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On Server-Side Performance, .NET 4.5, and Bing
With over 33% of the market share for US web searches, the servers that power Bing and Yahoo represent one of the largest .NET 4.5 RC applications in continuous production use. The close work between Microsoft’s Bing and .NET teams have resulted in a set of enhancements that should prove useful to anyone running large scale .NET servers.
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OmniFaces: A Utility Library for Java Server Faces
OmniFaces is a utility library attempting to ease JSF development for Enterprise applications. It offers several solutions for common issues encountered in JSF, including validation for component groups, a renderkit for HTML5, full Ajax exception handling and more. It complements existing JSF implementations such as ICEFaces, PrimeFaces and RichFaces.
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Community-Driven Research! A new service by InfoQ
With the launch of our first community research question on "What are the most valuable tools for HTML5", InfoQ is now providing a new service that we hope will provide you with up-to-date and bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviours that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Entity Framework Now Open Source
Microsoft has announced that they are making the Entity Framework open source. The product will continue to be fully supported, with the same development team. They also announced the roadmap for EF6, which includes task-based Async and new features for Code First development.
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Presentation: IASA’s Five Pillars of Architecture
In his online presentation “Five Pillars of IT Architecture” Jim Wilt, architect at Microsoft, introduced IASA's view on the foundation of architecture. The pillars IASA identified include business technology strategy, IT environment, quality attributes, design and human dynamics.
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Jigsaw Deferred until Java SE 9
Mark Reinhold has announced on his blog that the Java Jigsaw modularity proposal has been moved from inclusion in Java SE 8 and deferred into Java SE 9. This will allow Java SE 8 to be released on schedule in August 2013, whilst the modularity proposal can be refined with wider visibility for inclusion in August 2015's Java SE 9 release.
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Microsoft Brings Cloud Integration Services Onsite with Service Bus for Windows
This week, Microsoft released a beta of the Service Bus for Windows which has a subset of the functionality contained within the cloud-based Windows Azure Service Bus messaging engine. This is Microsoft’s first step towards delivering its rapidly-maturing cloud integration stack as a self-managed product.
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What's Upcoming in jQuery 1.8, 1.9 and 2.0, and the Removal of IE6/7/8 Support
The jQuery Core team has recently released jQuery 1.8 Beta 1. The GA release is expected July 2012. The jQuery Core team has also laid out their plans for the next versions of jQuery, versions 1.9 and 2.0, and talks about the removal of IE6/7/8 support.
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Qualcomm Gimbal: Creating Context-Aware Mobile Applications
Qualcomm Gimbal is a context awareness platform for Android and iOS enabling mobile developers to add context sensitive functionality to their applications. Basically, with Gimbal, an application will be able to push rich media notifications to a device based on user’s preferences, habits, location and time.
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Scrum Extensions "Suspended"
Scrum extensions were officially "suspended" by Scrum.org. InfoQ covers the story and dives deeper to find answers on this short lived attempt at providing context-aware scrum practices.
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IT Values Technologies Over Thought
Recently Cap Gemini's Steve Jones has written an article on how he believes that thinking about solutions to problems is less important these days than jumping on the latest hype bandwagon. Although he uses REST and Big Data as examples, he believes it goes beyond any single technology and that eventually IT will no longer belong to IT people.
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Presentation: Progressive Architectures at the Royal Bank of Scotland
In their presentation posted at InfoQ systems and data architects Ben Stopford, Farzad Pezeshkpour and Mark Atwell show how RBS leveraged new technologies in their architectures while facing difficult challenges such as regulation, competition and tighter budgets. They also need to cope with stringent technical challenges, for instance with efficiency and scalability.
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Loop: A Compact JVM Language for Multi-Core
As a programming language, Loop is compact JVM language influenced by Haskell, Scheme, Ruby and Erlang. It also tries to bring together the best features of functional programming and OO languages, in a consistent and pragmatic manner.
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Avoiding Downtime When Cloud Services Fail
Another AWS outage hit several large websites and their services last week. What can be done to avoid downtime? Architect for failover not just for scale.
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Node Gets Faster, More Stable
Node.js 0.8 is out. It is faster, more stable, has major improvements in the Cluster module, a new Domain module and a new build that depends on GYP.