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REST is a style -- WOA is the architecture.
Dion Hinchcliffe discusses Web Architecture and the relationship of REST practices and principles in the construction of a Web Oriented Architecture (WOA). The relationship between WOA and SOA is also explored.
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Google Has Open Sourced Page Speed
Google has just open sourced Page Speed, a tool used internally by Google to optimize their web sites, especially the speed web pages are loaded with.
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High-performance Teams – Avoiding Teamicide
High-performance teams constitute a mere 2% of the workforce, but Agile processes appear to stimulate the formation of these types of teams. This article discusses Steve Denning's perspective on how such teams can be nurtured in the workplace; it also looks at a recent talk by Ominlab Media's Stefan Gillard on how to select and employ for the formation of high-performance teams.
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HATEOAS as an engine for domain specific protocol-description
Explaining HATEOAS is notoriously tricky, In an effort to make it easier, Nick Gall explores the idea of describing it as an engine for domain specific protocol-description.
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Presentation: AtomServer: The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution
In this session recorded at QCon SF 2008, Chris Berry & Bryon Jacob presented the Atom Syndication Format, the Atom Publishing Protocol, the Atom Categories, the Atom Stores, the AtomServer and how they can be used by giving a concrete example.
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Presentation: Eclipse, Mylyn and the TFI
Mik Kersten offers a two-part presentation on productivity enhancement using Mylyn's task management features including offline editing, background synchronizations and change notifications with demos of how these work for Bugzilla and JIRA. Part two looks at how Mylyn's frameworks can be extended for IDE, desktop, and server-side applications.
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Presentation: Kent Beck on Responsive Design
Purpose and intent are just as important as skill in effective software development. Skill allows you to deliver value in difficult technical circumstances. Clear purpose and positive intent allow you to deliver value in difficult social and business circumstances. Kent Beck shares his design technique which involves both intent and a small set of strategies he uses when designing.
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IBM Announces the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance
BM recently announced its WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance a device that facilitates the creation, deployment, and administration of private WebSphere cloud environments. The appliance offers virtual image from which complete WebSphere Application Server topologies can be constructed to create patterns as representations of fully functional WebSphere Application Server environments.
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CRISPY, a New Remoting Framework
With the multiplicity of existing remoting mechanisms it is often necessary to build clients in a way that allows to swap/introduce new protocols with no/minimal impact to the client’s implementation. A new framework – CRISPY - provides support for such implementations.
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Towards Generics Support for OSGi
OSGi's APIs are based on Java 1.1 support to allow it to run in VM-constrained devices such as J2ME mobile phones. However, with Java 1.4's end-of-life, all development systems are capable of handling generics and language features like for-each. Peter Kriens and BJ Hargrave present the results of some experimental investigation of how the OSGi APIs might end up being able to support generics.
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QCon San Francisco Nov 18-20 Tracks and Conference Announced
The tracks for the third annual QCon San Francisco (Nov 18-20) have been published and QCon is now open for early registration. Last year's QCon SF survived the downturn in November with over 450 attendees, this year we have reduced the price and are offering special early registration with savings of $800 until June 17th.
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Google Guice 2.0: Enhanced Capabilities, Less Boilerplate
Guice, a lightweight Java dependency injection framework created by Google, recently released version 2.0. InfoQ spoke with Google Developer Team member Jesse Wilson to learn more about this release and what capabilities it adds to Guice.
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Flex Open Source Data Visualization Framework: Axiis
A new open source addition to the Adobe Flex world is Axiis, a data visualization framework released in May under the MIT license. Data visualization is a term frequently used to describe graphical views of application data, such as charts and graphs.
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Interview: Eric Evans on the State of DDD
At QCon San Francisco, 2008, Eric Evans answers questions about his recent activities and the evolution of DDD. During the interview he responds to questions about the relationship of DDD to usability, to FIT and FITnesse type testing, technology tools, and domain-specific languages. He also speaks about the DDD community as a whole.
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Interview: Ruby in Practice with Jeremy McAnally
InfoQ’s Robert Bazinet and Matthew Bass had the opportunity recently to talk with Jeremy McAnally about his new book, Ruby in Practice. Jeremy gives readers insight about the book but goes into detail about Ruby’s use in the enterprise.