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Shoehorning Java into RESTful Design
In a recent Zapthink article the author discusses why Java and JAX-RS 2.0 are not always appropriate for building RESTful services. Much has been said about the improvements in JAX-RS 2.0 but it is the Java object model which the author believes is at the heart of at least one of the problems, with REST being shoehorned into Java or vice versa.
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Self Evaluate User Experience of Apps
In the Build 2012, Lora Heiny, Senior Program Manager, Windows Partner Ecosystem and Will Tschumy, Principal User Experience Advisor at Microsoft delivered a session where they presented few tips which should be followed to evaluate the UX of a Windows 8 application including that of Windows Store apps.
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Build Cross Platform Applications with Xwt
Xwt is .NET Framework based open source UI toolkit for Mono and .NET and is used for the creation of desktop applications that run on multiple platforms from the same codebase.
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50 Tricks for Faster Web Applications
Jatinder Mann, an Internet Explorer PM at Microsoft, held the session 50 performance tricks to make your HTML5 apps and sites faster at BUILD 2012, providing many tips for creating faster web applications.
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Integrate SkyDrive with .NET and Windows Phone 8 SDK
Microsoft recently released software development kit which enables developers to integrate SkyDrive into .NET and Windows Phone 8 applications.
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Big Data In The Cloud
Big Data services available from cloud computing vendors such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google are uncovering interesting trends and opportunities.
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State of the Lambda
With next year's Java 8 less than twelve months away, Brian Goetz has published an updated State of the Lambda, covering the improvements to the Java Collections API. With one of the most anticipated features of Java 8 being the introduction of lambda expressions, key support for these in the Java collections API is key to ensure wide use of the libraries.
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RabbitMQ Gets Simpler, Better At STOMP, MQTT
RabbitMQ 3.0 was recently released with STOMP 1.2 support, new plugins for Web-STOMP and MQTT, more user-friendly commands for clustering, per-message TTL, several performance improvements and more.
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JustCode Q3 - Improve Productivity by Reducing Keystrokes
JustCode Q3 ships with several new features which enables developers to minimize coding by automating frequently used tasks and thereby improving productivity.
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ModelMapper: An Object To Object Mapping Library
ModelMapper is an object to object mapping library that eliminates repeatable code for copying objects from one representation to another. By looking at property names it can perform an automatic mapping or hints can be defined that describe precisely the mapping process. It is inspired from AutoMapper which is a similar library for .NET
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.NET Compact Framework 3.9 with Visual Studio 2012 Support
Microsoft will release .NET Compact Framework 3.9 (NETCF 3.9) in the upcoming build of Windows Embedded Compact 2013 with improved start-up time, enhanced memory utilization, Visual Studio 2012 support and new garbage collector.
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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.