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Object Relational Mapping - User Case Studies
Roberto Zicari, from ODBMS.org, collected interviews and stories from several users of Object/Relational mapping technologies. The main point of the cases was around "impedance mismatch" between the object technology in the domain model and the relational technology in the data model.
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Web services orchestration engine Apache ODE 1.2 Released
The Apache ODE team announced this month the 1.2 release of the Apache ODE project. These releases includes many new features, including external variables,support for WSDL HTTP binding and REST-style Web Services advanced endpoint configuration, and a lot of small improvements and bug fixes.
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Thoughts On Software Architecture and Corporate Structure
Many important challenges faced by a software architect for a large company have as much to do with the organization as technology. In a recent blog entry, Dan Greenblog drew parallels between the principals behind software architecture and effective organizational structures.
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Microsoft announces release of “Zermatt” Identity Framework
Microsoft released a beta of “Zermatt”, an identity framework for developers using the .Net framework. The framework helps developers build claims-aware applications to address application security requirements using a simplified application access model.
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CM Crossroads on SCM for Small Teams
Agile brings to organizations, among other things, small teams coupled with constant change. Navigating this effectively requires understanding what this means to Software Configuration Management practices. The July edition of CM Journal's "cm//crossroads" is dedicated to helping people meet this challenge successfully.
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Q&A with Dylan Schiemann co-creator of Dojo on AJAX, Comet, Bayeux, RIAs and the Dojo Toolbox
The Dojo Toolkit is a modular open source JavaScript library, designed to ease the rapid development of JavaScript or Ajax-based applications and web sites. InfoQ had a Q&A with Dylan Schiemann, CEO of SitePen and co-creator of the Dojo Toolkit, about AJAX, Comet, Bayeux, RIAs and the newly released Dojo Toolbox.
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Google Introduces Binary Encoding Format: Protocol Buffers
Google caused a stir by releasing Protocol Buffers, a binary serialization format. We take a look at what exactly Protocol Buffers are and what alternatives are available in ASN.1 or Facebook's Thrift.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 August Release
Microsoft has unofficially announced that SQL Server 2008 will be released in August, 2008 with no price increase over SQL Server 2005.
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Databases Roundup: Data Sharding for ActiveRecord and Faster Postgres IO
In this databases roundup we take a look at DataFabric, FiveRun's recently open sourced data sharding plug-in for ActiveRecord. Also: a look at speeding up Postgres data access using the asynchronous client API and Ruby 1.9's Fibers.
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Internet Explorer 6 on its way out (or not)?
Since attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 2002 and 2003, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) has been rapidly losing market share. As the end of 2008 approaches, significant online services, vendors and web frameworks are dropping support for IE6. Will this year be the end of IE6 and what does this signify for Web 2.0 developers?
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Eucalyptus Project Delivers Open Source Cloud Computing with EC2 Interface Compatibility
Eucalyptus is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing cloud computing. Among its features is interface compatibility with EC2 (both Web service and Query interfaces).
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Interview: Christophe Coenraets Discusses Flex 3, AIR, and BlazeDS
In this interview from QCon London 2008, Christophe Coenraets discusses Flex 3, Flex Builder, AIR, BlazeDS, the move towards open source at Adobe, how to integrate Flex with existing applications, and the challenges of integrating Rich Internet Applications with search engines and built-in browser functionality.
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Eclipse Riena: Business-Oriented Client/Server Applications
The third milestone of Eclipse Riena 1.0.0 has been released, offering a first draft of new user-interface concepts and a new look-and-feel to make Eclipse-based applications more business-process oriented.
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Opinions: What is The Optimal Business Model for Today's Web?
What is the optimal business model for today’s web? Opinions diverge in a series of articles around this issue. While authors seem to share the conviction that simplicity is the key in web environment, they do not necessarily put the same meaning into this term. Is less really more? Or should it rather be more with less? And how do we achieve it?
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Spring Dynamic Modules Continuing To Improve
OSGi is all the rage with numerous implementations and usages and the Spring Framework has also been in the mix. Earlier this year they released Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi(tm) Service Platforms version 1.0. Improving the development of Spring applications running an OSGi framework. Recently they release version 1.1.0.