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Google Eclipse Plugin released
Google has released an Eclipse plugin specifically for increased productivity with Google App Engine and Google Web Toolkit.
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Pruning The Deadwood from Java EE
Java EE 6 begins the process of pruning APIs from the platform, with five likely to get the chop.
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IBM-Sun Takeover Talks Collapse
IBM's talks to acquire Sun Microsystems have broken down according to media reports.
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Transaction Strategies Based on Java Transaction Models
It is a common mistake to confuse transaction models with transaction strategies. Mark Richards discusses the three transaction models supported by the Java Platform (Local Transaction, Programmatic Transaction, and Declarative Transaction) and four transaction strategies (Client Orchestration, API Layer, High Concurrency, and High Speed Processing) that can be based on those models.
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Presentation: Steve Vinoski on REST, Reuse and Serendipity
Planning reusability is hard, designing for unforeseen reuse might be even harder. In this QCon London 2008 talk, Steve Vinoski presents some of the barriers to reuse found in typical distributed systems development approaches, and discusses how REST not only helps overcome some of these barriers, but also leads to potentially significantly increased chances for achieving serendipitous reuse.
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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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Presentation: The Evolution of Lisp
In this presentation recorded at OOPSLA 2008, Guy L. Steele Jr. and Richard P. Gabriel reenact their presentation called "The Evolution of Lisp" which took place during ACM History of Languages Conference in 1993.
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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.
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Amazon Rolls Out Hadoop Based MapReduce to EC2
It has been possible to run Hadoop on EC2 for a while. Today Amazon simplified the process by announcing Amazon Elastic MapReduce which automatically deploys EC2 instances for computational use and includes a API for interacting with them.
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When Is POSTing State Appropriate?
In an article, Tim Bray, examines the feedback from the first public draft of the APIs for the Sun Cloud. He responds to feedback in the article and explores the ways to model interactions such as, creating a VM in a Cluster, in a RESTful way.
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Interview: Tools for the Open Web
Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith open with a definition of the Open Web, the tension arising from multiple Web technologies, the diversity and "polyphony" of Open Source, the future of Web development tools, and the debate associated with the possible evolution of Javascript. The potential impact of HTML 5 on tool and Web development in general is discussed.
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ASP.NET MVC is Open Source
It has just been announced that ASP.NET MVC has been released under Microsoft’s open source license. The Microsoft Public License is certified by the Open Source Initiative, making is appropriate for most projects requiring an open source license including Novell’s Mono.
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The Enterprise as a Network of Events
A debate between SOA and EDA has recently resurfaced with a blog from Richard Veryard, who discusses relationships between SOA, BPM and events
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The Open Cloud Manifesto
A group of unknown authors have written an Open Cloud Manifesto endorsed by many companies and calling for open cloud computing. The document outlines 4 goals customers have and proposes 6 principles. The secrecy used to create the Manifesto has generated some unfriendly reactions around the web.
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Presentation: Amazon Web Services: Building Blocks for True Internet Applications
This presentation discusses how Amazon's Web Services can help Web developers solve common but vexing problems, including scaling. The Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple DB are discussed in detail along with the Simple Queue, Simple Storage, and Flexible Payment Services. Each discussion covers basic concepts, example APIs, and brief introductions of case studies.