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DevExpress Universal 13.2 Introduces Token Box Control
DevExpress has included Token Box control in the latest release 13.2 which enables you to auto-complete values from a predefined list either by selection from the dropdown window list or manual input.
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ASP.NET Identity Preview 2.0 Adds Account Confirmation, Password Reset and Security Token Provider
Microsoft has recently released ASP.NET Identity Framework with support for account confirmation, password reset, security token provider in addition to the ability to make use of IQueryable on UsersStore and RolesStore.
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Android 4.4 KitKat and the Secret Key Factory
With the introduction of Android 4.4, developers are being asked to change the way symmetric keys are generated from Unicode passphrases via the SecretKeyFactory.
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IntelliJ 13 Released
Jetbrains has announced the release of IntelliJ IDEA version 13 Community Edition and Ultimate edition. Both feature a completely revamped user interface, including support for Android, Java 8 (including Lambda expressions) and many other development technologies introduced this year.
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Oracle Tunes Java's Internal String Representation
In an ongoing effort to improve Java performance, Oracle has announced a change in the internal representation of Strings as of Java 1.7.0_06.
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Interview with Vyacheslav Volkov, Creator of CaptchaMvc
InfoQ interviewed Vyacheslav Volkov, creator of CaptchaMvc, about his project and the future of captcha’s in general.
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Async, LINQ, and the Future of RxJS
Reactive Extensions for JavaScript 2.2 includes an optional component for working with asynchronous data sources. Known as rx.async.js, this fulfills the need for binding to events, callbacks, and promises. And in the horizon is support for LINQ style query expression parsing.
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Behaviour-Driven Development Tool Jasmine 2.0 Released
The recently released version 2.0 of Jasmine, a Behaviour-Driven Development, BDD, testing framework for JavaScript, comes with improved support for Node.js, major work on increasing the internal quality and some backwards compatibility breaking changes.
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Splitforce A/B Testing for Mobile Applications
As mobile applications are becoming a more central part of companies' IT strategies, testing and analyzing those applications becomes more important. Whereas functional testing of code is part of every project, analyzing behavior and conversion rates is still very new to the mobile sector. Splitforce offers tools and services for application developers to instrument apps for in-app analysis.
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A Proposal for a Database URI Standard
David Wheeler has proposed a standard URI format for database connections. This proposal would allow applications built on different technologies to share the same connection string. That would be beneficial for a wide variety of tools including report builders, automated build and deploy tools, and ORMs.
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Essential Studio Enterprise 2013 Volume 4 Adds LightSwitch, Localization and New Improvements
Syncfusion has released Essential Studio Enterprise Edition 2013 Volume 4 with new JavaScript controls such as rich-text editor, map, tree map, range navigator, barcode, date-time picker and rotator in addition to extensions for LightSwitch. It also includes 3D chart support for WinRT, WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone suites including format manipulation libraries for Windows Phone.
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Introducing Reactive Extensions for C++
Reactive Extensions for C++, also known as Rx.cpp, is now available for WinRT via C++/CX and OS X via clang. While still in its early stages, a lot of work has been done since the last preview.
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Twitter Open Sources CocoaSPDY
Twitter has developed and open sourced CocoaSPDY, a framework for OS X (Cocoa) and iOS (Cocoa Touch) based on the implementation they previously contributed to Netty, updating in the same time their iOS application to use SPDY instead of plain HTTP. Twitter has noticed up to 30% decrease in communication latency, the improvement being more noticeable when an “user’s network conditions get worse.“
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Reactive Extensions for JavaScript Loses Weight and Older Browsers
RxJS 2.2 loses weight by only supporting ECMA Script 5 browsers in the default build. It also offers an even lighter weight version that only includes the most commonly used functions.
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Automate All Things! Support for DevOps Tool Puppet Added to Windows Azure
Want to do DevOps automation in a Microsoft world? Typically that meant using Microsoft-provided tools like PowerShell and System Center instead of the popular open source tools that have been slow to support the full Microsoft product stack. That’s beginning to change as developers and system administrators can now use tools like Puppet to provision and manage resources in Windows Azure.