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Experience Based Principles for Succeeding at SOA
After many years of working in the SOA field, Jean-Jacques Dubray has written down what he believes are four principles for helping to achieve successful SOA.
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To Live and Code in Kinvey MBaaS
Second in a series of articles about the organizations back of the burgeoning category of Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), InfoQ takes a gander at Cambridge, Massachusetts company Kinvey, Inc. Kinvey’s third party data integrations, support for multiple platforms, notifications, versioned API’s and business logic features expedite the developer’s backend.
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WCF Data Services 5.3.0 with Instance Annotations and request URL
Microsoft has released WCF Data Services 5.3.0 with support for instance annotations in JSON payloads, modifying request URL in the OnStartProcessingRequest method including few bug fixes.
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Visual Studio Round Up
Microsoft moves DevLabs to the Visual Studio Gallery. February brings the third CTP for VS2012's Update 2. And Axum is remembered.
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Microsoft’s Cloud Guidance Addresses SQL Server
Microsoft's guidance on how to deploy a SQL solution in Azure addresses many concerns such as service level agreements, maintenance, and scalability. Additionally, a framework is offered which helps developers make this decision based upon their solution's specific needs.
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Xamarin 2.0 Brings a New IDE, Visual Studio Add-in for iOS and a Component Store
Xamarin has made yet another major step in completing their vision on providing a set of common tools for cross-platform mobile development. With the announcement of Xamarin 2.0 comes a rebranding of their products, a new IDE called Xamarin Studio, a Visual Studio add-in for iOS development, and a component store, the later being detailed by Miguel de Icaza for InfoQ.
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Are Developers Introverted or Extroverted? Are They Intuitive or Logical?
A new Evans Data survey has performed an ample study meant to uncover some of the characteristics of the developer community. Are developers introverted or extroverted? Are they intuitive or logical? Do they prefer virtual or real rewards? What is most worrisome for their carrier? And many others.
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ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 with Enhancements for MVC, Azure and SignalR
Microsoft has released ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 with enhancements for ASP.NET WEb, MVC, Windows Azure authentication including support for SignalR.
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Syncfusion WinRT 2013.1 Released with 14 New Controls
Syncfusion has released WinRT 2013 volume 1 with which you can build windows store apps using guage, grid, PDF, Word, Excel including the ability to integrate reports.
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Security Enhancements in Android 4.2.2
Android 4.2.2 includes security enhancements such as application verification, Always-on VPN, certificate pinning, installd hardening including few other security fixes.
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Petition to Unbundle Ask Bar from Java
Oracle's practice of bundling the Ask Toolbar into the Java installer has resulted in a petition and some heated responses.
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Meet Travis CI: Open Source Continuous Integration
The Travis CI Foundation transitioned to a brand new build system on January 30th, both simplifying and bolstering the capacity of their open source continuous integration testing solution.
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Reveal.js: A 3D Presentation Framework; Version 2.2 Released
Hakim El Hattab released version 2.2 of reveal.js on January 28th, fixing a handful of bugs and implementing a host of new features in the JavaScript 3D presentation library. Reveal.js, like other work from Hattab, leverages modern browsers to exploit CSS 3D transformations to explore depth of the browser canvas.
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ANTS Performance Profiler 8: Web request, Async code, WinRT
ANTS Performance Profiler 8 beta release provides support for Web request, Async code, Windows Store Profiling including that of SharePoint 2013. In this interview, Ben Emmett, Red Gate Software shared additional information about the new features.
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Google App Engine Adds Support for Java 7
Google App Engine introduces experimental support for Java 7, Cloud Endpoints, and Cloud Messaging Service for Android.