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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.
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ReportPlus: Create and Access Dashboards, Reports from an iPad
Infragistics recently announced the availability of ReportPlus which enables you to create and access data, dashboards and reports from an iPad.
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ASP.NET to Add Support for LESS and CoffeeScript
The ASP.NET roadmap has been updated with their post-VS 2012 plans. The next set of features will focus on OData functionality and new/updated templates for MVC. Editor support for LESS and CoffeeScript is also in the works.
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Another Week, Another Java Security Issue Found
Polish security start-up Security Explorations has found another hole that allows hackers to bypass critical security measures, affecting Java SE 5, 6 and 7 - the last eight year's worth of Java releases.
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Oracle Honors London Java Community, Gosling at JavaOne
Today’s Java Community Keynote honored recipients of this year’s Duke’s Choice awards including the London Java Community for its innovative Adopt a JSR program. James Gosling showed of Liquid Robotics’ new robot, Wave Glider, that harnesses ocean wave energy. Other recipients included the Apache Hadoop project, AgroSense, Duchess, NATO, and Parleys.com. This year’s student winner is Ram Kashyap.
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ASP.NET Web API And Dependency Injection
ASP.NET Web API comes with a Dependency Resolver interface that lets you inject dependencies into your controller. However Mark Seemann suggests it is better to use the IHttpControllerActivator interface for this purpose, with a couple of examples.
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Breeze: Develop Data Aware Web Applications with Caching, Change tracking and Validation
Breeze framework enables you to develop rich data centric web applications with intuitive user interfaces with features such as caching, change tracking, validation and batch saves. Breeze is written in HTML and JavaScript and is available as open source.
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TypeScript Released to Improve JavaScript Development
Microsoft has released TypeScript to improve JavaScript application development. Their new language is a superset of JavaScript specification that brings the benefits of type checking and static code analysis while still generating native JavaScript that can be deployed anywhere.
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Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference Kicks off in London
O’Reilly’s Velocity conferences target web ops and performance professionals who like you to learn from their peers, exchange ideas with experts, and share best practices and lessons learned. The Velocity Europe 2012 event focuses on the core issues and opportunities that are specific to the European performance and ops community, as well as the most significant worldwide themes and players.