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Is OpenID Living Up to Our Expectations?
OpenID has promised to simplify the user authentication process across multiple websites, but some complain it has actually created more problems. 37signals, an early supporter of OpenID, has announced the decision to stop using it across its products. Is OpenID delivering what it promised?
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QCon London March 9-11 Highlights, Registration Up 100%
QCon London, InfoQ's in-person conference is coming up March 8-11 and registration is double last year's at this time. This 4th annual event is a practitioner-driven conference designed for team leads, architects and project management. A lot of work went into the program this year for this event with usually has over 100 speakers, highlighted in this post.
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SteamCannon and Elastic Beanstalk, A Comparison
Last week Amazon announced Elastic Beanstalk, but there is also an Open Source project named SteamCannon. SteamCannon is sponsored by RedHat and has been in active development since September 2010. With similar objectives, how do they stack up against each other?
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Service Oriented 'Internet of Things And Services'
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) are associated with business applications and integrations. A recent IEEE publication describes the architecture and processes to achieve relatively seamless integration between the burgeoning 'Internet of Things' with the 'Internet of Services'.
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HTML5 Wish List for 2011: Interview with Michael Mullany
Michael Mullany from Sencha has published a list of things that would benefit HTML5 during 2011. InfoQ has interviewed Michael in order to get some more details regarding his vision.
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Android Java Copyright Infringements?
A post on Friday claimed that the Android source tree contained more proprietary or decompiled code. What impact will this have to the Oracle vs Google case?
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Apache Tomcat 7 Becomes Latest Stable Release
Tomcat version 7.0.6, released on January 11th 2011, has been voted stable. This is the first stable release of the Tomcat 7 branch, the first new stable branch of the popular servlet container for almost four years.
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World IPv6 Day
The Internet Society has called for a World IPv6 Day on 8th June 2011 to promote the use of IPv6 by major organisations such as Google, Facebook and Akami. With IPv4 blocks expected to run out in the next week, the timing for the announcement could not be better.
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Appcelerator Buys Aptana
Appcelerator, the company behind the Titanium application development platform, has acquired Aptana. Aptana Studio 3, the Eclipse-based IDE with tightly integrated support for JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ruby, Python and PHP, is due to be released this quarter.
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Preview of SQL Azure Federations Connectivity Model
Earlier this week Cihan Biyikoglu of Microsoft provided a preview of how developers will need to adapt their code for the upcoming SQL Azure Federations to supports its connectivity model. The intent is to provide a safe model for developers to work with federated data and/or multi-tenant applications.
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OpenJDK Mac OSX Port
Since Apple joined the OpenJDK project, a new Mac OSX port project has been created and has made available the first public builds of OpenJDK 1.7 for the Mac. As well as checking out the source, it's possible to download an installer from a community site to develop against Java 1.7 applications from Eclipse on OSX.
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Accessing Windows 7 Features from Silverlight
Microsoft has released a library exposing Windows 7 features – sensors, speech, devices, taskbar, touch – to Silverlight Out-of-Browser applications running with elevated trust.
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Google Explains Chrome Dropping H264
After last week's announcement that the Chrome team was dropping support for H264, Mike Jazayeri has posted a more detailed explanation of the rationale behind the decision. Others, like the Free Software Foundation, have added their support to the decision.
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SGen: Mono’s Generational Garbage Collector
Mono had a dirty little secret. Until recently it used the portable but woefully inaccurate Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector. After two long years of work Mono is making the shift to a new generational garbage collector that is specific to the CLR and far more precise than anything they’ve had before.
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Stephen Walther on Integrating JavaScript Unit Tests
Automated testing frameworks need both a good test library and a good integration story. While most JavaScript testing frameworks have been focusing on the former, Stephen Walther has been working on a solution to the integration problem.