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FiveRuns Readies Latest Component of Rails Stack - Installer
FiveRuns, an enterprise Rails company, have built an installer for Ruby and associated packages.
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OpenCSA Plenary Kick-starts SCA Standardization Effort
Less than a week after the official announcement concerning the formation of 6 new SCA-related technical committees, OASIS announces that there will be a 3 day Plenary, which will include an educational day followed by the first meetings of the various committees.
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Gordon Pask Award Recipients Announced
At the Agile2007 Conference banquet on Thursday last week, the recipients of the Gordon Pask Award for Contribution to Agile Practice were announced: Jeff Patton "the Usability Guy" and Naresh Jain, instigator of usergroups, conferences and more. In addition, Dale Emery received the brand new Ward Cunningham "Gentle Voice of Reason" award.
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TW Team Wins with Cure for "Developer Abuse"
The AgileAdvert contest asked "So you want to be a famous Agilist?" At Agile2007's Google reception, the audience voted to make the sad ThoughtWorks clip "Developer Abuse" the no.1 video, so "Matthew" is this year's Famous Agilist (name changed to protect the innocent). Other winners featured singing, dancing, a beating, "outside the box" thinking, expletives (deleted), and charming children.
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Linked-In, Second Life, eBay, Orbitz, Yahoo! architectures to be presented @ QCon SF
The 'architectures you've always wondered about' track at QCon San Francisco this year will be featuring the architectures of Linked-In, Second Life, eBay, Orbitz, & Yahoo!, presented directly from key architects at those companies. QCon itself also has a number of other tracks on architecture, Java, .NET, Ruby, Agile, research technologies, and more.
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QCon San Francisco (Nov 7-9) Schedule & Speakers Posted
The schedule and 44 speakers (another 20 to be confirmed soon) has been posted for QCon, InfoQ's new enterprise software development conference coming to San Francisco Nov 7-9. Some of the speakers include Martin Fowler; Rod Johnson (Spring Creator); the architects of Second Life, Orbitz, Yahoo! & Linked-In; Erik Meijer (LINQ Creator); and many more!
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InfoQ Launches Architecture Community
InfoQ has launched a 6th community on 'Architecture', the intention of which is to serve as a source for tracking change and innovation of interest to those with an architecting/design role but not specific to any of our other communities on InfoQ which currently include Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile.
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IBM Interoperability Pledge
IBM announced that it is granting universal and perpetual access to certain intellectual property that might be necessary to implement more than 150 standards designed to make software interoperable, including SCA and SDO.
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Gordon Pask Award Nominations 2007
The nominations for the Gordon Pask award 2007 were announced at the end of June. The award is given yearly for contributions to Agile Practice and targets those who have something to say or something to show, but whose reputation is not already widespread, and comes with a travel sponsorship to encourage the spread of ideas at conferences.
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QCon San Francisco Enterprise Software Development Conference Nov 7-9
The QCon is coming to San Francsico Nov 7-9; registration is now open (save $600 by July 15th). Our first conf in London this year featured the architectures of eBay, Amazon, Yahoo! and many leading technologists speaking such as Martin Fowler, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Spring founder Rod Johnson, Scrum co-founder Jeff Sutherland, Hibernate creator Gavin King, Dave Thomas, and many more.
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InfoQ Interview: Rich Kilmer on the Power of Ruby
Rich Kilmer is one of the Ruby world's great conversationalists and storytellers. In this InfoQ exclusive interview, Rich tells us about using Ruby at DARPA, the research arm of the USA's military, plus how he has leveraged a variety of cutting-edge software and techniques such as Flash, DSLs, OWL and semantic web technologies in conjunction with Ruby.
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InfoQ Turns One Year Old!
InfoQ officially launched exactly one year ago today, and what a year it has been! Our mission is to be the world's source for tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community; in keeping with that mission InfoQ has published a crazy amount of content, launched our QCon event in London, launched InfoQ China, and have reached over 135,000 unique visitors/month.
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InfoQ China Unlaunches
InfoQ's mission is to be the world's source for tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community. To maximize InfoQ's positive impact, InfoQ is extending to serve communities where English is a strong barrier, starting with China, and in a few months Japan, and hopefully Brasil by the end of the year.
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QCon London next week - Registration Still Open, Day Passes Available
QCon is next week and over 500 people are registered to attend. It's not too late to register! For those who can't make it to the full 3 day conference, there are a few ways you can get a more limited taste of the conference, such as attending a one-day tutorial, buying a day pass to the conference.
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Microsoft Announces its Commitment to BPEL 1.1 and 2.0
Microsoft already supports BPEL in its ESB product BizTalk Server. Now the company has announced its plans to support BPEL within the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), which is integrated into Windows Vista. BPEL will be supported by a set of WF activities available as BPEL for Windows Workflow Foundation.