NeverBlock and Non-Blocking Database Adapters

Community

Ruby

Topics

Data Access,

Ruby on Rails

Besides Postgres, NeverBlock now also supports MySQL through the new MySQLPlus adapter. We talked to two of the developers of MySQLPlus and discussed NeverBlock and non-blocking database adapters with developers of Ruby's Oracle and SQLite interfaces.

Volta: Developing Distributed Applications by Recompiling

Community

.NET,

Architecture

Topics

Javascript,

Language,

Cloud Computing

Volta extends the reach of .NET programming languages, libraries, and tools to cover the cloud. As such it seems to become Microsoft's response to Google's GWT. In this article the contributors to the project explain what is "Architecture Refactoring", how it works and where it is going.

Spying on Silverlight

Community

.NET

Topics

Silverlight

The success of Microsoft Silverlight, as seen in the recent Beijing Olympics, shows the capabilities of the technology and is attracting more developers. The addition of end-users and developers using Silverlight will also drive more tool development and one such useful tool is Silverlight Spy by First Floor.

Presentation: Building Smart Windows Applications

Community

.NET

Topics

Web Services,

.NET Framework

In this demo driven presentation, Daniel Moth explores the new features of .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 to create rich Windows clients. There are many opportunities for creating a rich application that runs client-side capitalizes on server-side investments.

Questioning Servant Leadership

Community

Agile

Topics

Leadership,

Careers

Is the role of an agile manager only that of servant leader? Should they ever use traditional command and control tools? Should the agile manager ever wield authority and make demands of the team? Should they ever make changes in the membership?

Using Closures to Improve API Design and Usage

Community

.NET

Topics

Programming

Some APIs such as those that perform complex parsing often expose intermediate results via events. As Eric White demonstrates, closures can be used to greatly simplify calling these APIs.

New NHibernate Community Site

Community

.NET

Topics

Announcements,

Community

Fabio Maulo, a member of the NHibernate team, has announced the start of a new NHibernate web site called NH Forge. The name is a reminder of the fact that NHibernate was previously hosted on SourceForge.net since 2005. The purpose of the new site is to bring together the NHibernate community, having all necessary in one place.

Article: Using Ruby Fibers for Async I/O: NeverBlock and Revactor

Community

Architecture,

Ruby

Topics

Runtimes,

Data Access,

Performance & Scalability,

Ruby on Rails

Ruby 1.9's Fibers and non-blocking I/O are getting more attention - we talked to Mohammad A. Ali of the NeverBlock project (which provides support for MySQL and PostgreSQL) and Tony Arcieri of the Revactor project.

Martin Fowler on Avoiding Common Scrum Pitfalls

Community

Agile

Topics

Training / Certification,

Adopting Agile

Jacky Li of InfoQ China spoke with Martin Fowler during ThoughtWorks' AgileChina conference. In this print interview, Martin Fowler talked about Scrum certification and the future of Agile.

JRuby Roundup: RCov Port Available, Ribs For Hibernate Support, Parser Stats

Community

Java,

Ruby

Topics

JRuby,

Performance & Scalability,

Data Access

A port of the popular code coverage tool rcov is now available for JRuby. Ola Bini started a Hibernate-based library for persisting Ruby objects named Ribs. And finally, JRuby trunk contains a new MBean for analysing parse times.

Agile in Practice: What Is Actually Going On Out There?

Scott Ambler talks about actual data resulting from surveys made during 2006-2008, showing how Agile is perceived and implemented within organizations.

Building Smart Windows Applications

From QCon 2008, Daniel Moth presents on using Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 to create compelling rich Windows applications.

Joshua Kerievsky about Industrial XP

Joshua Kerievsky, founder of Industrial Logic, talks about Industrial Extreme Programming which extends XP by including practices dealing with management, customers and developers.

Jeff Barr Discusses Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Evangelist Jeff Barr discusses SimpleDB, S3, EC2, SQS, cloud computing, how different Amazon services interact, origins of AWS, AWS globalization and the March AWS outage.

More Than Just Spin (Up) : Virtualization for the Enterprise and SaaS

Cloud services have helped bring virtualization to the forefront. Its full power however, also includes other benefits such as high availability, disaster recovery, and rapid provisioning.

Ruby Beyond Rails

John Lam talks about his path to dynamic languages, some of the problems of making IronRuby run fast, and how the DLR helps with implementing languages.

VMware Infrastructure 3 Book Excerpt and Author Interview

VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide and Advanced Operations Guide provides a wealth of practical insights into setting up virtualization in todays corporate environments.

Architectures of extraordinarily large, self-sustaining systems

Can a system that is so large it cannot be comprehended be "designed" in a conventional sense? The foundations of computing are about to change. In this talk, Richard P. Gabriel explores why and how.