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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.
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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.