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Multi-Factor Authentication For Windows Azure Hosted Apps
Microsoft recently announced preview of Multi-Factor Authentication in Windows Azure. This can be enabled for Windows Azure Management portal, Microsoft Online Services such as Office 365, as well as custom applications.
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Multi-Touch Behaviors Package for Windows Phone and Silverlight Now Available on NuGet
Davide Zordan has recently released a new package on NuGet which enables developers to build Windows Phone 8 and Silverlight applications enabled with gesture behaviors.
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Portable Compression Libraries for .NET 4.5, Windows Store and Windows Phone
Microsoft has released a beta of a new portable library called Bcl.Compression that adds support for zip archives and compress streams (i.e. deflate and gzip) for the Portable Http Client. Unfortunately it requires a native library so Silverlight and Windows Phone 7.x developers are out of luck.
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Eclipse goes to GitHub
With the migration of Eclipse repositories to Git, the Eclipse Foundation is looking to make it easier for people to contribute code via enabling a Contributor License Agreement and facilitating projects to be hosted on GitHub to take advantage of social features.
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API Diff Lists for .NET, Silverlight, and Windows Phone
First Floor Software has just released an updated version of their Diff Lists for .NET, Silverlight, and Windows Phone. These updated lists make it easy to see what classes and method are available when moving code from one platform to another.
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Compile Scala to JavaScript With Scala.js
At the Scala Day last week, Sébastien Doeraene presented Scala.js, a Scala to JavaScript compiler. The compiler supports the full Scala language allowing its users to build web applications front to back in Scala and potentially reuse code between the server and the client.
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Xamarin Releases New Guides with Samples Based on Evolve 2013 Training Sessions
Xamarin has released a new set of guides based on Evolve curriculum which provides a comprehensive coverage of the various aspects of the various APIs with the help of relevant samples.
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TypeScript Release Adds Generics
The latest release of TypeScript adds generics and further increases its ability to support large-scale applications. TypeScript is Microsoft's entry in the growing field of languages that target JavaScript as a platform.
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Dart Has Entered Beta with Faster VM, Editor and dart2js
20 months after the initial announcement of Dart, the language and its associated VM have entered beta with milestone M5. There are many small improvements in the current release, the most important ones being related to the Editor, VM, and dart2js.
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Martin Fowler at GOTO Amsterdam 2013 about Agile Essence and Fluency
Martin Fowler talked about software development in the 21st century, discussing agile essence and how teams adopt agile. He presented at the GOTO Amsterdam 2013 conference how teams can increase their agile fluency, from a first star level up to four stars.
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MobileCloud for TFS Enables you to test Windows Phone, Android, iOS and BlackBerry Applications
MobileCloud for TFS, recently released by Perfecto Mobile provides an ability test Windows Phone, Android, iOS and BlackBerry based mobile applications directly from Team Foundation Server in addition to test, execute, report, track and collaborate projects.
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Entity Framework 6 Brings Breaking Changes
In order to support the new open source model for Entity Framework, it had to cut its ties to the core distribution of the .NET Framework. Unfortunately this required a breaking change to the namespaces exposed by the ORM in version 6.
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Twitter API v1.1 with JSON and OAuth1.0a Support
The recently released Twitter API V1.1 ships with support for JSON and provides an ability to authenticate apps via OAuth1.0a.
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Yahoo! Open Sources Storm on Hadoop
Last week Yahoo! announced the open source release of Storm on Hadoop cluster. This implementation enables Storm applications to utilize the computational resources of a Hadoop cluster along with accessing Hadoop’ storage resources such as HBase and HDFS.
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Fries: Building a Native Android Interface with HTML, JavaScript and CSS
Inspired by Ratchet, an iPhone application prototyping framework, Jaune Sarmiento has created Fries, a small framework for creating the UI of Android applications using just HTML, JavaScript and CSS, no native code. While many have done similar interfaces, Fries mimics the native Android 4.0 interface pretty well.