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Meteor 1.4 Release Updates Node and MongoDB
Version 1.4 of Meteor has been released, with major updates to Node and MongoDB. Zoltan Olah, Meteor's director of customer success, said the release "focuses on long term stability for the platform, continues our work to align Meteor with the wider JavaScript ecosystem, and positions us to work closer with the community than ever before."
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Continuous Updating Tool VersionEye Now Open Source
VersionEye open-sourced its eponymous continuous integration tool that helps with updated project dependencies. Coined "continuous updating", the tool provides update notifications, licence checking and security vulnerabilities information for many software libraries. By open-sourcing the software, VersionEye founder Robert Reiz intends to increase trust and transparency of the code base.
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Visual Studio Code 1.3 Finally Adds Tabs
Microsoft has released version 1.3 of their cross-platform Visual Studio Code. The new version now supports tabs and many other features. Additionally, the Monaco code editor that VS Code is built upon has been extracted and is now available as a stand-alone package.
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HyperDev Spins Up New Web Apps with No Effort
Fog Creek Software has released a new web-based tool to create a new web app, live on the internet, without any of the chores normally associated with creating a new app. Called HyperDev, it allows for collaborative front- and back-end development using Node.js.
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Node.js 6.0 Supports 93% of ES2015
Node.js 6.0 has been released, becoming the new current version. It comes with performance improvements, better test and documentation coverage, better security and wide support for ES2015.
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How Node Replaced Macros in Microsoft Word
Writing extensions for Word used to be handled by BASIC. Now, the language of choice is JavaScript and the platform Node.
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Npm Updates Policy on Removing Packages
Npm has issued an updated policy on what happens when a user wants to remove one of their packages from the publishing system.
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Node.js Available in Beta on Google App Engine, Sort Of
Google has announced that node.js is available in beta on App Engine. However, unlike the pure PAAS offerings on App Engine, the node.js functionality uses their App Engine flexible environment. This hybrid environment wraps the app up in a Docker image and manages the VMs automatically.
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Deploying Node.js Microservices to AWS Lambda with Claudia.js: Q&A with Author Gojko Adzic
InfoQ recently sat down with Gojko Adzic and discussed his latest project, Claudia.js, a JavaScript tool that assists with the deployment of Node.js microservice applications to Amazon Web Service (AWS) Lambda. Claudia.js enables the deployment of AWS Lambda functions and Web APIs using a single command, and automates several complicated tasks such as logging.
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Google Introduces Cloud Functions
Google has launched a new service called Cloud Functions in alpha. This service allows one to create small JavaScript functions that automatically respond to cloud events without requiring user’s intervention, configuring a runtime and executing it, or scaling it to multiple machines.
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Wia Provides Cloud Infrastructure for IoT
Wia is a cloud platform that aims to provide developers with a scalable and powerful backend for their Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. According to Conall Laverty, founder and CEO at Wia, that will enable the creation of fully fledged, production ready solutions without worrying about server management, data replication, and storage. InfoQ has spoken with Laverty.
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Security Release for DOS Vulnerability in Node.js
The Node Foundation has announced vulnerabilities in versions of Node.js from v0.12.x through to v5.x "whereby an external attacker can cause a denial of service."
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New Releases: Ceylon 1.2, Node.js 5.0 and Atom 1.1
Ceylon, Node.js and Atom have all seen stable upgrades this week, and we have decided to write a common post covering most notable features and enhancements that come with these new versions.
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Node.js 4.2 "Argon" Released Under Long Term Support Plan
The Node.js Foundation have released Argon, the first Node.js release covered under the Long Term Support plan.
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IBM to Open Source 50 Projects
IBM has announced a new web portal called developerWorks Open, bringing together various projects they are open sourcing. The projects cover many domains including Analytics, Cloud, IoT, Mobile, Security, Social, Watson and others. So far, IBM has open sourced about 30 projects, and they plan to increase the number up to 50 by the end of the year, and others may come in the future.