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Is IQueryable A Bad Choice For APIs?
Mark Seemann suggests in his article “IQueryable is Tight Coupling” that designing an API such that it exposes an IQueryable<T> interface is a bad idea for several reasons.
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Most Important Software Development Trends for 2012, as Voted by QCon London Attendees
This is a survey of the most important software development trends for 2012, as voted by the attendees of QCon London 2012. It includes technologies like Big Data, HTML5, Mobile, NoSQL, Continuous Integration, GPUs & Multicore, Cloud - PaaS, Cloud - SaaS, Cloud - IaaS, Asynchronous Technologies, Lean, Scrum, Google Dart.
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CQRS With Windows Azure
CQRS is gaining popularity as a pattern suited for applications with high scalability and performance needs. In his article “CQRS On Windows Azure”, Mark Seemann uses an example to explore how to use this pattern with Windows Azure as the platform.
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ZK Web Framework 6.0 Released: New Data Binding System
ZK Web Framework 6.0 released with a completely new data binding system, jQuery style selectors that run on the server, Servlet 3.0 Async support, new components and several other enhancements.
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Web API Design Book - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love
Apigee, provider of API products and technology for enterprises and developers, has announced the release of "Web API Design: Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love", a free e-book on designing Web APIs. The e-book is a collection of REST API design practices developed in collaboration with various API teams around the world undergoing the Apigee design workshop.
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WebSocket Support In Windows 8
As both the WebSocket Protocol and the WebSocket API gain full-fledged support in the Windows 8 Consumer preview, ASP.NET developers can start taking advantage of the bidirectional capabilities by using System.Web.WebSockets library.
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Go 1–The First Major Release of the Google Go Language
Go has reached the first major release, Google promising it will be stable for the years to come. YouTube uses Go in their core infrastructure.
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Frustration with the Role and Purpose of Architects on Software Projects
Is software architecture a poorly done and frequently neglected aspect of software projects? That’s the position put forth in a recent blog post by Simon Brown, an independent consultant and founder of CodingTheArchitecture.com. Brown contends that miscast architects and a casual approach to architecture on agile projects have contributed to the poor state of the architecture discipline.
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ZeroMQ Forked by its Creators
Martin Sustrik and Martin Lucina, creators of the original ZeroMQ, have decided to regain control of the project by forking it into a new project called Crossroads I/O. This report covers a brief history of ZeroMQ and its predecessor AMQP.
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Security vulnerabilities with HTML5 (WebSockets)?
Lori Macvittie recently raised concerns about WebSockets vulnerabilities to viruses and malware due to the removal of HTTP headers and MIME types. Given other reported security issues with the protocol and implementations, is it time to step back and consider what a world based on WebSockets should look like?
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LLBLGen Pro 3.5 Adds OData and SQL Server 2012 Support, Designer Improvements
Version 3.5 of the ORM tool LLBLGen Pro was released this week, and includes updates to Entity Framework and NHibernate functionality, designer improvements, and several updates to the runtime, such as support for OData and SQL Server 2012.
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How Heroku Manages High Availability - QCon London Talk summary
Mark McGranaghan gave his talk about "High Availability at Heroku" at QCon London 2012. His most important points and take-aways are summarized in this report.
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Thoughtworks Technology Radar March 2012
ThoughtWorks recently published the latest update to its Technology Radar; a report produced to help technology decision makers understand emerging trends in software development techniques, tools, languages and platforms. There are some interesting observations of interest to Agile software development teams.
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A New Survey Outlines the Trends in Mobile Development for 2012
A new Appcelerator/IDC report concludes: HTML5 becomes quite important for mobile developers, Google is catching up with Facebook, iOS is doing well, Android slips, WP7 still interesting, BlackBerry is down, and when it comes to cloud services developers are interested in location and notifications.
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Adobe Is Distributing Cordova under the PhoneGap Brand
Adobe will continue offering PhoneGap as a Cordova distribution along with PhoneGap Build and Adobe Shadow.