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Kevin Montrose on the History and Mistakes of the StackExchange API
Creating a public API for an existing website is always a risky venture, and StackExchange’s open editing policy makes it even riskier than most. In a recent series of articles, Kevin Montrose talks about what decisions went into the StackExchange API and what lessons they learned along the way.
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Lack of Software Engineers Bears Risks
Although many products and solutions increasingly leverage software as an essential fundament, software engineers are becoming a rare species in Western countries. The problem with scarce availability of well-educated software engineers is that many companies require more engineers then they can get and if that gap widens, this could damage the leading edge of some companies.
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Google Native Client Makes Its Debut in Chrome 14
Google Native Client has been included in Chrome 14 Beta, on its way to become a technology supported in production.
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Windows Server AppFabric adds Read-Through and Write-Behind Support
The new Read-Through and Write-Behind support in AppFabric 1.1 allow developers to improve performance while at the same time reduce the complexity of their applications. This is done by moving the logic for reading from and writing to the database into the caching server itself. Other improvements include lazy-loading of session state information and support for ASP.NET output caching.
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Thoughtworks Technology Radar July 2011
ThoughtWorks recently published its Technology Radar; a report to help technology leaders understand emerging technologies, identify strategic platforms and tools and prepare their organizations for them.
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TFS To Get Modify-Merge-Commit Style Version Control
The next version of Team Foundation Server will include a feature called Local Workspaces, which will allow Subversion Style “Modify-Merge-Commit” Version Control. This will make it much easier for developers new to TFS get acquainted to the Version Control Model compared to the current model of “Server Workspaces”, and make working offline easier.
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Ephemeralization or Heroku's Evolution to a Polyglot Cloud OS
Heroku recently announced its new Cedar stack and the addition of Node.js and Clojure as new deployment languages. InfoQ spoke with Heroku Co-Founder Adam Wiggins about this recent development, underlying principles and future plans. He compares a PAAS to an Operating System for the Cloud built atop of the combination of powerful, existing tools.
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An Overview of the X++ Programming Language
X++ is a 17 year old programming language with a syntax that meshes the structural and imperative features of Java with the set-based operations of SQL. It is primarily used within Dynamics AX, an enterprise resource planning platform. Originally a completely proprietary language, as of 2009 X++ can be compiled to .NET’s Intermediate Languages.
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Mobile HTML5 Charts by Sencha
Sencha has launched Sencha Touch Charts, a beta version of a set of rich, interactive charting components built with HTML5 and optimized for mobile devices. Part of the Sencha Touch offering, this library enables developers to build interactive radar, bar, line, stacked, and pie charts that are optimized for Apple iOS, Android and BlackBerry devices.
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Should the Web be Encrypted?
Last week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in collaboration with the Tor Project, has launched an official 1.0 version of HTTPS Everywhere, a tool for the Firefox web browser that helps secure web browsing by encrypting connections to more than 1,000 websites.
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RIM to Offer Android Applications this Summer
RIM is continuing to flirt with development platforms. With Silverlight forgotten and Flash not really having a market to speak of, the next big target is Java and the Android marketplace.
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Preview: 15th SPLC Conference on Software Product Lines
The International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC) is the most important event that covers the full range of Product Line Engineering in software-intensive products. Its 15th incarnation will take place in the Munich City Center from August 21st to August 26th.
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Ruby 1.9.3 Preview 1 Released, Improves GC Pauses With Lazy Sweep GC
Ruby 1.9.3 Preview 1 is out and brings new features to the standard library and improvements such as the new lazy sweep GC. InfoQ talked to Narihiro Nakamura about the lazy sweep GC and looks at Ruby 1.9.x adoption.
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Xamarin Releases Its First Version of MonoTouch
Xamarin, the new maintainers of Mono, have released their first update to the MonoTouch platform. In addition to the bug fixes one would expect from a service release they are now supporting the System.IO.IsolatedStorage API.
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Interview: Richard Hipp on UnQL, a New Query Language for Document Databases
This interview with Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite, unveils the details of UnQL, a new query language for JSON document databases. Hipp mentions UnQLite, an embedded document database he plans to create.