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Nokia Imaging SDK with Support for Effects, Filters, Smart Camera, Auto Enhance and RAJPEG
Nokia recently released an Imaging SDK for Windows Phone 8 with 50 pre defined effects, filters including support for smart camera, simple auto enhance, frame, RAJPEG with patented JPEG technology including the ability to enhance the speed and memory performance of mobile apps.
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Google Dart Developments: Polymer Replaces Web UI
Google Dart is going to dump Web UI, replacing it with Polymer. From the outside, the main differences are in data binding and handling events.
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Harlan with Support for Rich Data Structures, Trees, Ragged Arrays and Higher Order Procedures
Harlan programming language developed by Eric Holk, a doctoral student at Indiana University provides support for rich data structures, trees and ragged arrays in addition to higher order procedures.
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Safety, Software, and Accelerated Learning
Agile methods have the potential of creating great results. But those great results are not a guarantee; in fact anecdotal evidence suggests that those great results are only achieved by a small percentage of those teams and organizations adopting and adapting agile methods. There are invisible requirements for this success. One of these requirements seems to be safety.
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Debug iOS Applications with Reveal
Similar to Firebug for HTML pages, Reveal lets developers debug iOS user interfaces. It connects to running applications and offers the possibility to modify various UI parameters without rewriting code or rebuilding and redeploying the application.
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Windows Phone 8 to be Updated with VPN, S/MIME and Increased Support
Microsoft recently announced the proposed release of an update for Windows Phone 8 with support for S/MIME, VPN in addition to increased support lifecycle and a certificate management tool.
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The Current and Future Performance of the Mobile Web
In a substantial, well-researched blog article, Drew Crawford lays out all the reasons why he believes mobile web applications are slow today and why he does not expect this dramatically improve in the near feature.
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GlassFish 4.0 Technology Roundup
Oracle Corporation released GlassFish Open Source Edition 4.0, what they are branding as the "World's first Java EE 7 Application Server".
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Why Do Teams Find It Difficult to Do Agile Retrospectives?
Retrospectives are often considered to be a valuable agile technique, but sometimes teams have difficulties doing them: insufficient control of things, thinking that they can’t improve, difficulties defining good actions, or much complaining. Teams may find retrospectives boring, and a waste of their time. How to deal with this, and help teams to discover better ways to do retrospectives?
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Dropbox Now Can Hold Structured Data with Datastore API
Dropbox has released Datastore API which provides access to key-value stores with support for synchronization between devices using the user’s Dropbox account and including automatic conflict resolution.
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Hibernate adds OSGi Support
Hibernate, the popular Java ORM, has recently added OSGi support. InfoQ caught up with Brett Meyer to find out more about the challenges involved.
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Visual Studio 2013 Simplifies Windows Store Apps Development with Improved Exception Reporting
The recently released Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 Preview editions includes improved reporting for exceptions that enables C++ Windows Store App developers to easily identify and fix errors.
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Announcing Open RIA Services
WCF RIA Services will soon be rereleased under the Apache 2 license as Open RIA Services. In preparation for this some functionality is being dropped from Visual Studio 2013.
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Get Started With Behaviour-Driven Development Focusing on the Domain Instead of on the Database
Start using Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) when designing an application and focus on the domain instead of the database, Julie Lerman, a Microsoft MVP since 2003, suggests. BDD lets developers focus on user stories and behaviour in the business domain when building up logic and tests. New to BDD, Julie has implemented a working example using Visual Studio, C# and SpecFlow.
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Create and Share 3D Bings Maps with Power Map Preview for Excel 2013
Microsoft announced the release of Power Map Preview for Excel 2013 at the Worldwide Partnet Conference which enables you to create Bings charts in 3D. It also provides an ability to share scenes and tours with other users in your community.