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Windows Azure Adds Active Directory, New Backup Service, Monitoring and Log Improvements
Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows Azure Active Directory, new backup service with support for incremental backups including several monitoring and log improvements.
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Sails 0.8.9: A Rails-Inspired Real-Time Node MVC Framework
Version 0.8.9 of Sails, a real-time MVC framework built atop node.js, was released on April 9th by Austin, TX-based Balderdash in an ongoing effort to bring a Rails-like development platform to modern web apps
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LLVM Authors Have Received One of the ACM Awards 2012
ACM has granted their 2012 awards for innovation in computing, including the Software System Award to LLVM creators.
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CouchDB 1.3.0 Adds New Features and Algorithm Enhancements
Apache Software Foundation has released CouchDB 1.3.0 with support for Fix _session, Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) including additional features and algorithm enhancements.
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Google's Go Readies 1.1 Release
Version 1.1 of Google's Go is in beta, and brings significant reported performance increases, new toolset & language features. It maintains backwards compatibility with Go 1.0 and in most cases a recompile is the only thing needed to take advantage of this release.
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BDD Tool Cucumber with a Larger Team and Numerous Bugs Fixed
The project for Cucumber, a Behaviour Driven Development, BDD, tool, has recently increased the team and intensive work last months has brought open bugs down substantially, Aslak Hellesøy revealed when talking about the Cucumber ecosystem during a Cucumber conference day last week.
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Dart2js Outperforms Hand-Written JavaScript in DeltaBlue Benchmark
Google released a new version of the Dart2js compiler, whose generated JavaScript code now outperforms hand-written JavaScript in the DeltaBlue benchmark, a commonly used benchmark for benchmarking object-oriented languages.
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IBM Mobile First- MBaaS, Big Data and Then Some for Enterprise
IBM has assembled a comprehensive portfolio of applications whereby enterprises can catch up to today’s current mobile computing trends. Mobile First is designed to enable enterprise to get their share of the billions of dollars that the firm maintains is being left on the table by the organizations that are not gearing up for this trend.
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Microsoft Office Developer Tools - Search Configuration Template, App Validation and Azure Debugging
The recently released Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 provides a new search configuration project template, ability to validate apps during the submission process and Windows Azure debugging.
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Blossom Switches to Dart
In a blog post, Thomas Schranz has announced that his company will be porting their Blossom product, a web-based Kanban board for product teams, to Dart, Google's new web programming language and platform that can be used as a replacement of JavaScript.
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Struts 1 Reaches End Of Life
Struts 1, the venerable Java MVC Web framework, has reached End Of Life status, the Apache foundation has announced. In a sense, the move simply formalises what has already happened, as the Struts team have focused their efforts on version 2; the last release of Struts 1 was in December 2008. The change of status does mean that no further security patches or bug fixes will be issued.
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Gartner's Technology Trends for Information Infrastructure: Big Data, NoSQL and In-Memory Computing
Big Data, NoSQL databases and In-Memory computing are some of the technologies that will play key role in modernizing information management in 2013 and beyond, according to Gartner. A recent report released by Gartner team identifies the top technology trends that will have impact on the information infrastructure and governance.
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Formally Released
Microsoft has formally released Update 2 for Visual Studio 2012. This update brings several new features but also includes numerous big fixes and behavior corrections.
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EZNamespaceExtensions.Net v2013 Adds Context Menus, Thumbnail, Icons, Property Sheet Support
EZNamespaceExtensions.Net v2013 enables you to develop Windows Explorer namespace extensions using Visual Studio with support for Multi-level sub folders, Thumbnail view, Icons, Property sheet, Infotip and much more.
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WSO2 Developer Studio 3.0&3.1 Have Better ESB Tooling
WSO2 Developer Studio 3.0 and 3.1 improve ESB and Registry Resource Editor tools, has better performance, uses Eclipse Juno SR2, and supports JAX-RS REST code generation.