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Article:Agile – A Way of Life and Pragmatic Use of Authority

Monday, Feb 08, 2010 03:41 PM | Vinay Aggarwal

Vinay Aggarwal shares many instances in life where authority is needed and lack of authority allows for extremely costly mistakes. He then explicitly suggests where authority could and should be used in Agile environments. By Vinay Aggarwal

Ruby in Steel 1.5 Released, Drops IronRuby Support

Monday, Feb 08, 2010 09:00 AM | Mirko Stocker

SapphireSteel Software, the developers of the Visual Studio based Ruby in Steel IDE have just released version 1.5. Among many improvements, they also dropped support for IronRuby. By Mirko Stocker

Mini book:Getting Started with Grails, Second Edition

Saturday, Feb 06, 2010 04:32 PM | Scott Davis & Jason Rudolph

"Getting Started with Grails" brings you up to speed on this modern web framework. Companies as varied as LinkedIn, Wired, and Taco Bell are all using Grails. Are you ready to get started as well? By Scott Davis & Jason Rudolph

HTML5, H.264 and Flash roundup

Friday, Feb 05, 2010 06:00 PM | Alex Blewitt

Last week, InfoQ published a piece on YouTube offering HTML5 beta for its videos, in H.264 format. Shortly thereafter, Vimeo announced an HTML5 beta as well, also using H.264 as the video codec. However, Mozilla has come out against using H.264, whilst the recent iPad launch has focussed on the H.264 hardware decoding. Has Flash finally met its match? By Alex Blewitt

What Really Motivates Workers

Friday, Feb 05, 2010 03:07 PM | Shane Hastie

In a recent Harvard Business Review article Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J Kramer challenged the commonly held mnagement belief that Recognition is the most motivating and positive factor in the workplace. Their multi-year study tracked the motivation and emotions of hundreds of knowledge workers and identified POGRESS as the single most important factor for individual motivation in the workplace By Shane Hastie

Article:Using ITIL V3 as a Foundation for SOA Governance

Friday, Feb 05, 2010 02:00 PM | JP Morgenthal

Those familiar with only ITIL V2 often scoff at the thought that ITIL could serve as a governance framework for SOA. Based on their perspective, they would be correct since V2 focused more heavily on operational processes rather than service lifecycle. With ITIL V3, the focus of the framework shifted toward what can only be accurately described as service-orientation. By JP Morgenthal

AutoMapper 1.0 For .NET Released

Friday, Feb 05, 2010 01:00 PM | Jon Arild Tørresdal

The open source project AutoMapper written by Jimmy Bogard has been actively developed for about a year and recently got to the 1.0 mark. AutoMapper is a convention based object-to-object mapper often used to (but not restricted to) flatten complex object models to DTOs, commonly used in ViewModels and crossing service boundaries. By Jon Arild Tørresdal

Interview:Adrian Colyer on AspectJ, tc Server and dm Server

Friday, Feb 05, 2010 12:23 PM | Adrian Colyer

SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer talks to InfoQ about AspectJ. The interview explores how products such as Spring Roo are using AspectJ, and how ideas from AspectJ helped SpringSource improve the Groovy compiler inside Eclipse. Colyer also discusses SpringSource's two server offerings, dm Server and tc Server, OSGi and Scrum. By Adrian Colyer

Maven to be Built on Guice

Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 05:21 PM | Josh Long

Sonatype, the professional services company that sponsors the development of many key Maven committers, has announced that they will build Maven 3 atop the Guice Dependency Injection (DI) container instead of the Plexus DI container employed for Maven 1 and 2. Backwards compatability will be ensured using a shim to support Plexus. By Josh Long

NDepend 3.0 Is Integrated with Visual Studio

Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 01:00 PM | Abel Avram

NDepend 3.0 comes integrated with Visual Studio analyzing code in real time, can analyze code over multiple VS solutions, supports editing of multiple CQL rules at one time, and comes with enhanced search and performance. By Abel Avram

Azure Drive Eases the Migration to Microsoft’s Cloud

Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 12:30 PM | Abel Avram

Initially announced as XDrive during PDC 2009, Microsoft has released the beta version of Windows Azure Drive, a storage access solution simplifying the migration of Windows applications to the cloud by creating an NTFS virtual drive on top of a storage blob. By Abel Avram

Interview:Adam Wiggins on Heroku

Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 08:40 AM | Adam Wiggins

Heroku's Adam Wiggins talks about how Heroku, Add-Ons, Ruby, and how Heroku manages to work around Ruby's inefficiencies using Erlang and other languages. By Adam Wiggins

PyBinding: Python Scripting for XAML

Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 04:01 AM | Jonathan Allen

WPF developers often find themselves with an unappetizing choice. They have to either pollute their code-behind files with special case logic or create value converter classes, most of which will only be used once. PyBinding offers a third option, embedding small scripts right inside the XAML. By Jonathan Allen

Presentation:SOA as an Architectural Pattern: Best Practices in Software Architecture

Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 03:35 AM | Grady Booch

For Grady Booch the foundation of a good architecture is patterns, SOA being just one of many patterns. In this Second Life presentation, Booch attempts to bring more clarity to some basic concepts: enterprise, patterns, frameworks, architecture, SOA, development, architecture lifecycle, best practices, what they are and what the aren’t, emphasizing the role and importance of patterns. By Grady Booch

5 Security Enhancements in Chrome

Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 01:00 AM | Abel Avram

Google has added five security enhancements to Chrome in order to make browsing more secure: cross-documents message posting, Strict Transport Security, Origin and X-Frame-Options header fields, and Reflective XSS Filter. Some of these features have already been or are to be implemented by other browsers. By Abel Avram