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Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio
In this interview from QCon San Francisco, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson discusses the origins and philosophy of Spring, the Spring Portfolio, Spring Web Flow, Spring Batch, Spring.Net, the partnership with Tasktop Technologies, and community involvement and utilization of Spring.
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Mark Pollack on Spring and Spring.NET
Mark Pollack, founder of Spring.NET, talks about shares ideas between the Java and .NET communities and the history of Spring.NET. Topics include how to use dependency injection and AOP for more than just logging and where Spring.NET overlaps with WCF.
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Evan Phoenix on Rubinius
Evan Phoenix discusses Rubinius, a modern Ruby VM loosely based on the Smalltalk-80 architecture. The goal is to build a fast, efficient VM with the latest research in dynamic language implementations
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Websphere CTO Jerry Cuomo on REST & Project Zero
IBM Fellow and WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo talks about REST and Project Zero, IBM's new Groovy & PHP based RESTful app mashup / scripting / dev tool.
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Bruce Johnson discusses Google Web Toolkit
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) tech lead Bruce Johnson discusses the design of GWT, how GWT converts Java into JavaScript, community involvement with GWT, new features in GWT 1.4, and the philosophy behind GWT.
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Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software
Business users doing programming? In this interview, Charles Simonyi presents a radical new way of building software that separates business knowledge from software engineering knowledge. The claim is to simplify the creation process for software as business experts directly contribute using their customary domain description which results in accelerated innovation.
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Guillaume Laforge on Groovy and DSLs
Groovy project manager Guillaume Laforge discusses the history of Groovy, it's relationship to Java, where Groovy fits into Java development,how Groovy compares to Ruby, how Groovy enables domain-specific languages, and what future Groovy development will focus on.
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Dave Thomas on Ruby, Rails and Choosing the Right Tool
Pragmatic Programmer Dave Thomas, author of the 'pickaxe book' Programming Ruby, and co-author of Agile Web Development with Rails and The Pragmatic Programmer, found some time to talk with InfoQ about Ruby, Rails and the importance of choosing the right tool for the job.
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Zed Shaw on Mongrel, Ruby stacks and languages besides Ruby
Zed Shaw sat down with InfoQ's Obie Fernandez to talk about his project Mongrel. The discussion moves on Ruby in the Enterprise and ways to make money from it. The interview ends with Zed talking about his ventures into languages such as Smalltalk, Lua and the Forth-inspired Factor.
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Ari Zilka on Terracotta, Clustering and Open Source
Ari Zilka, co-founder and CTO of Terracotta, talks about the capabilities of Terracotta, the use cases it supports, and the rationale and impact of taking Terracotta to an open source model.
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Joe Walker on DWR
InfoQ spoke with Joe Walker at QCon London 2007 about the DWR toolkit. Walker discussed DWR 2.0 including new features such as details about 'reverse AJAX', the deal with TIBCO, DWR support in IDEs, the integration with Spring, future plans for DWR, and interesting applications of DWR from the very large to the very flashy.
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Jay Fields and Zak Tamsen on Domain Specific Languages
Jay Fields and Zak Tamsen have successfully worked with non-technical domain experts to design Domain Specific Languages for some of their projects at ThoughtWorks. In this interview with InfoQ they describe their motivations for using DSLs, and describe how they can be used to empower the business, reduce development time, and increase the agility of projects.
