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Hadoop Redesign for Upgrades and Other Programming Paradigms
Yahoo recently announced and presented a redesign of the core map-reduce architecture for Hadoop to allow for easier upgrades, larger clusters, fast recovery, and to support programming paradigms in addition to Map-Reduce. The new design is quite similar to the open source Mesos cluster management project - both Yahoo and Mesos commented on the differences and opportunities.
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Multi-Tasking Planned for Windows Mobile 7 at MIX
There has been a lot of changes to Windows Phone 7 recently. In addition to the big news about the Nokia deal, Microsoft has been working on copy-and-paste functionality, multi-tasking, and CDMA support. Some of these will be coming in the near future while others will be fleshed out during MIX,
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A Proposal for an HTTP Digital Signature Protocol and API
Bill Burke, JBoss's Chief Architect and REST Easy Project Lead, published last week a proposal for a Digital Signature Protocol over HTTP. "DSig" is rapidly gaining popularity, more than 10 years after it was designed, due to the emergence of composite applications and the need to establish trusted relationships between their clients and services.
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BDD: ATDD done well?
A new form of an old question has been asked in the Behavior Driven Development community: is BDD merely Acceptance Test Driven Development done well? While the community calls out the differences, Dan North makes a request to avoid focusing on them, calling TDD "amazing".
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Moonlight 4.0 Preview 1 Has Been Released
Moonlight 4.0 Preview 1 includes all the Silverlight 3.0 API and a part of Silverlight 4.0 API. New features include: Out-of-Browser, GPU-accelerated graphics, 3D transformation, shaders, V4L2 video capture, H.264 and AAC, and better smooth streaming.
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Akka Reaches 1.0 Status: Brings the Actor Model to Java and Scala
Project lead Jonas Bonér has announced today that Akka has reached its 1.0 milestone. InfoQ spoke to Bonér to find out more about the project.
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Continuous Check-Ins with Mercurial
One of the major benefits of a distributed version control systems is that each user gets their own versioned workspace. Leon Bambrick is proposing taking it to an extreme by having every build perform a check-in.
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Orion – Eclipse for the Web
Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, announced in January a new tool named “Orion”. This “brand new adventure for Eclipse”, as Mike puts it, will provide a browser-based environment for open tool integration. Beginning of February the team released milestone M5 of Orion.
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Is ASP.NET MVC Inappropriate for User Interface Designers?
While ASP.NET MVC has made great strides in making development easier, in a post titled “ASP.NET MVC Is the New ASP” Michael Taylor argues that it actually makes it harder on user interface designers.
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Hudson Moves to GitHub (Again)
Whilst Jenkins 1.397 has been released, Sonatype have been pressing on with build and architectural changes to Hudson. In order to facilitate further developer interest, the Hudson codebase will be moved back to GitHub.
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Partitioning and Sharding Options for SQL Server and SQL Azure
Horizontal partitioning and sharding are important tools for developers working with extremely large datasets. We take a brief look at what’s available in SQL Server and what’s coming down the road.
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IcedRobot – An OpenJDK-based Fork of Android
A team of developers has announced the intent to fork Android in order to create a new OS based on OpenJDK, escaping Oracle’s patent lawsuits, to make it run on other platforms and operating systems, and to bring it to the desktop.
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H.264 Update
The MPEG-LA body, which oversees the H.264 patent pool, has announced a call for patents for the WebM/VP8 codec as they indicated last year. The creation of such a pool would damage WebM's position as a patent unencumbered codec, which could be damaging to the limited hardware decoding support starting to be developed.
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RubyGems Roundup: Release 1.5 for Ruby 1.9 and Gem Testers
The new RubyGems release 1.5 fixes the problems with Ruby 1.9.2. Gem Testers makes it easier to develop Gems that work on many different Ruby implementations and platforms.
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NASA’s OODT selected as an Apache Top Level Project
The Apache Software Foundation has selected the Object Oriented Data Technology architecture to become one of its Top-Level-Projects (TLP). Originally created by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, OODT allows transparent integration of geographically distributed and disparate computing and data resources via metadata middleware.