Microsoft just released the second major version of ASP.NET MVC.  An alternative to HTML abstraction development in ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET MVC 2 is used in cases where control over the HTML and precise layer separation are more important than productivity.  The new version features support for lambda expressions in the HTML input helpers, new validation technology, async controllers,...

Just a few days after leaving Oracle, Simon Phipps, who served as the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun for nearly ten years, has been elected to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board of directors.  Phipps intends to help the organization become more active in promoting open source education and possibly in promoting organizational support for open source projects.  He will take his place on...

Joseph Crawford has a new post to his blog today with a look at his use of the Zend_Rest_Controller and Zend_Rest_Route components of the Zend Framework to create a simple REST service .

Zend Framework 1.10 sports a ton of new features, as well as completely revamped online documentation. In this webinar, Matthew Weier O’Phinney, Framework Project Lead, and Ralph Schindler, Zend Framework Software Engineer, will present a synopsis of the new features, discuss the new online documentation system and how it’s built, and answer your questions about the new release….

To be successful, larger Drupal sites face key issues of site performance and scalability. This webinar is targeted at managers and developers who are trying to get the most out of a Drupal site. We’ll discuss common Drupal performance bottlenecks and a number of techniques to dramatically improve site performance. A detailed review of recent performance and stress testing will highlight PHP opt…

I am halfway through reading Growing object-oriented software, guided by tests, a book that teaches Test-Driven Development in a Java environment. A review will come soon, since the process described in this work is really language-agnostic and interesting also for php developers.References Reference:  Acceptance Test-Driven Development ...

Johnathan Schwartz, the former CEO of Sun recently said what he couldn't say about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when he was with the company.  "I feel for Google," said Schwartz, "Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too."  Jobs called Schwartz in 2003 when Sun unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass.  Jobs told Schwartz that Sun was infringing on Apple's...

Atlassian currently is in the process of migrating their employees from Zimbra to Google Apps to reflect their recent move to integrate JIRA Studio, their hosed SDL package, with the Google Apps suite.  With the relaunch of the Google Apps Marketplace, JIRA Studio is now available for download on that site as well.  Google Apps are used by over 2 mil

One source had confirmed that Twitter was working with the NoSQL data store, Cassandra, late last year.  Some more details have finally surfaced about this quiet transition from a MySQL + Memcached system to Cassandra.  The MyNoSQL blog recently interviewed Ryan King, who is leading the Cassandra conversion efforts at Twitter.

Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun  

On DZone.com today there's a new interview by Lyndsey Clevesy with Jason Gilmore looking at the Zend Framework and some of the general things to expect in coming versions.

When I discussed VersionControlTools I said that it was an unscientific agglomeration of opinion. As I was doing it I realized that I could add some spurious but mesmerizing numbers to my analysis by doing a survey. Google's spreadsheet makes the mechanics of conducting a survey really simple, so I couldn't resist.References Reference:  ...

Former Novell CTO Becomes W3C CEO

R.I.P. Felipe Gaúcho: DZone MVB & Tireless Java Advocate The DZone team was very sad to read the news that Felipe Gaúcho had passed away this weekend. Felipe has been an active member of JavaLobby for many years, as well as being a key JUG leader.

This week's DZone Refcard is about Getting Started with the Zend Framework. The card introduces you to the basics of the Zend Framework and sets you on the path to creating your first project. I met the author, Jason Gilmore, to find out more about the topic.

Today, the Eclipse Mylyn project is announcing a major restructuring with the creation of several different sub-projects for each key Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) category.  DZone spoke with Mik Kersten, the founder of the Mylyn project and CEO of Tasktop Technologies, about the details, the causes, and the benefits of the project's reconfiguration.  Kersten explains that the single...

JavaFX Eclipse Plugin Goes Open Source   Exadel, the organization that makes a JavaFX plugin for Eclipse, recently launched exadel.org and released a new version of the plugin.  Version 1.2.2 includes a new JavaFX Script Wizard and an outline view with navigation.  Exadel has been promising to make the plugin open source and they have now announced that the source code is available under the...

iPad Coming to the US on April 3rd   

Ben Scholzen has started a serial about modern appication design on his blog. As base of this serial he is using his blog source for demonstration.

Continuing on from his previous articles on working with REST in Zend Framework applications (and making the endpoints for a web service) Matthew Weier O'Phinney has a new tutorial with the next logical step in the series, automatically responding to different content types in your application based on the content-type the client sends.