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Polymer 2.0 Introduces Breaking Changes But the Migration Has Been Smoothed
Polymer 2.0 replaces Custom Elements API v0 with v1, deprecates Polymer.dom, uses Shadow DOM instead, but the migration path is not so steep as these changes suggest because they have introduced a compatibility layer that enables code created with Polymer 1.7+ to run under 2.0
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Java Type Inference Won't Support Mutability Specification
Java type inference won't support differentiation of mutable vs immutable variables due to lack of consensus within the community regarding how this should be implemented, recent communication shows. Also, to prevent a long debate about corner cases, a number of such cases will be ruled out. Although the JEP doesn't indicate a target version, Java 10 seems likely.
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What José Mourinho Can Teach Us about Team Building
Alan O’Callaghan gave a presentation at the Scrum Gathering Portugal 2016 on what José Mourinho can teach us about team building. Starting with the similarities between Football and Scrum, the talk addresses the less understood characteristic that affects Scrum’s effectiveness, that is, according to the speaker, the building of self-organising teams.
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NET Core 2.0 Planned for Spring 2017
Microsoft Project Manager Immo Landwerth has announced details for the forthcoming .NET Core 2 release, slated for Spring 2017.
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Is Gartner's Report of Java EE's Demise Greatly Exaggerated?
Gartner has produced a report called “Market Guide for Application Platforms”, citing Java EE’s “revenue decline” in reporting “a clear shift” in the application platform market. The Java EE community takes issue with those findings, in personal comments to InfoQ.
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CanJS 3.0 Release Breaks Framework into Smaller Modules
Bitovi has released version 3.0 of JavaScript framework CanJS. CEO Justin Meyer said the release "ultimately represents an understanding and embrace of CanJS's identity — adapt or die."
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AWS Expands Cloud to Canada, United Kingdom
Just days after the end of re:Invent, AWS shared news of further geographic expansion. Amazon added locations in Montréal and London, representing the 15th and 16th regions of the AWS cloud.
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Idris Getting Close to Version 1.0
Dependent types-based language Idris will soon reach version 0.99, which can be viewed as an alpha release of 1.0, according to the Idris team. Idris 1.0 is expected sometime around February 2017.
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Focus on the Process, Not on Individual Microservices
The key to success when working with a microservices based distributed system is to focus on the distributed process as a whole, not on the microservices themselves. The services are the least important part, Eric Ess claimed at the recent Microservices Conference in London, in his presentation on how to monitor distributed processes at jet.com.
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Kubernetes 1.5 Released with Improved StatefulSets and Alpha Support for Windows Server 2016
The CNCF have released version 1.5 of the Kubernetes container orchestration system. Core improvements focus on beta functionality associated with deployment and scaling of stateful applications, and making it possible to perform cluster operations without disrupting applications. Alpha support has also been added for Windows Server 2016 nodes and the scheduling of Windows Server Containers.
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Speedment Releases Stream ORM Version 3.0.1
Speedment released version 3.0.1 of their stream object-relational mapping Java toolkit and runtime application, featuring a new declarative Java 8 stream API, an improved user interface, and better code generation. InfoQ spoke to Per-Åke Minborg, co-founder and CTO of Speedment, about this latest release.
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Visual Studio Code 1.8 Adds Hot Exit, Zen Mode, More Debugging Options
The newly released Visual Studio 1.8 brings many improvements and new features, including Hot Exit to prevent losing any edits, Zen Mode to make focusing on code easier, new debugging features, more accessible settings, etc.
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Google Targets IoT with Android Things
Google brings Android and its ecosystem to the development of IoT devices. Developers will write applications to these devices similarly to how they write for mobile ones.
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Julien Nioche on StormCrawler, Open-Source Crawler Pipelines Backed by Apache Storm
Julien Nioche, director of DigitalPebble, PMC member and committer of the Apache Nutch web crawler project, talks about StormCrawler, a collection of reusable components to build distributed web crawlers based on the streaming framework Apache Storm. InfoQ interviewed Nioche, main contributor of the project, to find out more about StormCrawler and how it compares to other similar technologies.
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Ashley Nolan Surveys State of JavaScript Tooling in 2016
Ashley Nolan asked 4,715 front-end developers about the tools they use in 2016. While many developers continue to use jQuery, React and Webpack are beginning to dominate the ecosystem.