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NucliOS: Build iOS Apps with Chart and Grid
NucliOS, developed by Infragistics is a toolset used to create high performance native applications for iPad and iPhone and includes Chart and Grid controls.
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Moscrif – Cross Platform Mobile Development with JavaScript
Moscrif is a cross-platform mobile development environment built on a custom virtual machine. Although this platform provides access to native device functionality, the programming language is a customized version of JavaScript.
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Amazon Provides Simple Workflow Service Recipes
A new Amazon whitepaper provides a set of commonly used programming patterns that can be used in application's decider logic to tell SWF how to coordinate the application's work.
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Corona Improves Hadoop Scalability At Facebook
Facebook has open sourced Corona, an in-house developed improvement to Hadoop MapReduce scheduling software.
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Cross Blog Debates Rage as California Attorney General turns heat up on Mobile Dev’s
Kamala Harris sent shock waves through the mobile app developer community with her authoritarian ultimatum.Time is ticking on her recent 30-day warning of steep fines for mobile software developers selling mobile applications in the State of California that do not issue privacy warnings before their app is downloaded.
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Java EE 7 Expert Group Seeking Community Feedback
As JSR 342, the specification for Java EE 7, makes its way through early draft review the expert group is keen to get community feedback on a number of open issues. These include which of the new APIs should be added to the Java EE Full/Web Profile, as well as how to better align CDI with Java EE.
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Jon Skeet on Noda Time 1.0
Jon Skeet, a software engineer at Google and Microsoft C# MVP, has announced version 1.0 of Noda Time, a .NET port of the popular Joda Time date/time library for Java.
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Will Tschumy on Microsoft Design Principles
Will Tschumy outlined five design principles at the recently held //build/ with a series of screenshots to showcase the user interface enhancements of various products released over the last few years.
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Enhance Productivity with Visual Studio 2012 Power Tools
Microsoft recently released Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012 with three new features to enhance developers productivity.
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Secure ASP.NET Applications with Identity and Access Tool
Microsoft recently released Identity and Access Tool which can be installed from within Visual Studio 2012 and it provides security to ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC applications using advanced techniques.
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Microsoft Open Sources Reactive Extensions
Reactive Extensions (Rx) has been open sourced by Microsoft Open Technologies. This increases the chances that it will be available with Mono soon as well.
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Twitter’s Shift from Ruby to Java Helps it Survive US Election
Twitter's infamous Fail Whale was absent on US presidential election day, even as Twitter's servers were handling a serge of 327,452 "tweets" per minute. The firm was able to handle this level of traffic thanks in part to a gradual shift away from Ruby to Java and Scala
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CSLA.NET Introduces WinRT Support
CSLA 4.5 ships with support for WinRT, .NET Framework 4.5, Silverlight 5 and includes significant enhancements to the business rules engine.
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Upcoming Features In ASP.NET
Microsoft has been working on some interesting features after shipping ASP.NET 4.5. Some of these are available in the Fall 2012 Build preview. Scott Hanselman and Jon Galloway demoed a few of them, at a //build/ session "Bleeding Edge ASP.NET".
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Google Previews Java 7 Support for App Engine
Google has included a preview of the forthcoming support for Java 7 in the October update to their Platform-as-a-Service App Engine