BEA.Participate.08; Oracle and BEA Confluence Continued

May 13 2008

BEA.Participate.08 is in full swing. The user conference will finish on Thursday morning. Visit the BEA.Participate.08 Blog for posts from the conference, and check back to our own Dev2Dev Blogs for posts from individuals who are attending the conference... read more

BEA.Participate.08 Is Underway; Kaizen & BPM

May 12 2008

BEA.Participate.08 is now underway, in Chicago, Illinois. The conference sessions and keynotes get started Tuesday morning, and run through Thursday morning. If you aren't able to attend, there are still ways to follow the activity. The BEA.Participate.08 Blog is a good starting point. read more

Confluence of BEA and Oracle Developer Communities Begins

May 07 2008

Over on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN), OTN Editor-in-Chief Justin Kestelyn expressed his excitement about the confluence of the BEA and Oracle developer communities in his post "Sunrise: The BEA and Oracle Developer Communities Come Together". Justin notes that Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch are actually quite similar to OTN in terms… read more

BEA.Participate.08 Is Next Week

May 07 2008

People in the Arch2Arch and Dev2Dev communities have been talking about BEA.Participate.08 for months. Now, it's about to happen (next week, May 12-15, in Chicago, Illinois). BEA.Participate is "a celebration of innovation... read more

Web Service Security; WS-Reliable Messaging; Dev2Dev Survey (Upcoming)

April 30 2008

This week's Dev2Dev Blogs offer a particularly rich assortment of posts, including James Bayer's "Using X.509 Certificates for Identity Propagation with Web Service Security" and Gilbert Pilz's "Replay Reconsidered" (about WS-Reliable Messaging). ... Also of note: we are putting the finishing touches on the content for the third annual… read more

Web 2.0 Technologies and Business Information; Krugle

April 30 2008

This week's Arch2Arch blog by Peter Laird has got me thinking about Twitter and, in general, Web 2.0 and business. Twitter is the social networking "platform" that lets people post messages of up to 140 characters in length. People can subscribe to other people's Twitter feeds... It's a way… read more

CodeShare Krugle Code Search; Platform 10.2 Evaluation Guide; Enterprise RIA

April 23 2008

I have two important bits of news to talk about right away in this post. First, CodeShare now offers the capability for submitted code to be indexed and made searchable by Krugle, the code search engine. For details... read more

Hello! (from the New Arch2Arch Editor)

April 23 2008

Hi. As I mentioned in my first personal post last week, I am taking over for your original Arch2Arch editor-in-chief Jon Mountjoy, who has moved on to a new position. I'm excited about joining the Arch2Arch community... read more

Hello! (my First Dev2Dev Editor's post)

April 17 2008

My first Dev2Dev Editor's post: brief introduction, Bi-annual Framework Survey, blogs on AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 and Event Server Tools 2.1, new AquaLogic education opportunity, new security advisory. read more

Hello! (from the New Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch Editor-in-Chief)

April 15 2008

Hi! I'm Kevin Farnham, the new editor-in-chief for Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch. I'm taking over from the previous editor, Jon Mountjoy, who has decided to move on to a new endeavor. I learned a lot from Jon during the past couple years, as I worked with him at O'Reilly Media. I... read more

New Framewave Library Offers Image and Signal Processing Tuned for Multicore

February 25 2008

I'm typically logged into the Threading Building Blocks IRC channel (#tbb on FreeNode.net IRC). Last week, a community member noticed AMD's new open source initiative, Framewave. He took a quick look at the project, and came back to tell us that,... read more

Microsoft's New Interoperability and Open Source Software

February 22 2008

Microsoft's announcement of "broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for developers, partners, customers and competitors" is certainly an interesting development. Although most of... read more

Threading Building Blocks Packaged into Ubuntu Hardy Heron

February 22 2008

The spread of Threading Building Blocks (TBB) into Linux distributions is gaining momentum: TBB will be packaged into the upcoming Ubuntu Hardy Heron release. If you're not familiar with TBB -- it's an open source C++ template library that... read more

ParallelFX: Promising, But Too Late?

December 02 2007

Microsoft’s “Parallel Extensions to the .NET FX CTP” announcement was a bit of a surprise to me. At OSCON in July, I found the presentations given by Simon Peyton-Jones (Microsoft Research) on Haskell and transactional memory to be highly interesting. I was actually attending OSCON to participate in the launch… read more

Concurrency Learning Curve

November 25 2007

The necessity for applications to utilize the multiple processing cores that are available on modern PCs is increasingly a topic of conversation. It’s recognized that the old formula of “faster processors will keep my increasingly complex application humming along” will no longer work. Instead, applications that utilize the multiple processing… read more