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App.Net Celebrates First Birthday
App.Net, created to provide an alternate Twitterverse, just celebrated its first birthday. Read on to find out what it has achieved in that time.
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Microsoft Continues Ascent to OSS Relevance with Engine Yard for Windows Azure
At the end of June 2013, Engine Yard announced that they had formed a partnership with Microsoft. The first fruits of that partnership have been released as developers can now run the full Engine Yard platform-as-a-service stack on the Windows Azure cloud. This, coupled with updates to the OSS VM Depot repository, positions Microsoft as a reasonable host for a variety of open source platforms.
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RadImageEditor Gets Windows Phone 7 and Text Editing Support
Telerik has released RadImageEditor Q2 2013 with support for Windows Phone 7 based on the developer feedback in adddition to text editing functionality.
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IBM Backs Cloud Foundry
IBM announced its support for Pivotal's Cloud Foundry last month through a partnership in the continued development of the popular, open source Platform-as-a-Service. The announcement comes as one in a string of backings from IBM for cloud-related open source projects.
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Google Open Sources Gumbo, An HTML5 Parsing Library
Google has open sourced Gumbo, an HTML parsing library written in C. Gumbo adheres to the HTML5 parsing algorithm, passing all html5lib-0.95 tests, and has been tested on 2.5 billion pages indexed by Google.
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XML Can Give the Same Performance as JSON
Many of the presumptions of how slow and resource-demanding "Fat” XML is compared to JSON’s lightweight payload do not hold up to a test David Lee, lead engineer at Marklogic, states after running a "crowd sourcing" experiment with 33 different documents and almost 1200 tests on a multitude of browsers and operating systems.
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Vim Gets Faster Regex Engine, 1000+ Fixes And Small Improvements
Vim 7.4 was recently released, after more than a month of beta. It is more robust and comes with a new, faster engine for regular expressions.
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Agile 2013 Vendor Roundup (Part 4)
Continuing our coverage from the Agile 2013 conference, this is the fourth round up of the vendors who are exhibiting at Agile 2013.
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dotPeek 1.1 Adds Support for Decompilation, Improved Navigation, Bookmarks
The recently released dotPeek 1.1 provides support for decompilation, improved navigation, boomarks, async methods, lambda and LINQ expressions in addition to numbered bookmarks.
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IPython Gets Better Input Transformation Framework, Conversion Tool
IPython, a rich architecture for interactive computing, just reached 1.0. The release sees addition of NbConvert, which converts IPython notebooks to other formats, better flexibility in how user input is handled and more.
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ILNumerics Now Offers Any CPU Support and REPL Visualizations
ILNumerics, a high performance numerical calculation library for .NET, now offers a NuGet package with “Any CPU” support. In a separate release called ILView, a 3D visualization tool with REPL support has been announced.
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Windows Event Log Integration with ETW
ETW or Event Tracing for Windows is a high performance logging system that is available for Windows Vista and later operating systems. On a typical system it can handle over 100,000 events per second, but those events are discarded unless something is listening. With the new EventSource library, a portion of those events can be copied to the Windows Event Logged.
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Ti.Next-What’s It All About Appcelerator?- Part 2 of 2
In his recent post, ‘Thoughts on Ti.Next’ for the Appcelerator web site, CEO Jeff Haynie talked about the reasons that the popular MBaaS provider is busy revamping Titanium, their signature SDK.
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Agile 2013 Vendor Roundup (Part 3)
Continuing our coverage from the Agile 2013 conference, this is the third round up of the vendors who exhibited at the Agile 2013 conference.
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TestCafe with Smart Script Injection, Traffic and Markup Analysis Tools
DevExpress, has recently released a web based testing framework code named TestCafe, which enables you to test user interface of web pages and applications rendered with HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.