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ColdFusion Trends with Ben Forta

ColdFusion guru Ben Forta discusses the state of ColdFusion, CF adoption trends, and the future of the platform.

Introducing Infinispan: Part I

Part I provides an overview of the capabilities of Infinispan, including usage examples and a tour of the API's.

Consuming Services with WCF

Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an effective framework for implementing services as well as service consumers. Whenever you deal with WCF...

0 replies - 1191 views - 10/26/09 by herbjorn in Articles

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/23

Firefox may release its upcoming version 3.6 as a so-called "minor update" even though it is actually a fairly major one. Mike Beltzner, director...

0 replies - 3004 views - 10/22/09 by lyndsey in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/22

According to Amazon, the world's biggest software company has also racked up the largest number of pre-orders of any product, EVER! That's right, Amazon...

0 replies - 2842 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Could the EU Block the Oracle-Sun Deal?

This week the European Commission expressed its displeasure with Oracle's lack of cooperation in the antitrust probe surrounding the Sun acquisition. ...

3 replies - 2178 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Breaking into Agile

I had a recent conversation with some folks who were desperate to "processize" everything. They were asking about Scrum Master certification and what...

0 replies - 568 views - 10/22/09 by slott in News

Top 10 Strategic Technologies

Researchers at Gartner recently posted a list of the top 10 strategic technologies for 2009. These technologies will most likely have a significant impact on...

0 replies - 2146 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Missing out on the Open Cloud Computing Interface fun

As a recovering “design by committee” offender I have to be careful when lurking near standards groups mailing list, for fear my instincts may take over...

0 replies - 415 views - 10/21/09 by vambenepe in News

JBoss Fellow Bill Burke Discusses REST-*, RESTEasy

DZone recently spoke with JBoss Fellow, Bill Burke on a range of RESTful topics, including REST-*, an open source project aimed at defining new standards,...

2 replies - 6105 views - 10/20/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

An Agile Team in Flux

In late 2008, ThoughtWorks was called in to remove legacy systems and initiate an Agile cultural shift for a large international communications firm. ...

0 replies - 1178 views - 10/17/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Django Capacity Planning -- Reading the Meta Model

I find that some people spend way too much time doing "meta" programming. I prefer to use someone's framework rather than (a) write my own or (b)...

0 replies - 709 views - 10/17/09 by slott in News

Fault Injection Testing - First Steps with JBoss Byteman

Fault injection testing[1] is a very useful element of a comprehensive test strategy in that it enables you to concentrate on an area that can be difficult to...

0 replies - 2301 views - 10/16/09 by ldimaggi in News

OO Design for Testability

We design our code for performance, maintenance, simplicity, extensibility and other goals, but most of us do not think about testability as a design...

0 replies - 2665 views - 10/16/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

NetKernel 4.0 Arrives; Based on New, More Efficient Microkernel

A completely revamped NetKernel 4.0 is now available under the 1060 Research public license. The new version of the resource oriented computing (ROC)...

0 replies - 2632 views - 10/15/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Integrating JBoss RESTEasy and Spring MVC

Building websites is a tough job. It's even tougher when you also have to support XML and JSON data services. Developers need to provide...

2 replies - 12454 views - 10/15/09 by Solomon in Articles