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Community-Driven Research: Ruby On Rails State of Practice - Deployment and Management
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a 15th question about: "Ruby On Rails State of Practice: Deployment and Management". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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KeyboardJS 0.4.1 released
KeyboardJS, a library written to make working with the keyboard in JavaScript a lot easier, last month saw its 0.4.1 release, which includes a number of bug fixes and new features.
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DotNetNuke - 10 Years of Transformation
From IBuySpy Workshop to DotNetNuke - 10 Years of Evolution for the Largest Web CMS platform on Microsoft .NET
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Oracle Releases Security Fix for Java 7
Oracle today released Java 7u11 with security fixes for remote code execution vulnerabilities related to escaping the applet sandbox through crafted reflection API calls. Read on to find out more about it, and how to find out if you are affected or not.
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Ambient Light and Proximity Enter the DOM
The W3C has introduced a series of APIs that allow developers to interact with a device and a variety of peripherals. Two of these specifications, "Proximity Events" and "Ambient Light Events" have entered their Last Call stages as drafts and in the coming months will enter the Candidate Recommendation stage wherein implementations will begin to appear.
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What is the future for GWT?
The newly formed Google Web Toolkit (GWT) steering committee recently published “The Future of GWT Report”, which captures the opinions, usage patterns and hopes of over 1300 Google Web Toolkit users worldwide.
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Microsoft Refreshed .NET Framework 4.5 with Updates
Microsoft has recently released updates for .NET Framework 4.5 which fixes reliability, compatibility, stability, and performance issues associated with WPF, CLR, Windows Forms, XML, NCL, ASP.NET, WWF, WCF and Entity Framework.
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What is the Future of Vert.x?
When Tim Fox, project leader of the open-source Apache Licensed project Vert.x, left VMWare in December he had intended to continue working on the project after joining RedHat at the start of this year. However, VMWare now own the trademark and project assets, and it's not clear whether it can continue under the same name. Read on to find out what happened, and what the current situation is.
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Cordova/PhoneGap Adds Support for Windows Phone 8
Cordova 2.3.0 now supports Windows Phone 8 and adds a way of opening a browser window within the application.
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Researcher Breaches Windows RT's Security System
An independent security researcher has discovered a way to run unsigned desktop applications on Windows RT running on Microsoft's Surface. InfoQ has an exclusive interview with the creator of the exploit.
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Windows Azure Updates: Job Scheduler, Command Line Support, ACS and Media
Microsoft recently released several updates for Windows Azure with background job scheduler, addition of North Europe region, mobile support for command line tool and support for SQL Data Sync services.
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RadPivotGrid with Filters and OLAP
Telerik recently released RadPivotGrid control that enables you to build Microsoft Excel look and feel applications for WPF and Silverlight.
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A Fist Full of RIM, For a Few Mobile Devs More
All of the ducks are in the proverbial row for the much ballyhooed debut of Research In Motion’s Blackberry 10 (BB10). The all new OS is slated for release on January 30, 2013. InfoQ scrutinizes the salient facts and more to gain the most in-depth perspective on the new release from the venerable developer.
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QCon London in 8 Weeks (March 6-8): Barbara Liskov (MIT) Keynote; New Tutorials; Schedule Now Live
The QCon London 2013 schedule is now live, with new sessions and speakers being added daily. Hear MIT's Barbara Liskov on "The Power of Abstraction" during her Day 1 keynote, followed by Perl aficionado Damian Conway, who explores "The Power of Dead Languages". With less than 8 weeks left, you can still save up to £341, if you register by Jan 11th.
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Orubase, Hybrid Mobile Apps that Embrace Native Code
Usually when we hear about “hybrid mobile apps” what people really mean is PhoneGap, a HTML app with a thin wrapper. Or worse, it’s an app builder that works at first but quickly dead-ends. It seems that Syncfusion’s Orubase is different. It is a true hybrid application framework where developers are encouraged to freely mix HTML and native code so we are giving it another look.