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Latest featured content about Open Source

- Architecture,
- Java
- Topics
- Web Services,
- Design,
- Open Source,
- Security
Every organization should define a standard way for developers to perform common security-related actions - authenticating, access control, validation, encoding, encryption, logging, error handling, and more.
In this talk, Jeff discuss the process of establishing a security API for your enterprise, focusing on the most critical methods needed by web application and web service developers.
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By Jeff Williams
on Nov 05, 2008,
News about Open Source
- .NET
- Topics
- Research,
- Open Source,
- Operating Systems
The second release of the Singularity Research Development Kit is now available as both source code and as a bootable CD. Singularity is an operating system based almost entirely on managed code with a very high degree of isolation between processes. In an unusual move by Microsoft, Singularity is soliciting patches and offering full developer rights on CodePlex.
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By Jonathan Allen
on Nov 18, 2008,
- .NET
- Topics
- Licensing,
- Open Source
The Linux-based phone, OpenMoko is currently in a patent dispute with Sisvel, the Italian patent holding firm known for its aggressive enforcement of MPEG patents.
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By Jonathan Allen
on Nov 16, 2008,
Articles about Open Source

- SOA
- Topics
- REST,
- Open Source
In this article, Bryon Jacob and Chris Berry continue their description of AtomServer, their implementation of a full-fledged Atom Store based on Apache Abdera. The authors have created several extensions to the AtomPub specification, among them Auto-Tagging, Batching, and Aggregate Feeds.
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By Chris Berry & Bryon Jacob
on Sep 26, 2008,

- SOA
- Topics
- REST,
- Open Source
In this article, Bryon Jacob and Chris Berry introduce AtomServer, their implementation of a full-fledged Atom Store based on Apache Abdera. The authors spent the last year implementing an Atom Store for Homeaway, their employer, and are mnow making the Atom Store framework available as open source.
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By Bryon Jacob and Chris Berry
on Jul 02, 2008,
Interviews about Open Source

- .NET,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Runtimes,
- Dynamic Languages,
- Rich Internet Apps,
- Silverlight,
- Open Source,
- .NET Framework,
- Community
In this interview from RubyFringe, John Lam talks about his work on IronRuby and how Microsoft is approaching Open Source software development.
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By John Lam
on Oct 30, 2008,

- Ruby
- Topics
- Scripting,
- Performance & Scalability,
- Monitoring Tools,
- Ruby on Rails,
- Web Servers,
- Open Source,
- Programming
In this interview filmed at RubyFringe 2008, Tom Preston-Werner talks about how both Powerset and GitHub use Ruby and Erlang, as well as tools like Fuzed, god, and more.
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By Tom Preston-Werner
on Oct 09, 2008,
Presentations about Open Source

- Java
- Topics
- Web Frameworks,
- Open Source
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Framework. Topics covered include the philosophy behind Spring, configuring the Spring container, XML configuration, new XML configuration namespaces, Annotation-based configuration, automatic component annotation scanning, Spring JavaConfig, mixing configuration types, and Spring 2.5 new features.
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By Rod Johnson
on May 29, 2008,

- Java,
- Architecture,
- .NET,
- Ruby,
- SOA
- Topics
- Open Source,
- Business
CIO JP Rangaswami explains how open source became a corporate IT strategy at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and why CIOs of major enterprises should open source for software development initiatives. JP also explains his vision of four pillars of the new world if information: Syndication, Search, Fulfillment, and Collaboration/Conversation.
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By JP Rangaswami
on Mar 08, 2007,