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In-Memory Databases Reaching Tipping Point
In-Memory Databases are very near to becoming widely adopted, says David Campbell of Microsoft in his article “The coming in-memory database tipping point”. He also explains Microsoft’s strategy around this space.
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The Internet Hall of Fame
The Internet Society has awarded a number of 33 pioneers and luminaries for outstanding contribution to the creation and the development of the Internet.
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Dempsy – a New Real-time Framework for Processing BigData
A new open source project – Dempsy adds one more option for people trying to do real time processing of big data. Comparable to Storm and S4 Dempsy is most applicable to near real time stream processing where latency is more important than guaranteed delivery.
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QCon New York Update: New HTML5, Mobile, JavaScript Sessions Published
In addition to dedicated conference tracks on Java, Agile, Cloud Computing, Concurrency, Big Data & NoSQL, Architectural Case Studies and others, QCon New York will feature a wide range of sessions and tutorials covering cross-platform mobile development. The first annual QCon New York 2012 which will take place at the New York Marriott on June 18-22, 2012. Save $450 if you register by Apr 27th.
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Looking Back at Looking Ahead, Gloom for Agile in 2012?
Many predictions for agile in 2012 were gloomy, with themes including adoptions by organizations that don’t know how, resulting in a lack of addressing management impact across teams and engineering practices in teams. With nearly four months of hindsight, readers can make their own judgments while remaining diligent so that 2012 won’t end gloomy.
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The Impact of Software Testing on Embedded Systems
In its recent issue the Chip Design Magazine points out that the huge growth of portable and wireless systems combined with the increasing relevance of software in embedded systems poses a challenge. Quality issues need special attention, especially in safety-critical systems. This is why software test tools for software systems will become increasingly important.
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Managed Extensibility Framework 2: Upcoming Changes for .NET 4.5
Version 2 of Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), a framework for extending .NET applications, is currently in Preview mode, and the final release will be part of .NET Framework 4.5. Expected enhancements in Version 2 include improvements to the RegistrationBuilder API, attribute-less registration, and better control over object lifetime.
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Jack Tramiel's Impact on the IT Industry
InfoQ takes a look back at the life and career of Jack Tramiel, who died on April 8 2012 at the age of 83. As the founder of Commodore Business Machines, Tramiel made a huge contribution to the IT industry, arguably rivalling that of Steve Jobs.
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WCF 5.0 – Vocabularies, Actions And Improved Spatial Support
Microsoft recently announced RTM release of WCF Data Services 5.0 – this includes several new features to support OData v3 such as Vocabularies, Actions, new Spatial Primitives and several updates to OData libraries.
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Gartner: Best and Worst EA and Application Architecture Practices
A Gartner webinar discusses the best and worst practices in enterprise and application architecture.
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Command Pattern In .NET
In Command Pattern, an object is used to represent and encapsulate all the information needed to call the method at a later time – method name, object that owns the method and values for the parameters. In the first part of an article series “The Command Pattern In .NET”, Eric Vogel walks through using the ICommand interface in the context of WPF applications.
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Future of Cloud Security Assessments: Microsoft Leads with Public Registrations on CSA
Microsoft has registered security assessments for Office 365, Windows Azure and Dynamics CRM for public consumption on the cloud security alliance's security registry, STAR. Microsoft is the first major service provider to register their assessments at a time when security concerns in the public cloud space continue to grow.
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EF Power Tools Beta 2 Introduces New Tools and Improved EF5 Support
Microsoft has announced a new release of EF Power Tools, which provide additional design-time tools for working with Entity Framework. This release introduces the ability to Generate Views and use T4 templates for reverse-engineered code, and includes improved support for Entity Framework 5.
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Cloud Foundry Celebrates First Anniversary By Highlighting Its Community
At an VMware-hosted event in Palo Alto, the Cloud Foundry team summarized their first year as an open source, multi-language Platform as a Service (PaaS). VMware CTO Steve Herrod pointed to the project’s strong developer adoption and thriving ecosystem as proof that this platform has staying power.
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New Asynchronous Features Enhance .NET Framework 4.5
.NET Framework 4.5 Beta not only brings the Async/Await keywords and language simplifications to C# and Visual Basic, but also adds asynchronous methods to several common I/O and data access functions. New asynchronous features are available in ASP.NET 4.5, WCF, and WPF as well.