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Message Queuing Options for .NET
When building larger scale applications, message queues are often very helpful for both distributing and aggregating workloads. In the .NET ecosystem there are several options available for message queuing. This article highlights some of the more popular and unique offerings as well as the basic terminology needed to evaluate them.
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Software Engineer best rated Job in 2011
According to careertrack.com the best rated job in 2011 is Software Engineer, at least in the US. 200 professions across various industries, skill levels, and salaries have been surveyed to calculate the ranking which is determined by taking the work environment, physical demands, outlook, income and stress into account.
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Steve Marx Explores Hidden Gems in Windows Azure
Steve Marx, Tactical Strategist at Windows Azure, gave a presentation at MIX11 on “10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Windows Azure”, highlighting a list of things that can be done with WA but may not be common knowledge. We got in touch with Steve to ask him more about AppFabric, Startup Tasks, Blob leasing and more -
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Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service 2.0 Supports New Identity Providers
At the recent MIX 2011 conference, Microsoft announced updates to its existing cloud-based Access Control Service (ACS) that supports new web-friendly and enterprise-grade identity providers, while beefing up its support for standard communication protocols, improving the developer experience and enhancing the online management portal.
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GitHub Passes 2m Repositories
GitHub recently announced they had passed two million git repositories hosted, with 70% being created in the last year alone and an expected 1m users later this year. What else is new at GitHub?
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Annotation-Driven Dependency Injection with Google Guice 3.0
Late last month Google released Guice 3.0, a Java framework that implements the dependency injection (DI) design pattern. The motivation behind Guice was to make it easier for programmers to write DI code by reducing the need to write boilerplate factories. This article examines the new 3.0 features, loks at how Guice 3.0 supports Spring DI, and introduces Guice 4.1 (a.k.a. MiniGuice).
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Oracle Have Released NetBeans 7.0 with Support for the JDK7 Developer Preview and HTML5
With today's release of NetBeans 7.0, NetBeans becomes the first open source IDE to support JDK 7. Other highlights include Maven 3 integration and HTML5 support.
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POJO Service Registry brings OSGi to the Classpath
A new project on Google Code, the Pojo Service Registry, aims to provide an OSGi-lite mechanism for Java applications, but outside of a OSGi runtime. Instead of requiring all JARs to be bundles, it scans the startup classpath and emulates a bundle layer, whilst providing the service hookups that would be wired together in a full OSGi container.
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Capture the Application, not just the Screenshot with VS Lab Management
Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 is a highly integrated virtualization, development, and testing tool. When testers encounter an error they can create a snapshot of the virtual environment at that moment: not just a screenshot, but the current state of the application or website and all the servers involved.
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Axon Framework 1.0 Released
The Axon framework from JTeam - an implementation of the CQRS and EDA patterns - has been released.
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NuGet packages now come with Debug symbols, Sources
The NuGet team has announced a feature that allows package authors to package their sources along with their assemblies for distribution through NuGet. This enables developers using these packages to debug through the sources of the referenced packages easily, without having to search for the source code on the project hosting server or do complicated setups.
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jQuery Mobile Alpha 4 released, with support for Windows Phone 7
The jQuery Mobile team has released Alpha 4 of their cross-platform mobile framework. Positioned as the last Alpha release before Beta, in addition to resolving many issues since Alpha 3, this new build also ships with several new features.
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Microsoft Virtual Academy on Cloud Computing
Microsoft has opened a free online virtual academy for students interested in learning and graduating in Microsoft Cloud Computing technologies.
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JAX London 2011 Review
Last week's JAX London included an OSGi specific day as well as others on Agile, Spring, JavaEE and tools. As well as the JAX Awards, other products were introduced such as the free GlobalsDB, an overview of Cloud Foundry, and Adobe Flex 4.5 running on top of iOS and on a demonstration BlackBerry playbook. Read on to find out more.
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Oracle Offloads Open Office
Oracle has finally let go of OpenOffice.org, stating that it will not be offering commercial products based on the codebase nor supporting development of the OpenOffice codebase, instead hoping to get the community involved in on-going maintenance. Given that LibreOffice forked some time ago and appears to be a healthier fork, what chances are there that OpenOffice will survive?