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Tune Up Your Online Privacy with Clef
Clef is like a retina scan for your smart phone, which gives a whole new meaning to Retina Display. You can use Clef as an Open ID to log in from your smart phone only once to access many different web sites when online. Rather than typing in your user ID and password for each web site.
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LightSwitch in VS 2013 Preview with Improvements to Design, JavaScript IntelliSense and API Support
Microsoft in the recently held Build conference announced several features to LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2013 Preview which includes improvements to code editor, JavaScript IntelliSense in addition to integration with team build and code analysis.
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QCon San Francisco November 11-15 - Registration Open; Top 10 Presentations
QCon San Francisco 2013, taking place November 11-15, is now open for registration ($900 savings until July 12th). QCon is an enterprise software development conference for team leads, architects, and project managers covering architecture & design, Java, mobile, functional programming, Lean and Kanban, cloud computing, Big Data & NoSQL, emerging languages, and other timely topics.
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Rails 4 Released: Faster Pages With Turbolinks
The new Ruby on Rails 4 release improves page speed with Turbolinks and makes caching easier. Support for Ruby 1.8 has been dropped and Ruby 2.0 is recommended.
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Java 9 to Drop Support for Compiling 1.5 and Older Source Code
In the future only the compiler will support at most three versions behind the current version.
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LLVM 3.3 Achieves Full C++11 Compliance
The latest release of the multiplatform LLVM compiler project adds new hardware targets, and increases compiler optimizations providing benefits for most users.
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JSF 2.2 and HTML5
Though only a minor release, the updates in JSF 2.2, in particular the ability to pass through HTML attributes without the JSF components needing to be aware of them, are important for developers wanting to use HTML5 technologies in a JSF application.
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Java EE 7 WebSocket Support
Java EE 7 introduces a number of new APIs and changes to existing APIs that cater to web developers using HTML5. There are three areas of interest: a new API for working with JSON, a significant update to JSF for working with new attributes, and a new API for working with the WebSocket protocol, one of a variety of technologies that make up HTML5.
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WinRT/XAML Performance Fundamentals
The three Pillars of Performance, Fast, Fluid, and Efficient, have been the common theme at the performance sessions this year. In the session XAML Performance Fundamentals we see ways to detect and solve problems that prevent us from achieving these pillars.
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NET 4.5.1 Is Bigger Than It Appears
When Microsoft announced version 4.5.1 of the .NET Framework, it would have been safe to assume it is a minor point release. That has turned out to be a false assumption, as this update will affect nearly .NET with a slew of performance enhancements, debugging tools, and increased productivity.
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Build 2013 Keynote Day 2 Highlights
Coverage of Build 2013 continues with the highlights of Day 2's keynote which focused on developers, developers, developers.
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ASP.NET and Web Tools for VS 2013 Preview with One ASP.NET, New HTML Editor, MVC5, SignalR 2, EF 6
The recently released ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 includes new HTML editor for Razor and web project files, ability to build all type of ASP.NET applications from a single dialog, claims based authentication in addition to support for SignalR 2.00 Beta1 and Entity Framework 6.0.0 beta1.
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Adding 3D Printing Support to WinRT and Desktop Applications
Earlier this week it was announced that Windows 8.1 would include native support for 3D printers. Since then more information has been revealed about both application and device driver development. Key to this is the Direct3D runtime and the 3MF spool file format.
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Visual Studio 2013 Remembers C++ Developers
C++ Developers are not forgotten in Visual Studio 2013. Today at Build Microsoft revealed several new features that will directly benefit developers specifically using C++.
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Joy of StackMob
In the beginning of MBaaS, there was StackMob. Since then the mobile ecosystem has become flooded with competitors in this new approach to app dynamics. InfoQ takes a closer look at the Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) provider StackMob and its privacy practices.