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Java Kicks Ruby on Rails in the Butt

This article tries to demonstrate that Java can be more productive than Ruby. We are going to develop the same application of the article Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited (part 1 [1] and part 2 [2]) but using POJO [3]s annotated with JPA [4] and a Model Driven Framework, OpenXava [5] in this case. The result is that with less code, and less time you obtain a more powerful application. Ruby and rails: The regressive framework Ruby on rails [6] is so elegant, so easy, so productive. I cannot avoid read and heard continuously these comments. For example, the article Rolling with ... (more)

Spring Certification Training in Rome

Comtaste, the italian Spring Training Center, is organizing and hosting a Spring Certification course in Rome.  This is a great opportunity to learn more and get certified on Spring framework that is now more integrated in BlazeDS and Livecycle DS. In fact SpringSource and Adobe started a partnership with the goal of making easy the integration between Spring and BlazeDS. Child of this par... (more)

Finishing a book and got an offer to write a new one

I'm finishing writing a book for O'Reilly "Enterprise Development with Flex". It's my 6th one.  Yesterday, I got an email from a person asking if I'd like to write a new book on software. Here's what came to my mind ... (more)

Adobe Flex 4 Goes to Public Beta

Many Flex and Flash developers were waiting for these news for a year. The public Beta 1 of new Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and Flex 4 SDK (previously codenamed Gumbo) has been released by Adobe. First, about the name change. What used to be known as Flex Builder is Flash Builder now. The reason for such re-branding is clear to me.  Adobe wants separation between free open source softw... (more)

Conference News & Updates
By RIA News Desk
Adobe Air, AJAX and AJAX Push, BlazeDS, Browser Issues, Cloud Computing, Comet, Developer Productivity, DotNetNuke, EC2, Enterprise RIA, Flex, HTML5, IE8, Information Dashboards, JavaScript 2, Java Servlet 3.0, Mashups, Rich Clients, Ruby on Rails, Silverlight, Thin Clients - a round-up of the Themes & Topics due to be discussed at the 7th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo, being held June 22-23, 2009 at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.
By Cloud News Desk
With an ever-increasing number of companies now buying computing, storage, and networking power as they need it from the cloud, it is hardly surprising that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is going from strength to strength. The Call for Papers for the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, on November 2- 4, 2009, is now open.
By Virtualization News
Now held three times a year, in New York, Prague, and Silicon Valley, the organizing principle of each International Virtualization Conference & Expo remains the same: our aim is to ensure, through an intense and carefully chosen program of technical and strategic breakout sessions, that attending delegates leave each Conference with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging Virtualization, helping them to maximize performance, minimize cost and improve the efficiency and flexibility of their Enterprise IT endeavors.
SYS-CON Events announced that Software AG was named "Gold Sponsor" of the upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2009 East. The 15th International SOA World Conference will take place June 22-23, 2009, in New York City. This June's SOA World, which is the world's number one longest-running SOA event, will feature parallel content-rich tracks reflecting the worldwide adoption of the distributed computing paradigm, in which web services are deployed through specific service-oriented architectures.
SYS-CON Events announced today the latest event in its innovative series of real-world technology conferences, Government IT Conference & Expo, a two-day deep dive into the new wave of Internet-based technologies that are changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and utilize IT. GovITExpo, which is being held October 5-6, 2009 in Washington, DC, builds on the success of SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo, the fastest-growing conference anywhere in the world devoted to the delivery of massively scalable IT as a service using Internet technologies.
By Pat Romanski
SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held on March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City, attracted more than 40 sponsors with over 1,300 delegates, a record attendance, up from the last Cloud Computing Expo in San Jose, CA. Cloud Computing, through which massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided as a service using Internet technologies, has many interpreters just now - and many interpretations. The next event, Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Europe will take place, May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing. Enjoy the photo album of the show, which is updated daily.
By Cloud News Desk
SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Europe, held on May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic, is the first major cloud event in Europe and is co-located with SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference Europe 2009. The next event is the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, Santa Clara, CA, November 2-4, 2009, co-located with the the 7th International Virtualization Conference & Expo.
By SOA News Desk
SYS-CON Events announced that Jeremy Deane, Technical Architect of Collaborative Consulting, will be presenting at the upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2009 East, June 22-23, 2009, in New York City. His session, entitled "Resource-Oriented Enterprise Service Bus," will review the key concepts of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Resource-Oriented Architecture. Then, a Resource-Oriented ESB, and several service examples will be presented using 1060 Research's NetKernel.