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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.
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Oracle and Google Plan Appeals of Verdict in Java-Android Trial
Oracle and Google will both appeal a jury's findings that Google infringed copyrights but didn't steal patents when it used Java as the basis for Android, its mobile operating system.
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Windows Azure Management Portal with Service Bus, Media Services and Virtual Machine Monitoring
Microsoft has updated the Windows Azure Management Portal with several features such as Service Bus, Database Management, Media Services and Virtual Machine Monitoring. These changes are available to all existing and future subscribers who make use of Windows Azure to deliver cloud computing for their applications.
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Cassandra Storage Engine for MariaDB
MariaDB has announced a preview of the Cassandra Storage Engine. This is a plugin that allows MariaDB to access Cassandra clusters using normal SQL syntax.
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Community-Driven Research: Top 20 Web Frameworks for the JVM
InfoQ's research initiative continues with an 10th question: "Top 20 Web Frameworks for the JVM". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Google App Engine Adds Continuous Integration Through Jenkins
Thanks to a partnership with cloud software provider CloudBees, Google App Engine users can now use the continuous integration tool Jenkins to build, test, and deploy their cloud applications. This new service continues a general PaaS trend of providing continuous integration tools that connect to leading source control repositories.
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JSONiq: The JSON Query Language
JSONiq is a new query language that builds upon XQuery. Like SQL or LINQ, it has syntactic support concepts such as let, for, where, group by, and select.
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PhoneFactor Acquisition Enhances Security of Microsoft Applications with Multi Factor Authentication
Microsoft has recently acquired PhoneFactor, which provides multi factor authentication by making use of user's phone. According to official sources at Microsoft, this development will bring new security mechanism for Microsoft products.
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Valgrind Support for MonoTouch
MonoTouch developers may now use Valgrind-based dynamic analysis tools on their iOS applications.