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Docker Publishes Official Repositories for Language Stacks
Docker has added new official repositories for language stacks to the Docker Hub, including C/C++, Java, Python or Ruby.
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Latest Preview of Visual Studio “14” Exhibits Growing Pains
The fourth preview of Visual Studio "14" integrates several new features, including improvements to the debugger, integration of a new high-performance 64-bit JIT compiler, and ASP.NET vNext. Alongside these changes are several rough edges that reinforces the notion this software is still under active development.
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CloudFlare Universal SSL - Free Web Security for All
CloudFlare have made SSL available to all free subscribers to its content delivery network (CDN) with Universal SSL. The move addresses both cost and complexity issues that have previously confronted web site and application owners wanting to deploy SSL. CloudFlare takes care of issuing a certificate at no cost to the end user, and enabling SSL becomes a selection from a dropdown menu.
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JavaOne: Hazelcast Announce JCache Support, JCP Run
Hazelcast announce their new 3.3.1 release, with JCache support, preview their technology roadmap and discuss their run for the JCP Executive Committee.
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Herb Sutter on Modern C++ Essentials
At CppCon 2014, Herb Sutter gave a talk presenting the essential idioms of modern C++ programming. Here is a short summary.
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Major Update to Firebase Brings Rich Authentication Tokens
Firebase has this week announced major updates to its user authentication, including automatic session persistence, and rich authentication tokens for use in Security Rules.
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Spring Framework 4.1 Release Supports JCache (JSR-107) Annotations
Spring Framework 4.1 provides comprehensive support for JCache (JSR-107) annotations using Spring's existing cache configuration and infrastructure abstraction. The new release also supports JMS and performance enhancements and WebSocket refinements.
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QConSF in 4 Weeks ‘DevOps @Google’ Keynote; Lambda Architecture Myths; Reactive Programmimg @Netflix
81% of speakers, 100% of keynotes, and 100% of tutorials have been confirmed for the 8th annual QCon San Francisco 2014. All confirmed sessions are now live on our schedule. Register before Oct 18th and save $400.
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Batch Updates Solve Long-standing Issue with Core Data
Core Data batch updates, introduced in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, aim at fixing a long-standing limitation of the Core Data stack, as developers had been asking for many years. Let's review the problem that batch updates solve, how they work, and an alternative to them involving a rethinking of data normalization strategy.
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CppDepend now Supports C and C++14
CppDepend is a primarily a source code analyzer, with features geared towards making it easier to understand large code bases with complex interdependencies. In addition, it can integrate with static analyzers. With the introduction of version 5, CppDepend now supports C and C++14.
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Rust Plans Roadmap to 1.0 Beta
The development team for the Rust systems programming language has released its schedule for the first beta release of the forthcoming 1.0 release. Rust is designed to provide the features of modern programming languages while retaining the power of C/C++.
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New for Internet Explorer: HTTP/2 Support
As part of the Windows 10 Technical Preview, Internet Explorer will offer HTTP/2 support, performance improvements to the Chakra JavaScript engine, and a top-level domains parsing algorithm based on publicsuffix.org.
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RubyMotion Releases Android Public Beta
RubyMotion recently announced that its Android Support had entered public beta, which should allow early adopters to get started now developing for the Android platform. RubyMotion is a terminal based toolchain used to create native iOS, Mac, and now with this beta version, Android applications, using the popular Ruby language and tools.
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Updated Feature List for C# 6 and VB 12
As the next version of C# gets closer, features that are not quite ready have to be cut. The features. Newly removed from the list are primary constructors and declaration expressions.
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Java One - Final Day and Community Keynote
Summary of the JavaOne 2014 Community Keynote, including material dropped from the opening keynote.