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...

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  

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   

I always believed in Subversion's potential and that it would be a wide improvement over the nightmare that was CVS, but I found out that, as Linus says, There is no way to do CVS right.References Reference:  Why I'm leaving Subversion for Git Mitchell Pronsc...

Facebook Going Public, But Not For a While   The WSJ has been talking with Facebook and gaining some early access to their plans for the future.  Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, confirmed that the company will eventually go public, but not anytime soon.  Mark is worried that going public will make the company less flexible.  Facebook also projects between $1.2 - $2 billion in...

The pattern of today is the Memento one, whose intent is storing the state of an Originator object without breaking its encapsulation, which typically consists in a set of private fields.References Reference:  Practical Php Patterns: Memento Mitchell Pronsc...

Verizon is Getting Nexus One and so is Europe   

Apple Fires First Shots at Android   

When users evaluate a piece of software they often look at the user interface, the capabilities, how efficiently the software runs on their system, and a host of other criteria.  Regardless of what the individual user’s points of interest are, the end goal of the evaluation is to answer a simple question: What’s in it for me?