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Microsoft Contributes Azure-backed Scale Out of Persistent Connection Framework SignalR
A new open source contribution enables scaled out, high throughput messaging for the asynchronous ASP.NET web event engine, SignalR. In a recent blog post, Clemens Vasters, an Architect on the Windows Azure team, described a new GitHub project that that uses the Windows Azure Service Bus to distribute messages bi-directionally between servers and clients.
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The Current Status of Mozilla’s Boot2Gecko
Mozilla has progressed with Boot2Gecko, an open mobile operating system who’s interface is made up of applications based only on HTML, JavaScript and CSS, and running on top of Gecko. Telefonica, Deutsche Telecom and Adobe have announced their interest in the platform.
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Visual Studio 11: New Shades of Grey Have Developers Seeing Red
Microsoft's recent preview of the VS11 Beta showcases a controversial switch to a primarily grey-scale interface. Developers concerned the new look is a step backwards.
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InfoQ User Survey 2012 - 14 Questions to Help Us Get to Know You
InfoQ would like to better understand your information needs: the type of content you find interesting, the kinds of tools & technologies you are using, and how you interact with the site. Please help us by taking our 2012 user survey - the survey is anonymous and your replies will be kept confidential.
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Avoiding Performance Pitfalls With XAML
The DependencyProperty and DependencyObject which form the building blocks for most XAML features come with a performance cost. An MSDN article “Optimizing C# for XAML Platforms” discusses this in detail along with ways to minimize its impact.
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Oracle Big Data Appliance and Connectors Support Integration with Hadoop and Cloudera Manager
Oracle Big Data Appliance and Big Data Connectors support integration with Hadoop, Cloudera Manager and Oracle NoSQL Database. Oracle announced last month the availability of Big Data Appliance and Connectors as well as partnership with Cloudera. They also recently announced the Advanced Analytics for Big Data by integrating R statistical programming language into Oracle Database 11g.
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WebSockets versus REST?
With WebSockets now a W3C Candidate Recommendation and a new JSR about to start in the JCP, the question arises about how and if WebSockets work with the principles of REST? Do they compliment each other, or will WebSockets, as some people believe, divert attention away from REST and towards a new style of interaction for the Web? There is even the suggestion that WebSockets "breaks the Web".
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Open House at Cogswell College on March 10th
Cogswell College at Sunnyvale, California, is widely renowned for it combination of digital arts disciplines such as video gaming, animation, and software engineering. On March 10th the college will hold an open house for students.
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FluentData: A New, Lightweight ORM with a Fluent API
FluentData is a new introduction to the micro-ORM family that aims to be more straightforward to use than full ORMs like NHibernate and Entity Framework. It uses a fluent API and supports SQL Server, SQL Azure, Oracle, and MySQL.
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Team Foundation Server Express Announced
In conjunction with the upcoming Visual Studio 11 beta release date, Microsoft announced the creation of Team Foundation Server Express. Designed for small developer teams of composed of 1-5 users, TFS Express will be provided free of charge.
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Visual Studio 11 Beta Coming February 29
Leap year is providing a bonus for those interested in testing the latest release of Visual Studio. Microsoft is releasing Visual Studio 11 Beta with .NET Framework 4.5 Beta on February 29, 2012.
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Single Page Applications in ASP.NET MVC 4
The ASP.NET MVC 4 beta includes an experimental project for developing “single page applications”. Known as ASP.NET SPA, this project type is based on a stack of open source libraries and the MVVM pattern made popular by WPF and Silverlight.
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Travis CI Announces Support for Java and Plans for Travis Pro
Travis CI, a cloud-based continuous integration (CI) offering for open source projects on Github, has announced support for Java builds, as well as Scala and Groovy additions. After gaining traction among the Ruby open source community the project is now looking into the possibility of expansion to a hosted CI service (nicknamed Travis Pro).
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ASP.NET Web API – A New Way to Handle REST
Web API is the first real alternative to WCF that .NET developers have seen in the last six years. Until now emerging trends such as JSON were merely exposed as WCF extensions. With Web API, developers can leave the WCF abstraction and start working with the underlying HTTP stack.
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QCon London in 2 Weeks - Only 100 Spots Left!
QCon is now less than 2 weeks away and there are only 100 spots left before QCon London completely sells out. Register before March 2nd and receive £75 off. QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors