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Talend Releases a Cloud Version of its Unified Integration Platform
Talend announced at the Cloud Computing Expo last week that it was releasing a Cloud-based version of its Enterprise Unified Integration Platform.
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QCon San Francisco November 14-18 - tracks announced & registration open
QCon San Francisco 2011, taking place November 14-18, is now open for registration ($700 savings until June 22nd). QCon is an enterprise software development conference for team leads, architects, and project managers covering architecture & design, Java, Mobile, functional programming, Lean and Kanban, Cloud Computing, Big Data & NoSQL, emerging languages, and other timely topics.
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Will Machiel van der Bijl make manual Software Testing obsolete?
Machiel van der Bijl from the University of Twente in the Netherlands recently introduced a Model-based testing approach which is supposed to automate software testing.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of REST APIs
A new blog post by George Reese provides a wealth of recommendations on best practices and common pitfalls of REST APIs implementation.
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Tools for Porting Android Apps to Windows Phone 7
Microsoft attracts Android developers to Windows Phone 7 (WP7) with an API mapping tool and a WP7 Guide.
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How To Think Like A Cloud
At the Interop 2011 conference in Las Vegas, Alistair Croll of Bitcurrent delivered a talk titled “How to Think Like a Cloud.” This session pointed out the differences between a traditional application development approach and a utility computing mindset.
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World IPv6 Day Has Started
June 8th 2011 is World IPv6 day, where many large internet organisations such as Google and YouTube, and social networks like Facebook have IPv6 enabled their sites for at least the next 24 hours. If you have an IPv6 connection, then when you visit these sites you'll be going over the IPv6 network instead of the IPv4 network.
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The Android Ecosystem by Tim Bray
Tim Bray, developer advocate at Google, presented yesterday evening his views on the Android Ecosystem at the Seattle Android Meetup. He talked about the successful business models for mobile apps, the new features coming this month and shared briefly his opinion the Web vs Native app.
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Big Data – The Next Frontier
According to the new report from McKinsey Global Institute, Big Data is becoming a factor of production like physical or human capital.
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Schema.org - Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! Agree on a Common Markup Vocabulary [Updated]
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! have decided to propose a common markup vocabulary, Schema.org, based on the Microdata format, simplifying the job of webmasters who want to give meaning to their web pages content.
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The Future of Terracotta after Its Acquisition by Software AG
Software AG, one of the leaders in the SOA and BPM market acquired San Francisco based Terracotta that is behind prominent open source products such as EhCache, Big Memory and Quartz. Terracotta products fill in the application performance and scalability needs for cloud based offerings from Software AG. In this article, InfoQ talks to Ari Zilka regarding the future of this acquisition.
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Upcoming Conference CompArch 2011 in Boulder, Colorado
The CompArch Conference is a federated conference that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in Component-Based Software Development and Software Architecture. This year the event is held at the University of Colorado in the United States from June 20th to June 24th. As general chairs Ivica Cnrkovic and Judith Stafford were appointed.
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Oracle Proposes Apache Foundation for Open Office
Oracle has proposed donating the OpenOffice codebase to the Apache Foundation, and relicensing under the Apache License, just over a month since saying it would abandon development of the project. It has interested other contributors (including IBM) but is distinct from the Document Foundation, which continues to develop LibreOffice under the LGPL.
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Is REST Successful in the Enterprise?
Some might prematurely conclude that REST has won based on Programmable Web data: 73% of the APIs are RESTful. But Steve Jones, a SOA practitioner, draws attention that those APIs are used by front-end systems doing data aggregation and not by the majority of enterprise systems, and REST is not yet ready for the enterprise.
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JNBridgePro 6.0 Connects Java&.NET Apps in the Cloud
JNBridge has enhanced their interoperability tool to enable native communication between Java to .NET applications deployed in the cloud or on the ground and in the cloud.