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Establishing Your Organization's Enterprise Security API

Community
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.

News about Open Source

Singularity: Microsoft's Open Source Operating System

Community
.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.

OpenMoko Faces MP3 Patent Dispute

Community
.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.

Articles about Open Source

AtomServer – The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution – Part Two

Community
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.

AtomServer – The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution

Community
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.

Interviews about Open Source

John Lam on IronRuby, Microsoft and Open Source

Community
.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.

Tom Preston-Werner on Powerset, GitHub, Ruby and Erlang

Community
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.

Presentations about Open Source

Configuring the Spring Container

Community
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.

JP Rangaswami on open source in the enterprise & the future of information

Community
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.