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ServiceStack Crosses 100 Contributors
ServiceStack is an Open Source .NET and Mono Framework that provides a strong alternative to WCF, MVC and Web API for building Web Services and Applications. The project team recently announced that they crossed 100 contributors milestone. We take this opportunity to dig further.
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Updated Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2012 Adds TypeScript Support
Web Essentials, the extension introduced to add better CSS support to Visual Studio, has recently been updated with new tools for Visual Studio 2012, including support for TypeScript. It also includes automatic downloads of new schema files, so that HTML5 and CSS validation will always be up to date.
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Google Improves Dart and Provides an SDK
Google has released an SDK for Dart and several new language features and improvements, such as: an Editor, Dartium, faster VM, a numbers of libraries, a package manager and others.
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Apache TomEE Jumps to 1.5 With New Database Connection Pool and Scripting Options
The Apache Software Foundation has announced the release of Apache TomEE version 1.5, its Java EE 6 Web Profile certified version of Tomcat. The bump in version number (the 1.0 release only happened in May) reflects the large number of fixes and updates included in the new release.
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Code Review with Comparison, Annotation, Comments and Status Update with Visual Studio 2012
Visual Studio 2012 simplifies the code review task with the ability to compare code files, annotation, comments from reviewers and status updates.
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ASP.NET Anti-Forgery Tokens With JSON Payloads
ASP.NET MVC has AntiForgeryToken helper that allow you to detect and block CSRF attacks using user-specific tokens. However when making primarily ajax requests or using javascript frameworks such as Knockout and Backbone which have JSON payloads, the approach needs to change a bit.
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Querying Columnar Databases with Google Supersonic
Supersonic is a query engine library for columnar databases providing a set of data transformation primitives that Google advertises to be “ultra-fast.”
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Google Publishes Paper On Spanner Ushering a Return to Distributed Transactional Semantics
Scalability vs distributed transactional semantics,is no longer a compromise as per Google's research work on Spanner. Spanner's features include non-blocking reads, lock-free read only transactions and atomic schema changes across a globally replicated relational database. The central idea that tackles the latency issues with distributed transactions is the exposure of clock uncertainty.
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Windows 8 Launch Event with Microsoft Surface Tablet in New York on October 25, 2012
Microsoft is scheduled to conduct a mega launch event on October 25, 2012 ahead of official launch of Windows 8 on October 26. Microsoft will showcase the much awaited Surface tablet and also reveal about the upcoming plans.
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Is It Time For WADL in JAX-RS?
At JavaOne 2012 in a panel session around the future of Java EE, the audience were keen to know whether or not WADL should be a standard part of JAX-RS. Although the panel were unable to agree, the audience appeared to be more pro WADL than against. So is this a good thing or is WADL still considered unnecessary for successful REST?
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Orubase: Develop Hybrid Native Mobile Applications for Windows Phone, Android and iOS
Syncfusion's Orubase is a framework for the development of mobile applications for Windows Phone, Android and iOS platforms. You can create apps using ASP.NET MVC and by making use of the Orubase framework.
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QCon San Francisco 3 Weeks Away (Nov 5-9, 2012); New Keynotes Published; Popular Tracks & Sessions
The sixth annual QCon San Francisco is taking place in just 3 weeks - register before Oct 19th and save $200. Attend the premier west coast event for learning, networking, and tracking innovation in the Java, HTML5, Mobile, Agile, and Architecture communities.
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Twitter Open Sources Clutch
Clutch enables developers to write hybrid applications for iOS and to run A/B test experiments on iOS and Android devices.
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New Stable Releases: jQuery UI 1.9.0 and jQuery Mobile 1.2.0
The jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile teams have announced new stable version of their JavaScript libraries including new features, API redesign, improvements and fixes.
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Visual Studio Update Brings Windows XP Client Support
The Community Technology Preview for Visual Studio 2012 has been released by Microsoft this week. Among the many new features is support for Windows XP clients as well as other updates throughout the product.