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AutoUpdater.NET: An Easy to Use Alternative to ClickOnce
For applications distributed outside of the Windows Store, having an update mechanism is crucial. For roughly a decade ClickOnce was the standard approach used for .NET applications, but many still find it hard to customize and troubleshoot. So alternatives such as Ravi Patel’s AutoUpdater.NET were developed.
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RubyMotion Releases Android Public Beta
RubyMotion recently announced that its Android Support had entered public beta, which should allow early adopters to get started now developing for the Android platform. RubyMotion is a terminal based toolchain used to create native iOS, Mac, and now with this beta version, Android applications, using the popular Ruby language and tools.
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Java One - Final Day and Community Keynote
Summary of the JavaOne 2014 Community Keynote, including material dropped from the opening keynote.
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JavaOne Press Panel - Java EE and IoT
Oracle execs discuss developments and roadmap in Java EE and Internet of Things
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Emerging Languages: A Look at The Last Five Years
In a recent article, Alex Payne, organizer of the Emerging Languages Camp, provides insight on how the language landscape has changed in the last five years and how it might change in future. InfoQ has talked with him.
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JavaOne Press Panel - Community and Java SE
Oracle execs hail community involvement in success and adoption of Java 8, announce better security features, but small number of new features.
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The Basics of Event Sourcing and Some CQRS
State transitions are an important part of our problem space and should be modelled within our domain, Greg Young states in a recent presentation focusing on basic event sourcing and how CQRS fits in.
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AWS Adds Hooks Into Expanded Auto Scaling Lifecycle
Amazon Web Services recently added several features to its Auto Scaling service to improve control over the managed Amazon EC2 instances. It is now possible to hook into the pending and terminating lifecycle state transitions to perform custom operations, which is also available for in service instances via a new standby state. The DetachInstances API now allows to remove instances from a group.
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JavaOne 2014 - Day One and Eclipse IoT Announcement
Late running caused considerable disruption of JavaOne's opening keynotes. Eclipse have made a major IoT announcement.
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Apache Drill Included in MapR Latest Distribution Release
MapR recently announced including Apache Drill in its latest release of MapR distribution. Apache Drill is the open source version of Google’s Dremel. Dremel is the infrastructure on which BigQuery is based upon. Drill is offering a low latency SQL-on-Hadoop interface. While this puts it in the same space as several other technologies around Hadoop, Drill has some unique characteristics setting it
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Amazon Releases Official AWS Mobile SDK 2
After a few months spent in Developer Preview, the Amazon Web Services Mobile SDK version 2 is ready for general development. According to Amazon, the final release takes into account feedback received from developers during the preview in order to improve the SDK with some new features.
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MySQL Offers a REST API
A prototype of MySQL 5.7 is shipping with an optional component called the MySQL HTTP Plugin. This plugin allows direct access to MySQL via a REST over HTTP interface, eliminating the need for a middle-tier server or database specific drivers.
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Nvidia Introduces cuDNN, a CUDA-based library for Deep Neural Networks
Nvidia earlier this month released cuDNN, a set of optimized low-level primitives to boost the processing speed of deep neural networks (DNN) on CUDA compatible GPUs. The company intends to help developers harness the power of graphics processing units for deep learning applications.
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Netflix's Chaos Engineering to Advance Failure Injection
"Chaos Engineering", a term recently coined by Netflix, is an umbrella that embraces all Netflix's activities on controlled failure injection. Bruce Wong, Engineering Manager of Chaos Engineering at Netflix, wrote about what Chaos Engineering is, its aims, and the roadmap to achieve them. InfoQ reached Bruce to learn more.
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CloudBees Exit PaaS Business, Resign JCP Executive Committee Seat
CloudBees have announced they are exiting the PAAS business to focus on Enterprise Jenkins. With this new focus, they have resigned from the Java Community Process Executive Committee.