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Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea

Microsoft recently released SP1 for .NET.

0 replies - 2415 views - 08/18/08 by arnonrgo in News

Evolving Architectures - Architecture Retrospective

Retrospectives, every "agile" team does retrospectives.What are retrospectives anyway?A retrospective is a meeting where the team takes a look and...

1 replies - 1198 views - 08/13/08 by arnonrgo in News

BPMN to BPEL: Going to Battle With One Hand Tied?

I have been looking at business process modeling and I am a bit puzzled about the connections between the different goals (strategy support, process...

2 replies - 927 views - 08/11/08 by vambenepe in News

Animoto.com is no infrastructure flexibility benchmark

I have nothing against Animoto. From what I know about them (mostly from John’s podcast with Brad Jefferson) they built their system, using EC2, in a very...

1 replies - 1225 views - 07/22/08 by vambenepe in News

Running mod_rails on Leopard (OSX 10.5)

From the command line:gem install passengersudo passenger-install-apache2-moduleThe Apache 2 module was successfully installed. Please edit your Apache...

2 replies - 779 views - 07/04/08 by danielwanja in News

Java and Mocking

I've just spent my first three days on a project in Leeds. It's a pretty common Java project, RESTful services and some MVC screens. We have been using Mockito...

4 replies - 3401 views - 07/04/08 by olabini in News

BBC Dumps Microsoft For Adobe AIR

The BBC has been using Microsoft technologies for widgets that are used by "hundreds of thousands of users". And they have just publicly stated that...

0 replies - 808 views - 07/02/08 by BenForta in News

Flash Content Is Now Searchable

Adobe has announced new technologies that will allow SWF content to be indexed and searchable, not just text in the SWF, but also data...

0 replies - 868 views - 07/01/08 by BenForta in News

SWF is Searchable

Adobe SWF files that run in the flash player will now be searchable. Adobe published SWF searchability FAQ earlier this morning explaining the details of what...

0 replies - 735 views - 07/01/08 by Shashank Tiwari in News

Saving Twitter in Three Easy Steps

I don’t think I’m alone in seeing Twitter’s service deteriorate to the point where euthanasia seems like the only humane option.Without any obvious...

0 replies - 498 views - 06/30/08 by peterelst in News

TheServerSide Java Symposium Europe is Over

Well, I'm home from Prague, from another edition of TheServerSide Java Symposium. This year was definitely a few notches up from last year in Barcelona in my...

0 replies - 1727 views - 06/26/08 by olabini in News

MAX 2008 Sessions Posted

The MAX USA 2008 site is now up, and the schedule is now online too complete with the session list. Register now! Oh, and the site background is...

0 replies - 428 views - 06/26/08 by BenForta in News

WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Performance Testing - Round 3

This article is the third in a set of articles that measure and compare the performance of the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) against other leading...

0 replies - 1888 views - 06/26/08 by Masoud Kalali in News

The Server Side Java Symposium Europe : Day 1

Its about 6.30PM here in Prague and the day 1 of The Server Side Java Symposium (TSSJS) is wrapping up for the day with an award ceremony (sponsored by...

2 replies - 2590 views - 06/18/08 by Shashank Tiwari in News

Get to know "Merb"

Merb is a lightweight MVC framework that is becoming popular among rubyists. Its claim to fame it that it is flexible. Its agnostic to ORM frameworks,...

0 replies - 1344 views - 06/12/08 by Shashank Tiwari in News