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Community-Driven Research: Most Important and Mature Cross Platform Mobile Tools?
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a 4th question: "What are the Most Important and Mature Cross Platform Mobile 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.
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On Lucene.Net: Becoming a Top-level Apache Project and Its Future
Lucene.Net, a C# port of the Lucene text search index library, has graduated the Incubator and has become a top-level Apache project. This article contains an interview with Prescott Nasser on the future of the project and Solr.Net.
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Blend for Visual Studio 2012: Updated UX Tool for Windows 8 Applications
Microsoft has announced the new Blend for Visual Studio 2012, a tool to design user interfaces for HTML and XAML applications in Windows Store 8. All versions of Visual Studio 2012 come with Blend, including Express.
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Entity Framework, Async – In Mono!
Entity Framework has been integrated into the Mono distribution as of 2.11.3 which means it can now be used even outside of the Windows platform. Mono also gets Async support on par with .NET 4.5.
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Improved User Experience with Semantic Zoom
Semantic Zoom is a new touch optimized feature in Windows 8 to present and navigate large sets of content within a single view and to display data controls that leverage deferred loading. With the help of semantic zoom, users can zoom in to inspect individual records or zoom out to see a group of data in a consumable, secondary visualization.
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PhoneGap 2.0 – One Framework, Many Platforms
Adobe Systems has recently released PhoneGap 2.0. PhoneGap provides the ability to build applications for iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Palm WebOS, Samsung Bada and Symbian. PhoneGap 2.0 includes support for Cordova WebView, which enables developers to wrap a web application as a native app by using the browser control available in all the mobile platforms.
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Programming In Non-English Languages - BabylScript
English dominates programming languages today, and projects such as BabylScript are efforts to try and make programming more accessible to non-English speakers. We speak to Ming-Yee Iu, the creator of BabylScript.
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Java 6 EOL Extended to February 2013
Oracle has announced that the end-of-life (EOL) of Java SE 6 has been moved from November 2012 to February 2013. This is to give organizations small and large more time to transition to Java SE 7. This is the second EOL extension given to Java SE 6, the original EOL date being July 2012. The last publicly available release of Java SE 6 will be in February 2013 with the release of Java SE 6u37.
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Git-tf Combines Git With Multi-Platform TFS Support
Microsoft has released a new multi-platform Git tool that allows developers to interact with TFS-hosted source repositories. This open source tool allows developers to use TFS with any platform that supports the Java runtime including Windows, Macintosh OS X, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Solaris, and Linux.
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IG Group Open-Sources RESTdoclet
IG Group has open-sourced its RESTdoclet Maven plugin for generating web documentation from Spring REST based services.
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Network Virtualization Makes its Way to Major Cloud Software Vendors Via Acquisitions
Recent acquisitions by Oracle and VMware accentuate the growing network virtualization market.
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Google Cloud Messaging for Android (GCM) Unveiled, to Replace C2DM Framework
Google has unveiled its Google Cloud Messaging for Android (GCM) service, which improves upon the deprecated Cloud to Device Messaging framework (C2DM) it replaces with no quotas, no sign-up forms and a richer set of new APIs.
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Elizabeth Hendrickson On The Bugs Spread Disease
Elizabeth Hendrickson recently discussed the wasted hours she spent in bug triage meetings. In her blog testobsessed.com she addressed the problem that some organizations spend so much time and money on testing without really leveraging the information testing reveals. Such organisations suffer from severe problems due to what Hendrickson calls the bugs spread disease.
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The Planning Poker Prevents Fallacies in Effort Estimates
In his recent blog posting “Planning Poker: Avoiding Fallacies in Effort Estimate” Hayim Makabee discusses a common problem of effort estimation called planning fallacy and why planning poker helps to avoid it.
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Developing Business Applications For Windows 8
Windows 8 departs from the familiar Windows user interface to introduce a tablet-friendly approach. Developers of traditional applications may rightfully question their role in the new environment. Robert Green offers a look at how these business applications can be designed for a native Windows 8 UI.