Gavin King (the inventor of Hibernate) fired out a new language project called Ceylon (I suppose referring to the Tea versus the Java Café). I love new languages. I know a bit of them, and I work with Java form 1995, so I will do a deep review of this news…

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LINQBridge is a re-implementation of all the standard query operators in Framework 3.5's System.Linq.Enumerable class. It's designed to work with the C# 3.0 compiler, as used by Visual Studio 2008. LINQBridge comprises a LINQ to Objects API for running local queries. (It doesn't include an implementation of LINQ to SQL, nor LINQ to XML; a good compromise can be to force Framework 3.5 out to just the server machines, allowing LINQ to SQL to be used where it's needed most).

via linqbridge - Re-implementation of LINQ to Objects for .NET Framework 2.0

There are a lot of legacy project out of there. Some customer will ask you to add a simple .NET 2.0 web service to a big application, and they will not switch to C# 3.5 for that.

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Node.js is a Javascript application server based on Google V8 Javascript Engine. Node.js has a very good package manager these days, with a bunch of libraries on it. So it is the new buzz.

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jQuery 1.6 is now live and available for consumption! We’re quite proud of this release, it includes a major rewrite of the Attribute module and a number of performance improvements.

Please take this opportunity to thank members of the jQuery Team and the jQuery bug triage team for their help in getting this release out the door.

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Inspired by this excellent web post “Ruby or Python? Well, it depends...”,
I agree with it at 100%:

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F# is a Microsoft research Language. F# is riding the functional revenge way of the last years. F# is a mixed approach, because some variables can be modified. It borrows a lot of things from Haskell and OCaml  (Wikipedia dixit). F# is not used like Erlang or Haskell but it could be installed with Visual Studio 2010, and as a separate visual studio plug-in. If you need some functional stuff on your .NET architecture,  F# can be your friend.

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Inversion of Control (IoC) is a very good idea.

But as the clever Joel Spolsky  noted, sometimes you need to be a super-natural hero to use it:

… I try not to be judgemental (HAHA!), but I think that people who use IoC containers are (A) very smart and (B) lacking in empathy for people who aren't as smart as they are. Everything makes perfect sense to them, so they have trouble understanding that many ordinary programmers will find the concepts confusing. It's the curse of knowledge. The people who understand IoC containers have trouble believing that there are people who don't understand it. …

I have trouble using Spring in at least two projects. On the third, it was a disaster, because a single software-architect-guy keeps passing around the Spring context factory as method parameter, getting beans from it!
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At Gioorgi.com we are not a true cloud fan, and reality is going on to collect proofs for us…

On June 20, 2011, Dropbox had a serious security bug. It was possible to login to an account with “a wrong password”. Like to say Dropbox account system was naked, because “a small number of users[…] could have logged into an account without the correct password”!

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In the past week I learned Flask, a very young and promising  python framework. I have already learned Django, Cherrypy, Web2Py and TurboGears.

Anyway, if you are planning a medium sized project, I like to suggest you Flask, because of these feature:

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Because of the success of my article on java closure, I have decided to write another article on functional programming.

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