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Red Hat Adds Commercial Public Cloud Offering to OpenShift PaaS
Red Hat OpenShift, the open source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), introduced a new cloud-hosted commercial edition called OpenShift Online. This gives Red Hat both a private and public edition of OpenShift and fits into Red Hat’s broader strategy of delivering a top-down application stack for the modern enterprise data center.
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Build Your Own IDE with Gemini
Do you need your own IDE for your project’s domain specific language? One option is Visual Studio Shell, but that is often far too massive to deploy and can be difficult to work with. A lightweight alternative is the Gemini framework by Tim Jones.
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Evaluating Porting Efforts with Xamarin Mobility Scanner
Xamarin has announced the availability of Xamarin Mobility Scanner, a free online service for scanning .NET libraries in order to evaluate the effort needed to port them to Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Windows Store.
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Licensing Restrictions Plague the new Portable Class Libraries
Microsoft has been releasing Portable Class Library versions of some really important libraries including the BCL Portability Pack, Async, Stream Compression and ZIP Archives, and Microsoft HTTP Client Libraries. And with the newest version of Mono also supporting PCL, one would think this would be a huge win for cross-platform developers. But that’s not the case.
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Matthew Kaufman on why Skype is Dropping Peer-to-Peer
In the wake of the NSA revelations in the United States, Skype’s decision to switch from a peer-to-peer network to a server-based network has raised some eyebrows. In a recent email Matthew Kaufman, principal architect of Skype, explained why the change was necessary.
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WSO2 Donates Stratos to the Apache Foundation
Apache Stratos has entered incubation with contributors from Cisco, NASA, Citrix and Engine Yard, among others. WSO2 still keeps their open source middleware under their control.
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DB2 Express Now Offers 16 GB of RAM
IBM has relaxed the memory restrictions on the free version of their flagship database. Version 10.5 of DB2 Express-C can now use up to 16 GB of RAM. The product already allowed for unlimited database sizes on disc but is limited to a single socket (2 cores).
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RESTful Web Services Framework Jersey 2.0 Released, Implementing JAX-RS 2.0 Specification
Final version of the RESTful Web Services Framework Jersey 2.0 was recently released. New features includes a Client API, Hypermedia support, Filters and interceptors, and support for asynchronous Clients and Services. Jersey 2.0 is a reference implementation of the JAX-RS 2.0 API Specification, (JSR 339), released late May.
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Meet Nanoko: a Javascript SOA Platform and Build Process
Built by Ubidreams and Dynamis Technologies, Nanoko is a Javascript build process designed to provide modularity and reusability, complementing existing tools instead of reinventing them.
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Multi-Factor Authentication For Windows Azure Hosted Apps
Microsoft recently announced preview of Multi-Factor Authentication in Windows Azure. This can be enabled for Windows Azure Management portal, Microsoft Online Services such as Office 365, as well as custom applications.
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The Uncertain Future of NHibernate
For many years NHibernate reigned as the premier ORM for the .NET framework and despite the successes of Entity Framework many people still consider it their first choice for new projects. But a lack of developers may severely hamper its future.
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Stratos 2.0 Supports Any Runtime and 30 IaaS
WSO2 has announced today Stratos 2.0, introducing a number of new features, the most important being: support for deploying runtimes written in any language through the use of cartridges, and the possibility to run their PaaS on multiple infrastructures via JClouds.
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MapReduce with ActorFx
A new preview of ActorFx has been released with support for MapReduce-type algorithms.
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Greg Young on Documents and Processes as an Alternative to Events
Not all systems are based on events or facts. In some problem spaces events make complete sense; they are about facts that are happening over periods of time. But a lot of systems are instead focused on information that flow through a process, Greg Young explained at DDD Exchange Day in London last week, using handling of a mortgage application inside a bank as an example.
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Experiences from Educational Technology Startups
Educational technology is developing itself, and startups are entering markets with new apps and creative commons content. Speakers shared their experiences on education and gaming and finding the right fit for an EdTech startup, at the GOTO Amsterdam 2013 conference.