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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.
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.NET Goes Immutable
One of the most common misunderstandings in .NET development is the idea that variables of type IEnumerable or ReadOnlyCollection are thread-safe. In order to offer truly thread-safe collections for scenarios where you would be tempted to use IEnumerable or ReadOnlyCollection, Microsoft’s Base Class Library (BCL) team is offering a preview of a new set of immutable collections.
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ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 with Knockout IntelliSense
The recently released ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 includes support for Web API, knockout IntelliSense, friendly URLs including several feature enhancements.
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Cassandra Gets Atomic Batches, Virtual Nodes, CQL Improvements
Cassandra 1.2 was recently released with several improvements such as virtual nodes, atomic batch support, better performance and more.
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NetAdvantage Reporting with Hierarchical Data and Enhanced Report Engine
Infragistics NetAdvantage Reporting 2012 volume 2 includes support for Hierarchical Data and Visual Studio 2012. It also ships with an Enhanced Report Engine and Pagebreak Control.
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Learn some RegEx for the New Year
If you are looking for something to learn for the new year, its hard to go wrong with regular expressions. With dialects available on every major platform, it’s a skill that will continue to pay dividends throughout your career. One way to get started is Firas Dib’s Regular Expressions 101.
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Introducing the F# Software Foundation
An independent group of developers and companies have joined forces to create the F# Software Foundation. This organization’s goal is to “is to promote, protect, and advance the F# programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of F# programmers.”
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WiX v3.7 - MSBuild, Self Update and Reference Counting
The recently released WiX 3.7 includes support for MSBuild, self update and reference counting
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Sync Block Edit Simplifies Code Editing
Sync Block Edit is a Visual Studio extension which simplifies code editing in multiple files.
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Building Type Providers for F#
Over the last year lots of Type Providers for F# were released for a variety of data sources including AppSettings, Excel, XAML, and the statistical programming language R. And with many of these being offered as open source projects, learning how to create your own has become much easier.
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Power Tools Update 1 for TFS 2012 with Backup and Restore Tool
Microsoft recently released Power Tools Update 1 for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 with Backup and Restore Tool including set of additional enhancements.
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Windows Azure Mobile Services with Push Notifications Support
Windows Azure Mobile Services team announced support for push notifications via APNS and improvements to iOS Objective C SDK.
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HTML5 and Canvas 2D Are Feature Complete
HTML5 and Canvas 2D have reached Candidate Recommendation status, High Resolution Time and Navigation Timing are Recommendation, while HTML 5.1 and Canvas 2D Context Level 2 are Working Drafts.