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The Third Order of Order
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Testing Velocity Part 2 - Why do we test?
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Aptana Jaxer: ser ver-side Ajax
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App Engine and Java
The world is now split into Python pro grammers, making funny 'Goo' noises over App Engine, and every
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Bill Roth's Blog

Another Chapter Begins
At the end of this week, I will no longer be employed by BEA Systems. It has been a great 4 years working at BEA, and undoubtedly the highlight of my career thus far. I have enjoyed the opportunity to write for the BEA developer community, and to lea
* JRockit Mission Control Now On Eclipse! *
JRockit Mission Control is now available via BEA's Eclipse Update Site.
** Fastest Ever: Workshop 10.2 released **
Workshop 10.2 is available now. Its the fastest and highest quality product we've ever produced.
BEA World Shanghai, Day 2
Reporting live from the Keynotes at BEA World 2007 Shanghai
BEA World Shanghai, Day 1
The happenings in Shanghai for BEA World China 2007.
Semantics at Gilbane
Ruminations on Semantics at the Gilbane Content Management Conference
We need your help. Is UML important?
Is UML important? Please take a short survey to give us your opinion.
What Programming Frameworks Are You Using?
It's time again for our semi-annual BEA Workshop Framework survey. Could you help us out by answering a few short questions on what development frameworks you are using? Could you please follow this link and take the survey? One respondent...
** BEA Workshop Studio NOW WITH FLEX! **
The BEA Workshop bundle with Adobe Flex is now available. (Updated with Example)
Sun's Conflated Benchmark
File this in the "Just So You Know" category. Sun recently announced a new benchmark from their app server. It is an interesting announcement, but you need to read what they say carefully. First off, the are conflating Glassfish with...
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SOA World - HP Delivers!
HP News Desk wrote: Somewhere out there an ode is being written to HP - and some lady investor is explaining to her husband about her abiding crush on HP's CEO, the 'Great Deliverer'
HP May Accidentally Kill Black Duck & Palamida
Kirstan Vandersluis wrote: HP and its FOSSology initiative further legitimizes open source use for the large corporation. This is good news for Black Duck and Palamida, as they depend on open source adoption for market growth. Their business model must evolve, though, just ...
Oracle Buys BEA, Sun Buys MySQL: What's the Future for Developers?
Dean wrote: The future ? More users and developers will look at Open Source databases such as Ingres.
HP Still Playing Catch Me If You Can
HP News Desk wrote: If you listen to IDC, PCs were up a solid but still less-than-expected 15.5% worldwide in Q4. If you listen to Gartner the number was 13.1%.
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