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Ruby VM Roundup: Ruby 1.9.1 Preview 1, Rubinius Moves To C++ VM
Ruby 1.9.1 Preview 1 is now out, which marks a freeze on language features and most other items, with a final release of 1.9.1 scheduled for late January 2009. Ruby 1.9.1 is planned to be the first stable 1.9.x release. Also: the C++ branch of Rubinius has been promoted as the default branch.
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Interview: Ted Neward on Present and Past Languages
In this interview filmed during QCon London 2008, Ted Neward, author of "Effective Enterprise Java", talks about languages, statical, dynamical, objectual or functional. He dives into Java, C#, C++, Haskell, Scala, VB, and Lisp, to name some of them, comparing the benefits and disadvantages of using one or another.
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Announcing: New Google C++ Testing Framework
The folks at Google have recently open-sourced their xUnit-based testing framework for C++ development. The framework is said by project developer Zhanyong Wan to have been in use internally at Google for years by thousands of their C++ developers.cc
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Interview: Randy Shoup Discusses the eBay Architecture
In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2007, Randy Shoup discusses the architecture of eBay. Topics discussed include eBay's architectural principles, horizontal and vertical partitioning, ACID vs. BASE, handling data inconsistency, distributed caching, updating eBay on the fly, architectural and coding standards, eBay's search infrastructure, grid computing, and SOA.
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Facebook Chat Architecture
An under the covers look at the Facebook Chat architecture. "The secret for going from zero to seventy million users overnight is to avoid doing it all in one fell swoop."
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APIFinder - Your Guide to APIs
Developers today are constantly creating applications that consume services of other web sites. Consuming these services requires figuring out and understanding the sometimes complex Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
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Major IntelliSense Changes Planned for VC++ 10
Major changes are planned for IntelliSense in Visual C++ 10. These include a faster, more reliant parser and replacing the opaque NCB file with a SQL Server Compact database that can be browsed directly.
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QCon Panel: What will the Future of Java Development Be?
In this panel from QCon San Francisco, Joshua Bloch, Chet Haase, Rod Johnson, Erik Meijer and Charles Nutter discussed and debated the future of the Java language and APIs based upon the lessons we have learned from the past. Topics included static versus dynamic languages, removing code from Java, forking the JVM, and the next big programming language.
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Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta Now Downloadable
The Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack beta is available for download. The Feature Pack extends the VC++ Libraries which come with Visual Studio 2008.
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.NET Compact Announced for Symbian OS
Red Five Labs is bringing the .NET Compact Framework to S60 and the Symbian OS. Symbian is the market leader for smart phone operating systems. In 1995, S60 alone had a 58% market share. Overall, 72% of devices were running S60 or some other variant of Symbian.
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Stephan T. Lavavej on the future of C++
On the Microsoft Visual C++ blog Stephan T. Lavavej, a library developer, speculates about the future of the C++ language.
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Catching up with Phoenix
This past year Microsoft introduced Phoenix a project aimed at transforming the traditional blackbox compiler into a transparent one.
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Microsoft Publicly Offers Visual Studio Hotfixes
A common complaint is that Microsoft restricts access to Visual Studio hotfixes. While available for free, they do require a call to customer support. In a pilot program, Microsoft has decided to release their most common hot fixes through Microsoft Connect.
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VS 2005 SP 1 Beta 1.0 Released
Microsoft has announced the release of the first beta of the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1. Currently it can only be downloaded via the Microsoft Connect site. It is currently available in English and Japanese. The final version is expected to be available in 3 to 4 months.