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Visual Studio Gets Git
Git, the popular open source distributed version control system is now natively supported by Visual Studio 2012 and the Team Foundation Service. Microsoft's new plug in provides native support and provides an alternative to the centralized source control model.
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Oracle Will Stop Providing Security Updates for Java 6 Next Month
The last publicly available release of Java 6 is to be released on February 19th 2013. After that date all new security updates, patches, and fixes for both the runtime and SDK of Java SE 6 will only be available through My Oracle Support, and will therefore only be available to users with a commercial license with Oracle.
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Oracle's Head of Security Promises to Fix Issues and Improve Communication
Following a spate of high-profile security issues, Oracle's head of Java Security, Milton Smith, is promising that the vendor will fix issues with the platform, and improve its communication to community members.
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PhoneGap 2.3.0 with Windows Phone 8 Support
The latest release of PhoneGap provides support for Windows Phone 8, InAppBrowser and also several improvements and bug fixes.
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Greg Young on using Event Store as a Read Model
Greg Young, the lead architect behind the Event Store, recently talked about the Projections Library in the Event Store and how it can be used as a Read Model. In his presentation Greg explained what the Projections Library is, together with its main use cases. He also presented a number of examples of practical use.
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Stay Connected with HelpBridge
HelpBridge, a free mobile app for Windows Phone, Android and iOS platforms developed by Microsoft enables you to keep in touch with your contacts during emergencies.
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Kii Cloud Back End Features Analytics and Monetization
If you want to gain a significant presence in the Asian mobile community, Kii Cloud provides a snap in back end for your iOS, Android or HTML5/JavaScript mobile app. It’s free to add a comprehensive back end that features analytics and monetization to your app during its current Beta run.
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Plans for Spring Framework 4.0 Announced - Includes Support for Java SE 8 and Groovy 2
VMware's SpringSource team have recently announced plans for Spring 4.0, the next update to the framework, with new features including support for Java SE 8, Groovy 2, parts of Java EE 7, and WebSockets. InfoQ spoke to Spring framework co-founder Juergen Hoeller to find out more about the plans.
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Heroku Dataclips 2.0 - The Gist of Data
Heroku Dataclips 2.0 are a new way of sharing data - much like GitHub Gists. Exposing results of running SQL statements agains Postgres databases, Dataclips render in HTML, IFrames, CSV, XLS and JSON. Supporting revisions and versioning as well as forking they work as self-updating stand-alone data views or as simple HTTP based data APIs.
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Try F# - Learn, Create and Explore
Try F#, recently launched by Microsoft enables a developer to master the techniques associated with F# programming language in an unique way.
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Architectural Homeopathy
In a recent article Steve Jones discussions a group of people he calls Architectural Homeopaths, who make critical architectural decisions based on "powerpoints and opinions" but with a lack of clear evidence to support them. He says they are prevalent in IT and believes that those people who push REST for enterprise integration fall into this category.
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CryptoLicensing v2013 for .Net with Activation Console, Mono for Android Support
CryptoLicensing v2013 for .Net includes license service activation console, new methods, properties with support for Mono, Android platforms including several improvements and bug fixes.
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H.265 Codec Standard Has Been Approved
The H.265 codec standard, the successor of H.264, has been approved, promising support for 8k UHD and lower bandwidth, but the patent issues plaguing H.264 remain.
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SvcPerf - Trace Analysis Tool for WCF Released
Microsoft recently released SvcPerf which is an end to end ETW based trace viewer for manifest based traces.
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Mono Improves Aync Support and MonoDevelop Adds NuGet
MonoDevelop now has integrated support for NuGet while the Mono project sees various improvements with release 3.0.3.