iTrinegy AppQoS LIVE! provides application performance monitoring within a single CD/USB disk and is designed to bring the power of a dedicated appliance-based monitor to your computer.

The RubyMine IDE offers advanced support for Ruby on Rails coding, Graphical Ruby and Rails Debugger, tight VCS integration and a GUI-based test runner.

The programme for the third annual Software Architect conference, which takes place in London at the end of September, has been announced.

JetBrains’ TeamCity lets you set up a build server for your projects within minutes and provides out of the box continuous unit testing, code quality analysis, and early reporting on build problems.

Progress Actional 8.0 Enterprise is intended to be used to detect and deal with problems and exceptions that disrupt business transactions.

InterSystems has added enterprise SOA features to its Ensemble Rapid Integration and Development Platform.

How can you create a multitude of instances without having to pay the cost of instantiating each object? Garfield Moore introduces and discusses an appropriate design pattern.

Puzzled by WF? Wonder what it’s all for? Richard Blewett takes the mystery out of Windows Workflow.

Azure is Microsoft’s new programming paradigm, and Harry Fairhead investigates how much cloud there is in cloud computing.

Neal Ford argues that small is still beautiful, and if you are writing long methods then it’s time to think “refactor”

The composites and visitors patterns can help to make your iterators simpler and more robust. Dave Wheeler explains how it all fits together.

A set of common architectural modules, that every system should have.