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BDD and JavaScript Using CucumberJS
Adding CucumberJS to the TDD workflow for JavaScript-based projects embraces the ideas of Behaviour Driven Development, BDD, and allows a developer to follow the TDD principles while developing from the outside in; running automated tests that fail until code that supports a feature is implemented, Todd Anderson reveals in a recent blog post.
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Spark, Storm and Real Time Analytics
Hadoop is definitely the platform of choice for Big Data analysis and computation. While data Volume, Variety and Velocity increases, Hadoop as a batch processing framework cannot cope with the requirement for real time analytics. Spark, Storm and the Lambda Architecture can help bridge the gap between batch and event based processing.
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IDC Study: How Many Software Developers Are Out There?
IDC has published the “2014 Worldwide Software Developer and ICT-Skilled Worker Estimates” document, a study estimating the number of professional software developers, hobbyist developers and Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-skilled workers in the world at the start of 2014. The 90 countries covered in the study represent 97% of the world’s GDP.
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L20n: JavaScript Localization Framework From Mozilla
L20n is an open source, JavaScript localization framework from Mozilla. It is designed to be very expressive along with several features such as adapting to Screen sizes, good separation of concerns, graceful handling of pluralization, support for default when there are multiple variants, and more.
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Mozilla Foundation Announces Firefox OS Contribution Program
In an effort to accelerate the development of Firefox OS, Mozilla announced a Contribution Program which will aim at providing dedicated developers with access to resources and reference hardware. Foxconn will manufacture the initial reference hardware, a tablet. The program will be open to developers, localizers, testers, and bug fixers.
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Gulp Aiming to Dethrone Grunt
Fractal, a company who has been actively involved in the development of several popular Node.js modules has just released gulp, a new building system which is trying to replace Grunt as the most popular JavaScript task-runner.
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Android++ with Zero Hardware Restrictions, MSBuild, LLVM, GCC, Integrated GDB Debugging
The recently released Android++ in closed beta enables you to build Android apps using Visual Studio with support for zero hardware restrictions, MSBuild, LLVM, GCC in addition to integrated GDB debugging.
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Greg Young on Using Complex Event Processing
Complex Event Processing, CEP, can be very useful for problems that have to do with time e.g. querying over historical data when you want to correlate things that have happened at different times, Greg Young explained in a recent presentation.
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Pieter Gheysens on Visual Studio Release Management
Visual Studio Release Management enables you to create workflows using Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. In an exclusive interview with InfoQ, Pieter Gheysens shares more information about VSRM.
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Deploying Chrome Apps on Android&iOS with Cordova 3.3.0
Developer can now deploy Chrome apps on Android and iOS with Apache Cordova 3.3.0.
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Encrypting Files on Android with Facebook Conceal
Facebook has open sourced Conceal, a set of Java APIs for file encryption and authentication on Android. Conceal uses a subset of OpenSSL’s algorithms and predefined options in order to keep the library smaller, currently being 85KB.
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Visual F# Tools 3.1.1 Adds Visual Studio Express 2013 Desktop and Web Versions
Visual F# Tools 3.1.1 has been released with support for both desktop and web versions of Visual Studio 2013 Express edition in addition to the ability to install it directly from PowerShell prompt.
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Producer/Consumer Processing with TPL Dataflow
Getting started with TPL Dataflow can be daunting. There is a lot of new terminology to learn and many of the advanced features obscure the simpler ones that you should be relying on. Dave Marini of Taskmatics cuts through the confusion by showing a complete producer/consumer dataflow from start to end.
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Functional Relational Mapping Library Slick 2.0 Released
Version 2.0 of Slick, a Functional-Relational Mapping, FRM, library for Scala, (corresponding to an Object-Relational Mapper, ORM, for object-oriented languages), was recently released with a code generator for reverse-engineering a database schema and new driver architecture to allow support for non-SQL databases.
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jQuery 1.11 & 2.1 Now on npm and Bower
The latest jQuery can be obtained from npm and Bower, has some performance improvements and bug fixes.