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Release of MBrace 1.0, a Distributed Programming Framework for .NET
After several years of development, MBrace 1.0 was released last week. MBrace is a programming model for scalable cloud data scripting and programming with F# and C#. The project consists mainly of code libraries and cloud providers runtime.
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Preview of New Features in Ruby 2.3.0
Nearly one year after Ruby 2.2.0 release, the first preview of Ruby 2.3.0 has been announced. Ruby 2.3.0 Preview1 introduces new features such as immutable string literals, null coalescing operator, and more.
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Visual Studio Code Now Extensible and Open Sourced
Microsoft's multi-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code, now supports extensions and is fully open source. The November release of VS Code has been designated a beta release and includes a number of additional enhancements.
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JavaOne 2015 Keynotes (Part 2)
We continue our report of the JavaOne 2015 keynotes, with a glimpse into Brian Goetz' crystal ball on Java 10 and beyond.
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Vulnerability Discovered in libpng
It has been announced that the popular and widely used libpng library has vulnerabilities that make applications that rely on it for PNG image support vulnerable to exploitation. System administrators and application developers should take heed to update their systems as soon as possible.
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Making People Feel Empowered with Intent-based Leadership
Intent-based leadership is about giving control and decision-making power to people who have the information. When we give control to people who have the competence and clarity, we create an environment where great things happen. An interview with Jenni Jepsen about intent-based leadership, giving influence and control to people, and creating an environment where people can feel empowered.
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Patrick Debois Shares His Experiences On Mobile Continuous Delivery
Patrick Debois, leading light of the DevOps movement, has been working on the "mobile continuous delivery" space for the past year and recently shared what he has been learning at the Velocity conference. His talk mentioned dozens of tools, scripts, and applications that cover the full mobile software development lifecycle. InfoQ took the opportunity to talk to Debois on the subject.
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Daniel Jacobson on Ephemeral APIs and Continuous Innovation at Netflix
InfoQ had the opportunity to interview Daniel Jacobson about ephemeral APIs, their link to experience-based APIs and when to consider them. He also explains why generic resource-based API architectures can run into problems at scale and why he doesn’t use an API descriptor language. Finally, he describes the various tools they built to deliver those APIs including Falcor, Scryer or Nicobar.
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Nexmo Verify SDK Touts Easy Phone Number-based Authentication
Nexmo has announced the availability of its Verify SDK for iOS, Android, and JavaScript, which makes it possible to securely register and authenticate users based on their mobile phone numbers, Nexmo says.
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Xamarin 4: Insights Is GA Now, Test Recorder and Forms 2
Xamarin has announced version 4 of their platform for building cross-platform native mobile apps for iOS and Android in C#. New in this version are the GA of Insights, a Recorder for the Test Cloud and several enhancements to the Platform: Xamarin.Forms 2.0, better support for iOS in VS, support for Android Material Design and more .NET code.
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Angular Meteor 1.2.0 Released
Meteor have released the updated version of Angular Meteor, its library for using AngularJS on top of Meteor.
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What Is New on ThoughtWorks Radar Nov 2015
ThoughtWorks has published their radar for the end of 2015, covering technologies in four areas: Languages & Frameworks, Platforms, Techniques, and Tools.
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Chrome to Lose Windows XP Support in April 2016
Google has announced that they will drop support for Chrome on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 in April 2016.
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InfoQ Readership Survey 2015
InfoQ wants to find out the technological preferences of our readers in order to provide content more aligned with our readers’ interest.
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Rebuild or Refactor?
Should you rebuilding or refactoring software?An interview with Wouter Lagerweij about what it is that makes refactoring so difficult, if rebuilding software is less risky than refactoring, and how continuous delivery fits with rebuilding software.