latest version of Spring Batch framework supports job partitioning, remote chunking and annotation based configuration. Spring Batch development team recently released version 2.0 of the batch framework. The new version also has features like Java 5 support and non-sequential execution.
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Should ASP.NET Developers Learn ASP.NET MVC?
Many discussions of whether or not developers should use or learn ASP.NET MVC has been going on in blogs, Twitter and forums the last couple of weeks. The opinions varies from not recommended to all ASP.NET developers should learn it. InfoQ have tried to summarize some of the recent activity around this topic.
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Eclipse BIRT reporting and BIRT Exchange
Actuate has announced the BIRT Global Partner Connection at BIRT Exchange, for organisations wishing to develop with BIRT, an open-source reporting framework for Eclipse. BIRT provides reporting functionality and is one of the top ten projects at Eclipse.
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Interview: Chad Myers on FubuMVC - An Alternative MVC Implementation in ASP.NET
When ASP.NET MVC was first made available, Jeremy D. Miller and Chad Myers worked with the pre release versions and changed some of the underlying implementation. Later almost nothing was left of the original ASP.NET MVC implementation and they decided to create the alternative ASP.NET MVC implementation FubuMVC. Later they invited in Mark Nijhof as one of the major contributors to the project.