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Typemock Isolator++ Updated with 64 bit Support
Typemock has released Isolator++ with support for 64 bit C/C++ code including legacy code that was not originally written for testing.
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Project Helios: An ASP.NET OWIN-based Web Host Running on IIS
Microsoft has released a project called Helios, a lightweight OWIN-based web host running on top of IIS.
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Prismatic Adds Data Type Coercion to Schema 0.2
Prismatic have added data coercion in the 0.2 release of their Clojure data description library, Schema. The addition of coercion means that the library doesn’t just reject data that has the wrong types, but it can be configured to modify instances to fit the schema. InfoQ talked to Prismatic's Jason Wolfe about Schema.
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OpenAccess ORM Renamed As Telerik Data Access with Improved UI and Colored Visual Designer
Telerik recently renamed OpenAccess ORM as Telerik Data Access with Improved User Interface and colored visual designer in addition to Telerik.DataAccess.Core NuGet, Telerik.DataAccess.Fluent and Telerik.DataAccess.Fluent.Sample NuGet packages.
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Hazelcast Introduces MapReduce API
Hazelcast, an open source in-memory data grid solution introduces a MapReduce API for its offering.
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Testing End-to-End with Nightwatch
Nightwatch is a recently released acceptance framework based on Node.js that uses Selenium WebDriver API to automate web applications testing. The tool promises a simple syntax which enables the writing of end-to-end tests using JavaScript and CSS selector that runs against a Selenium server.
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Simplified CSS Preprocessing with restyle.js
Andrea Giammarchi's restyle.js is a new, JavaScript-based, CSS preprocessor that can run on either the server (via Node.js) or in the browser. It touts itself as "a simplified CSS approach", generating all prefixed variations of CSS rules and properties and, if applicable, inserting them into the DOM.
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Mac OS X and BTRFS support in Docker
As part of the 0.8 release the Docker.io team have announced support for installation on Mac OS X and the use of the BTRFS as an alternative to AUFS.
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Twenty Five Years of GPS
The GPS constellation in use today was launched twenty five years ago, and is still going strong. Today, GPS receivers can be found in most smart phones as well as commercial airliners and supertankers. InfoQ looks back at how the GPS came to be, and how locations are being used today with HTML5 and geo location services.
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Java 8 News: Release Candidates Available, New Atomic Numbers and Stripped Implementations Dropped
The first release candidates of Java 8 started showing up in early February. The first, b128, on February 4, and a second announced on the OpenJDK mailing list a week later.
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Challenges Performing Background Compilation in V8
This article includes details on the recently background compilation introduced in V8, Chrome’s JavaScript engine.
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SharpDevelop 5 Introduces Class Browser, Search Grouping, Insert with Cursor and ILSpy Support
SharpDevelop 5 has been released with new features such as class browser, search grouping including integration support for ILSpy. It also includes features such as insert with cursor, context actions, code inspections, enhanced scrollbar, background syntax check, link mode, suppressing issues, automatic variable naming in addition to XML based tooltips for documentation.
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Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released
Elasticsearch released version 1.0.0 of its self-titled, open-source analytics tool. Elasticsearch is a distributed search engine which allows for real-time data analysis in big-data environments. The new version comes with various functional enhancements and changes to the API to make Elasticsearch more intuitive and powerful to use.
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Oracle Releases 144 Security Fixes, 36 for Java SE
Oracle released their latest Critical Patch Update (CPU), containing 144 new security fixes across all product families, including 36 for Java SE.
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Google's BigQuery Gaining Momentum
BigQuery, a SaaS query offering by Google, seems to gain more and more momentum. It allows to query large-scale columnar data structures using a SQL-like query language, in the cloud and provides integration with other Google services such as Google Analytics and Google Apps Script.