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Visual Studio 2013 Release Date Announced, RC Available Now
Microsoft has had several big announcements for developers: Visual Studio 2013RC is available for download now. Accompanying this release is the availability of Windows 8.1 RTM for developers that subscribe to MSDN or TechNet. This reverses the previous Microsoft position that app developers would have to wait until general availability to get access to a production system.
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Removal of sun.misc.Sort and sun.misc.Compare in Java 8
Oracle is removing the sun.misc.Compare interface and sun.misc.Sort class in Java 8. These are old, residual classes that are no longer used within the JDK. sun.misc.Compare is an interface that allows you to compare two Objects and return an int. sun.misc.Sort is a class that takes in a sun.misc.Compare and sorts an Object array using the quicksort algorithm.
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Performance Gurus Release jClarity Flagship Performance Monitoring Tool
London-based start-up jClarity announces the general availability of their flagship product for locating Java performance problems in both Cloud and Enterprise environments.
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AWS Gets Redis, Several RDS Improvements
Amazon recently announced several new features for the AWS platform, including option to choose Redis for it's ElastiCache service, several RDS related improvements, and even the release of their unified command line interface.
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Improved Authentication with Filters in ASP.NET MVC 5
Visual Studio 2013 Developer Preview ships with ASP.NET MVC 5 which enables developers to apply authentication filters that provides an ability to authenticate users using various third party vendors or a custom authentication provider. Eric Vogel recently demonstrated its usage with an example using source codes.
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Quick Unit Test Generation Returns to Visual Studio
Easy access unit test generation functionality returns to Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 Preview based on a tool produced the Visual Studio ALM Rangers. Multiple unit test frameworks and C#/VB .NET are supported.
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3D Modeling Made Easy with JSModeler
Viktor Kovacs has developed JS Modeler, an easy to use JavaScript API to visualize 3D models rendered using WebGL. The tool was built on top of the popular three.js framework. The library includes various demos built using the library, including a Lego builder, 3D Tic-Tac-Toe and a Robotic Arm.
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Google Play Services to Beat Android Fragmentation
Fragmentation is said to be one of central handicaps when developing applications for Android. Google seems to have found a way to ease the pain for developers, at least when it comes to fragmentation of installed Android versions.
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Agile Retrospectives, Can You Skip Them?
Teams sometimes consider to skip a retrospective meeting, when they feel time pressure, or do not see direct benefits of doing one. Next they question themselves if they have to keep doing retrospectives? Agile retrospectives help teams to learn and improve continuously, and there are valid reasons to keep doing them also with mature teams.
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Integrate OpenAccess ORM with NAnt using Clean, Build and Enhance Targets
Telerik OpenAccess ORM integrates with NAnt using clean, build and enhance targets by making use of XML mapping.
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New Relic iPhone App Adds Improved Chart History and UI Improvements
New Relic has recently updated their iPhone App with improved chart history and includes several bug fixes. It enables you to monitor plugins and get alerts as and when they are generated by the monitoring engine.
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Implementing Hexagonal Architecture using Life Preserver and Spring Framework
Russ Miles recently shared some thoughts and ideas about the needs for adaptability in a system and how his implementation of the Hexagonal Architecture can help in achieving this. He used a Java and Spring based application to exemplify how such a system can be implemented.
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AWS and Microsoft Release Dueling Mobile Notification Services
Within days of each other, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) released mobile-friendly notification services aimed at developers. Both services make it possible to quickly and cheaply broadcast millions of messages to devices of all kinds. While similar on the surface, each service offers their own unique capabilities.
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Everything About Java 8
TechEmpower, a custom application development company based in El Segundo, CA, has posted a blog entry titled "Everything about Java 8". The blog post is a comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8. Here's a quick overview of the blog post.
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Jigsaw, Second Cut
In a mail to the jigsaw-dev list, Mark Reinhold posted news of a reboot of the Jigsaw project to provide modularity for the JDK. Read on to find out more about what's happening, and what to look out for.