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Windows Azure Messaging Features Come To Windows Server
Microsoft has announced public availability of Service Bus 1.0, and it will be free to use with a properly licensed Windows Server. This makes features from Windows Azure Messaging available on in-house infrastructure.
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Async/Await Now Available for Windows Phone, Silverlight 4
An updated version of the Async Targeting Pack now provides asynchronous features to Silverlight 4 and Windows Phone 7.5. It also provides Portable Class Libraries targeting any of the supported platforms, including Silverlight 5 and .NET Framework 4.0.
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International PHP Conference and Web Tech Conference 2012
Overview of the largest gathering of the PHP and Web Community in Europe, which took place last week in Mainz, Germany.
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Community Questions TypeScript and Compile-to-JavaScript Languages
Since TypeScript's release, the software community has had mixed reactions to this new language, with some embracing TypeScript’s way of writing type safe JavaScript and others questioning the existence of the entire compile-to-JavaScript genre.
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JRuby 1.7.0 Released: Defaults to Ruby 1.9 Mode, Can Use InvokeDynamic
JRuby 1.7.0 now defaults to Ruby 1.9 mode and supports almost all of 1.9's features. On recent JVM implementations that support invokedynamic, using JRuby 1.7 can increase application performance.
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Handle Multiple Postbacks with AspQ
AspQ helps you to handle multiple postbacks without any complicated coding. It simplifies the task of developers who want to handle multiple postbacks with ease without compromising performance.
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Interview on Scripted, A JavaScript Editor for Local Development from VMware
Scripted is a new browser-based JavaScript code editor which works locally, having the content being served by a Node.js web server. The editor is being developed by VMware based on Eclipse Orion’s editor component. Scripted was created for developers who want to work locally with a simple and lightweight tool instead of a fully blown IDE.
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SpringFramework Removes OSGi Metadata in Move to Gradle
SpringSource have been an advocate backer of the Groovy-powered Gradle build system for some time. Now that the development of 3.2 is nearing completion, it appears that a casualty of that decision is to stop generating OSGi metadata for the Spring Framework.
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Mono 3.0 Adds Async, Improves SGen GC and More
Miguel De Icaza has announced the release of Mono 3.0, which comes with several improvements such as Async, better SGen GC, improved Eval API and .NET 4.5 compatibility.
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Windows Azure Mobile Services with iOS, E-mail, SMS, Facebook Support
Windows Azure product team has released an update to its mobile services suite with support for ios, E-mail, SMS including the ability to make use of Windows Azure Blob, Tables and ServiceBus with your application.
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Project Jigsaw Late for the Train: Deferment ratified
JSR 337 expert group has ratified Oracle chief architect Mark Reinhold's proposal to defer Project Jigsaw to Java 9. Were the stated reasons sufficient motivation for this deferment?
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Ignite UI for Building jQuery Apps
Infragistics recently shipped a brand new framework for building powerful applications named Ignite UI. It contains numerous controls for the creation of next generation mobile applications. In this news article, Anand examines the features of the framework.
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Mozilla Sweet.js: Extending JavaScript with Macros
Mozilla Sweet.js enables developers to enrich JavaScript by adding new syntax to the language through the use of macros. This helps developers to customize the JavaScript syntax for their style, or to expand it by creating a new JavaScript-based DSL useful for their niche domain.
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Community-Driven Research: Real World Ruby on Rails Usage RFP
As part of InfoQ's ongoing Community Driven Research project, we want to find out how developers are using Ruby on Rails in practice. In this first step, we want to know what you use so that we can collect suggestions for the voting.
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Sencha Releases New Software Developer’s Suite
Sencha recently released Sencha Complete: Team, a full-featured enterprise software suite to help software developers create rich HTML5 apps for popular web browsers and operating systems. InfoQ reports on the community reaction.