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Visual Studio 2013 Adds New Project Templates with Improvements and Social Accounts Authentication
The recently released Visual Studio 2013 includes new project templates with several improvements which enables developers to build projects and applications faster.
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Oracle Releases NetBeans 7.4 with JDK 8 and Mobile Web Application Support
After previewing it at JavaOne, Oracle has now officially released NetBeans 7.4. The new release allows developers to work with the JDK 8 previews, adds support for integrating HTML5 into Java EE applications, and provides tools for developing mobile applications with Apache Cordova.
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YARN Brings New Capabilities To Hadoop
Hadoop 2 is now Generally Available, with YARN bringing ability to build data-processing applications that work natively in Hadoop. We spoke to Rohit Bakhshi, product manager at Hortonworks, about YARN and what it means for Hadoop users.
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Improving Eclipse
There is a discussion in the Eclipse ide-dev mailing list on how to make Eclipse more competitive. This was prompted by the blog post Why we dropped Eclipse in favour of IntelliJ.
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Microsoft's Visual Studio 2013 Performance Tuning
The arrival of VS2013 RTM brings several performance enhancements to production. Microsoft intends for these to benefit all developers using larger solutions. Complementing this are several more refinements for C++ developers over what was found in VS2012.
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GOTO Berlin: Problems Using Your Own Public API
Using your own public API can be a challenge, Phil Calcado, Director of Engineering at Soundcloud, declared when sharing his experiences managing and rebuilding a large Rails application in a talk at the GOTO Berlin Conference.
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QConSF 2013 in 3 Weeks (Nov 11-15): Conference Schedule Published; Training Days; Facebook Keynote
Why do well-tuned, bad systems usually outperform less mature, better systems? Facebook's Keith Adams answers this question in his keynote at the 7th annual QCon San Francisco (Nov 11-15). The full conference schedule is now live with registrations 40% ahead of last year. With only three weeks left before the event, there is still time to save $400 if you register before Oct 25th.
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Amazon Elastic Transcoder Adds Audio Support
Amazon has recently added audio support for elastic transcoder that provides an ability to convert media files from one format to another without any depending upon about servers, storage and scalability.
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Backbone 1.1.0 Released, Includes Potential Incompatibility with 1.0
A new update to Backbone.js, one of the most widely used front-end architectural frameworks in the JavaScript community, was released the past week. Although it is not a significant version number update, reports from some users indicate that some of changes may cause incompatibility in applications designed to work with version 1.0.
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GOTO Berlin: DO’s and DON’Ts in a Web API
Oliver Wolf, a principal consultant, shares his opinionated thoughts about endpoints, domain models, caching, versioning and other matters from the discussions around REST and web APIs taking place in mailing lists and other forums in a talk at the GOTO Berlin Conference.
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Webix 1.1 Adds Improved Server Side Integration, REST API and XSS Safe Support
The recently released Webix 1.1 includes improved server side integration and bug detection including the ability to disable any view. It also includes support for REST API and enable developers to define XSS safe template in addition to load data from server side.
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GOTO Berlin: Building, Running and Promoting a Public API
In a presentation at the GOTO Berlin Conference Ben Barnard and Felix Leipold, both developers at Nokia in Berlin, shared their experience designing and building a public web API, among other things how to work with an API, that inherently doesn’t have a natural user interface, and challenges in testing for backward compatibility.
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Visual Studio 2013 Now Available
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2013. All versions are available for download to MSDN subscribers and the general public.
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GOTO Berlin: Microservices as an Alternative to Monoliths
James Lewis talked at the GOTO Berlin Conference about an alternative to the traditional way of building systems where all functionality is put into one big application with one big database, instead using a pattern where entirely separate business capabilities, together with their own data, are kept separate in microservices.
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Experiences Going From Data-Driven Development to Domain-Driven Design
With a long history of data-driven development, Julie Lerman shares her experiences moving into using her skills with Domain-Driven Design in three articles, with examples in C# using Entity Framework