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  • Java ME Embedded and Java Embedded Suite: New Java Technologies for the Embedded Market

    Oracle has released Java ME Embedded 3.2 and Java Embedded Suite 7.0, two new additions to Oracle's line of Java Embedded technologies. Java ME Embedded is a Java runtime optimized for microcontrollers and other resource-constrained devices. Java Embedded Suite is a Java application platform for embedded systems, which consists of Java SE Embedded, GlassFish Embedded, Jersey and Java DB.

  • WebMatrix 2: New Templates, Improved Intellisense, Windows Azure Integration

    WebMatrix 2 is a free development tool developed by Microsoft that enables developers to create ASP.NET, PHP based applications easily. WebMatrix 2 includes new templates, improved intellisense with support for Windows Azure.

  • A Proposal for Non-Nullable Types in C#

    Since .NET was still in beta developers have been asking for non-nullable variables with reference semantics. But the problem is far more complicated than simply slapping an attribute or other decoration on the variable. Craig of Twisted Oak Studios has proposed a solution to some of the problems.

  • Dagger: A Dependency Injection Framework For Android

    Dagger is a new dependency injection framework for the Android environment. It offers a subset of features of Google Guice (some of the developers work on both projects) but focuses on a lightweight solution in order to offer better performance. Dagger also attempts to report binding errors during compile time instead of run time.

  • An Interview with David Starr, a Senior Program Manager in the Visual Studio ALM

    David Starr, the founder of ElegantCode.com, a software craftsman, a technical and an agile instructor, talks about his new position at Microsoft, his vision of products, agility and his personal plans for future.

  • InfoQ Research Project Update

    As you may know already, InfoQ is testing a new service that we hope will provide you with up-to-date and bias-free community-based insight into trends and behaviors that affect enterprise software development. After a few weeks of being in production, we wanted to share with you, our community of users, an update on how this project is going.

  • Microsoft's Roslyn Compiler APIs Updated for Visual Studio 2012

    Roslyn, Microsoft's "compiler as a service", has been updated this week with a September 2012 CTP. This release adds support for Visual Studio 2012 (while dropping Visual Studio 2010), introduces new language features for VB and C#, and includes several updates to the APIs.

  • “Drilling” Through the Big Data

    Apache new project Drill is aimed to support real-time interactive analysis of large-scale (terabytes size) data sets.

  • Eclipse Performance Issues in Juno

    In an email thread on Eclipse performance issues in Juno (Eclipse Platform 4.2) Eclipse silver sponsor Cloudsmith cofounder Thomas Hallgren has kicked off a flurry of dialog. Hallgren, an active committer on the Eclipse b3 project, says that after switching back from version 4.2 to version 3.8: "I was stunned by the performance improvement after the switch. The 3.8 platform is much MUCH faster"

  • F# Type Providers – Why And How

    Microsoft Research has published a white paper explaining how Type Providers makes F# useful for accessing and processing “internet scale” information sources.

  • Community-Driven Research: What are the most widely used .NET practices and tools?

    InfoQ's research initiative continues with an 8th question: "What are the most widely used .NET practices and tools?". 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.

  • Upcoming Rails 4.0 Release Drops Ruby 1.8 Support, Improves Background Jobs, Caching And More

    The upcoming Ruby on Rails 4.0 release will drop support for Ruby 1.8 and comes with many new features. The most important ones are support for strong parameters for mass-assignment protection, a new queue for background tasks, and caching improvements.

  • Apache Wicket 6 Released With Integrated jQuery Support

    The Apache Wicket project has released version 6 of its open source, component oriented Java web application framework, with built-in support for jQuery , improved JavaScript event binding, easier OSGI bundling and experimental support for WebSockets.

  • Oracle Launches Free Version of Application Development Framework

    Oracle has today made a free, cut-down version of their Java EE based Application Development Framework (ADF) available for download through the Oracle Technology Network.

  • Azure has its own Chaos Monkey

    Steve Marx, founder of Site44.com, has released WazMonkey, a simple version of Netflix’s Chaos Monkey for Azure. It allows developers to test their Azure deployments in much the same manner as Chaos Monkey tests Amazon Web Services. The methodology of testing employed by both WazMonkey and Chaos Monkey randomly injects real life failure scenarios into existing cloud-based software deployments.

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