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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.
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Windows Azure Extends their MBaaS with Custom APIs and Git Support
Shortly after Google announced their Mobile Backend Starter for Android applications, Microsoft has announced the extension of their Azure mobile services adding support for Custom APIs, Git, NPM, Android Push Notifications, and a free SQL DB.
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Microsoft To Developers: Our Cloud is Ideal for Application Development and Testing
Last week, Microsoft shipped a series of improvements to Windows Azure that were focused on cost control and lower barrier to entry. While they updated their cloud services – including SSL support for Windows Azure Web Sites and introducing a new integration service – Microsoft’s primary updates were targeted directly at developers who are considering the cloud for their dev and test environments.
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The Database as a Value
During QCon New York 2013, Rich Hickey gave a talk on functional databases. Hickey is well known for creating the Clojure programming language and is currently developing Datomic, which is a functional database. During his talk, Hickey argued that the useful properties of functional languages: data as values and pure functions, are just as useful in the context of databases.
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What's New in JMS 2.0?
After 11 years, JMS 2.0 has been released as part of Java EE 7, with a focus on simplicity. InfoQ takes a look at some of the new features.
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Best Practices for Google Play App Distribution
With the rapid growth of mobile apps, you need to take special care while distributing your app by following certain rules and best practices recommended by Google.
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AngularJS Is Being Ported to Dart
AngularJS is being ported to Dart, offering a parallel implementation of Google’s JavaScript framework.
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Wrangling WebRTC: Challenges and Opportunities for Real-Time Communication
At QCon New York 2013, Gustavo Garcia gave a talk on WebRTC, the new real-time communication component of HTML5. WebRTC is a set of technologies that enable real-time, low-latency communication between peers, for instance to used for video and audio conferencing as well as gaming.
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The Post-HTTP Era: Real-Time Web Apps With Meteor
During the HTML5 Track at QCon New York 2013 Matt DeBergalis gave a talk on Meteor, the open-source real-time web application framework that DeBergalis co-founded. On the modern web, clients get increasingly capable and more and more work happens in the client. However, the tools to build these modern web applications, DeBergalis argues, have not caught up.
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Q&A With Oracle Vice President of Software Development Anil Gaur on the Java EE 7 Release
Oracle is officially launching Java EE 7 with a webcast later today. Ahead of the release InfoQ sat down with Anil Gaur, vice president of software development at Oracle, to find out more about this release and future plans
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Oracle Officially Launching Java EE 7 and Glassfish 4 Today
Oracle is officially launching Java EE 7 with a live webcast today at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 5 pm London, and a repeat performance at 9 pm PT / 12 am ET (Thursday) / 2 pm Sydney (Thursday). Along with the release Oracle has put out added a reference implementation for the specification in the form of GlassFish 4.0, and we are expecting to see an official release of Netbeans 7.3.1 in due course.