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  • Fast Hashes Kill Cryptographic Security

    Troy Hunt demonstrates how the password hashes provided by SqlMembershipProvider are vulnerable to brute force attacks and offers some remedies.

  • Reactions to Mark Reinhold's Recent Announcement of Project Jigsaw's Delay

    Java developers across the ecosystem have been swift to react to Mark Reinhold's announcement last week that project Jigsaw, Oracle's planned modularity framework for Java, will now be delayed until Java 9.

  • Increasing Visual Studio 2012 UI Responsiveness

    Microsoft continues to build performance improvements into Visual Studio 2012. We take a look at some improvements to the Toolbox that could help all users, but especially those with large solutions.

  • OmniFaces: A Utility Library for Java Server Faces

    OmniFaces is a utility library attempting to ease JSF development for Enterprise applications. It offers several solutions for common issues encountered in JSF, including validation for component groups, a renderkit for HTML5, full Ajax exception handling and more. It complements existing JSF implementations such as ICEFaces, PrimeFaces and RichFaces.

  • Community-Driven Research! A new service by InfoQ

    With the launch of our first community research question on "What are the most valuable tools for HTML5", InfoQ is now providing a new service that we hope will provide you with up-to-date and bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviours that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.

  • Inside A DLR Language – IronJS

    IronJS is a ECMAScript 3.0 implementation on the DLR. In a recent interview on i-programmer, IronJS creator Fredrik Holmström goes into the details of implementing a language on top of DLR.

  • Entity Framework Now Open Source

    Microsoft has announced that they are making the Entity Framework open source. The product will continue to be fully supported, with the same development team. They also announced the roadmap for EF6, which includes task-based Async and new features for Code First development.

  • Jigsaw Deferred until Java SE 9

    Mark Reinhold has announced on his blog that the Java Jigsaw modularity proposal has been moved from inclusion in Java SE 8 and deferred into Java SE 9. This will allow Java SE 8 to be released on schedule in August 2013, whilst the modularity proposal can be refined with wider visibility for inclusion in August 2015's Java SE 9 release.

  • Microsoft Brings Cloud Integration Services Onsite with Service Bus for Windows

    This week, Microsoft released a beta of the Service Bus for Windows which has a subset of the functionality contained within the cloud-based Windows Azure Service Bus messaging engine. This is Microsoft’s first step towards delivering its rapidly-maturing cloud integration stack as a self-managed product.

  • Better Tracing And Instrumentation For .NET Apps

    EventSource and EventListener, introduced in .NET 4.5, provide a simple mechanism for applications to trace their events in Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). Combined with a analysis tool such as PerfView, this allows for better tracing of .NET apps.

  • Scala Adding Macros to the Language

    The team behind Scala is adding an experimental version of macros in the forthcoming release version 2.10. Scala macros provide an advanced form of compile-time meta-programming.

  • What's Upcoming in jQuery 1.8, 1.9 and 2.0, and the Removal of IE6/7/8 Support

    The jQuery Core team has recently released jQuery 1.8 Beta 1. The GA release is expected July 2012. The jQuery Core team has also laid out their plans for the next versions of jQuery, versions 1.9 and 2.0, and talks about the removal of IE6/7/8 support.

  • Integrate JavaScript Tests Into Your Development Workflow

    Chutzpah can run JavaScript tests from inside Visual Studio 2012. And TFS extends this by allowing you to run JavaScript Unit tests into your builds.

  • ReSharper 7 Adds Windows 8 Support, New Languages

    JetBrains has announced the availability of ReSharper 7 Beta. In addition to support for Visual Studio 2012, this release includes tools for Windows 8 and WinRT development, additions to the Type Hierarchy, new refactorings, and improved support for several languages, including JavaScript and ASP.Net 4.5.

  • Qualcomm Gimbal: Creating Context-Aware Mobile Applications

    Qualcomm Gimbal is a context awareness platform for Android and iOS enabling mobile developers to add context sensitive functionality to their applications. Basically, with Gimbal, an application will be able to push rich media notifications to a device based on user’s preferences, habits, location and time.

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