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Application Lifecycle Management in Team Foundation Server 11
Team Foundation Server 11 has added many features in the area of Application Lifecycle Management. Some of the highlights include support for code reviews, iterations/sprints, resource allocation, third part testing frameworks, and a much more capable dependency graph.
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Windows Azure News: Support for Windows 8, SDK 1.5, Storage Replication and Others
Microsoft has announced at the BUILD conference a number of new tools for developing applications that interact with the cloud: Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8, Windows Azure SDK 1.5, Windows Azure Marketplace, Replication for Windows Azure Storage, Service Bus September Release, and Windows Azure Service Management API.
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New in RAD Studio XE2: Multiplatform, Native iOS&Android, HD&3D Animation, and Cloud
Embarcadero is preparing a new release of their RAD Studio XE2 tools which includes Delphi XE2, C++Builder XE2, RADPHP XE2, and Prism XE2, at exactly one year after the initial launch of the XE line on August 30, 2010. This release has many new features, the most interesting being support for cross-platform development, Windows 64-bit, Amazon Cloud API, Native Android and iOS, and HD&3D animation.
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LightSwitch 2011: Truly "Coding Optional"?
Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011, the development tool intended to help non-developers produce business applications, was released earlier this month. Ever since the beta release last year, it has been the subject of some debate over the intended audience for the product.
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"DVR For Java", Preview The Chronon Recording Server
Chronon Systems has announced the beta availability of their new Chronon Recording Server, a "remote control" component of sorts for their Chronon toolsuite. With it you can record the internal state of your java application while it runs, wherever it runs, then later "play back" the entire program execution to examine or debug. Chronon Systems says its "DVR for Java".
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Thoughtworks Technology Radar July 2011
ThoughtWorks recently published its Technology Radar; a report to help technology leaders understand emerging technologies, identify strategic platforms and tools and prepare their organizations for them.
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Rapid Business Application Development with Visual Studio LightSwitch
Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is a simplified development tool intended to speed up the creation of custom business applications. It includes pre-built components, templates, and predefined data types for the most common business needs, and allows developers to produce form-driven applications for either desktop use or deployment to the cloud.
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Gorilla Logic Release FlexMonkey 5, Open Source Testing Tool for Adobe Flex and AIR
Gorilla Logic have today announced the availability of FlexMonkey 5, their open source automated testing tool for Adobe Flex and AIR.
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Mashery Redefines API Documentation with Interactive I/O Docs
Mashery introduces a new generation of API documentation tooling with I/O Docs. I/O Docs takes the drudgery out of verbose API docs and enlivens the experience through live API calls within the documentation. In this news item, we talk to Neil Mansilla to understand the motivation for building this tool, its current state and its future.
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Proposal for Eclipse-based Requirement Modeling Framework Released
Recently, a proposal for the Requirements Modeling Framework (RMF) has been officially released by eclipse.org. Vision is to have at least one clean-room implementation of the OMG ReqIF standard in form of an EMF model and some rudimentary tooling to edit these models.
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Eclipse Jubula: Automated Functional Testing Tool
The recent release of Eclipse Indigo includes Jubula, an automated functional testing tool for Java and HTML applications. Tests are created via drag and drop of built-in test libraries, instead of application recording or test programming.
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Developers Can Get a Taste of Mango with WP SDK 7.1 Beta 2
An early access program allows developers to install Mango on their devices using the just released WP SDK 7.1 Beta2.
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Janova and EdgeCase build Testing Tool in seven Months
The experts of the software company EdgeCase have recently assisted the Enterprise Architecture Company Janova from Ohio in building a Web-based, automated testing tool. The tool is provided as a Cloud-based application that enables users to define the test scripts used for Batch Processing in plain English. For its implementation the developers leveraged the programming language Ruby.
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Visual Studio Gets Better Support for HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
Following Microsoft’s announcement that Windows 8’ UI will be based on HTML5 and JavaScript, it is no surprise that Visual Studio 2010 has got an update polishing its HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 support: up-to-date W3C-based intellisense and validation for HTML5 and CSS3, plus Geolocation and DOM storage intellisense.
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Tools for Porting Android Apps to Windows Phone 7
Microsoft attracts Android developers to Windows Phone 7 (WP7) with an API mapping tool and a WP7 Guide.