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Google WebP - Creating Smaller Images for Faster Pages
Google wants to shrink images transferred over the Internet by proposing a new lossy format called WebP. They claim they have achieved 39% reduction in image byte size leading to speedier page load.
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Concurrency Revolution From a Hardware Perspective
Brian Goetz and Cliff Click spoke at JavaOne conference last week about concurrency revolution from a hardware perspective. They said CPU designers will focus on parallelism in the future for increasing throughput of the systems. They also discussed some point solutions like Thread Pools, Fork/Join, Map/Reduce and Actors to achieve the concurrency in applications.
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Expression Blend 4 SP 1 Now Supports Flash UI Components
Expression Blend 4 SP 1 can read Adobe FXG files, enabling Expression developers to use Flash UI components in their applications.
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Atlassian aquires Bitbucket.org
Atlassian, the company behind developer tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo and Clover, has acquired Bitbucket.org, a hosted code collaboration site for the popular Mercurial distributed version control system (DVCS).
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Bundle.update: Towards the Next OSGi Release
It's been a long time since the last Bundle.update was posted, and there have been a lot of OSGi-centric updates since then. OSGi 4.2 has been released, with Equinox 3.6, Felix 3.0 and Knopflerfish 3.0 all providing support for the new platform. Recently, there have been some glimpses of the next version of OSGi, as well as increased enterprise support. Read on to find out what's been happening.
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Update on Plug-in Development for Windows Live Writer
In August, changes to the gallery for Windows Live Writer were announced. This caused some concern that Live Writer was going away. We talked to John Thornton, the Lead Program Manager for Windows Live Writer, to get the real story.
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Aparapi: New, “Pure Java” API for Executing Arbitrary Compute Tasks on GPUs Unveiled at JavaOne
InfoQ catches up with Gary Frost from AMD who unveiled an alpha release of Aparapi, an API that allows programmers to write logic in Java to be executed on a GPU. GPUs are the massively parallel hardware acceleration chips originally installed in PCs to boost graphics rendering performance but that are now pushed to other kinds of compute-intensive tasks that have nothing to do with graphics.
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Windows Phone 7 has put the .NET Language Coevolution Promise in Doubt
In 2009 Microsoft’s Lucas Bolognese announced a commitment to co-evolution for C# and Visual Basic. And the productization of F#, some have assumed it extends to that language as well. But by only offering C# in the initial release of WP7, this promise has been brought into doubt.
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Apache Cayenne 3.0 Supports Remote Object Persistence and ORM Modeling Tools
The new version of Apache Cayenne, an open source Java framework for object relational mapping and persistence, supports Remote Object Persistence and ORM Modeling Tools. InfoQ spoke with Cayenne project leads about the new features of the framework.
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eXo Add Social Features to Version 3 of their Portal Platform
There's been a lot of activity in the open source portal space lately with both eXo and Liferay announcing new versions of their core products. We talk to Benjamin Mestrallet, CEO of eXo, about the new release.
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Liferay Combine Web Content Management and Workflow in Portal 6EE
Liferay, a highly-regarded specialist portal vendor, has launched version 6 of their product during the Liferay West Coast Symposium this month. InfoQ takes a look at the release, and talks to Liferay CMO Paul Hinz to find out more.
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JSRs: What Lies Beneath
Following on from the confirmation of Plan B, with the delay to a number of JSRs and eviction of both the Lambda project as well as collection literals from Project Coin, it's interesting to take a step back and see how a change makes it into the Java environment. It's not as simple as you think.
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JavaOne: Modularity and Integration are Main Goals of Future Java SE, EE and Embedded Platforms
Modularity, integration and serviceability are some of the main goals for future releases of Java SE, Java EE and Java for Embedded Platforms. Mark Reinhold, Roberto Chinnici and Greg Bollella spoke at JavaOne 2010 Conference General Session on new Java technologies and features in JSE, JEE, and Java Embedded Systems.
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New PHP Tools for Windows Azure
Microsoft has announced a new tool, Windows Azure Companion, updates to Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP and Windows Azure Command-line Tools for PHP, and version 2.0 of Windows Azure SDK for PHP at Open Source India conference which took place during September 19-21, all tools targeted at PHP developers and web administrators interested in deploying applications on Windows Azure.
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Eclipse Mylyn Becomes Top Level Project
The Eclipse Mylyn project has been promoted to a top level Eclipse project under the banner of Application Lifecycle Management tools (though the Mylyn name is being kept as a short name). There is a project charter which explains its purpose in the ecosystem. Included is a new direction for review-based tools and hooking into build systems.