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X-Mas Showcase: High Scalability and Usability Rule
Who ever has wondered what kind of software is used by Santa Claus & Co, got a hint recently in youtube. This might irritate some software engineers who have assumed, Santa Claus would only use Open Source Software.
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IEEE’s Hans Karlsson Standards Award 2012 for Paul R. Croll
IEEE announced that the Hans Karlsson Standard Award 2012 has been given to Paul R. Croll for dedicated leadership of the IEEE Systems and Software Engineering Standards Committee, and for his diplomacy and collaboration in facilitating the development of a collection of high-quality standards.
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Riak NoSQL Database: Use Cases and Best Practices
Riak is a key-value based NoSQL database that can be used to store user session related data. Andy Gross from Basho Technologies recently spoke at QCon SF 2011 Conference about Riak use cases. InfoQ spoke with Andy and Mark Phillips from Basho team about Riak database features and best practices when using Riak.
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Team Foundation Service Update: Improved Navigation and At-A-Glance Project Status
Microsoft's Team Foundation Service Preview, the Azure-hosted beta version of Team Foundation Server 11, has been updated with enhanced homepages, performance improvements, reworked navigation, a simplified UI for small team projects, and detailed email notifications.
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Ruby on Rails: 3.2 RC1 Released, 4.0 Will Drop Ruby 1.8.7
The Ruby on Rails team announced the first release candidate of Rails 3.2. New features include a faster development mode, an explain feature for database queries and several smaller features. After 3.2, the next major release of Rails will be 4.0 and drop support for Ruby 1.8.7
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Interview with Julie Lerman on Programming Entity Framework: Code First
The dotNetMontreal community hosted a seminar by Julie Lerman on the Entity Framework Code First approach. Code First is essentially a new programming style for generating a database directly from code. Entity Framework enables developers to create data access applications by programming against a conceptual application model instead of programming directly against a relational storage schema.
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Preview of Visual Studio 11: DirectX and SharePoint Features
Visual Studio 11 will introduce some new editor features intended to make developing for DirectX and SharePoint easier.
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Apollo Next Generation Message Queuing Posts Some Impressive Benchmarks
Apollo is a next generation message queuing solution that recently posted some impressive benchmarks against RabbitMQ, HornetQ, and ActiveMQ. The benchmarks indicate that Apollo will be on a lot of developer's roadmaps for messaging.
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WebStorm 3.0: JetBrains Provides a More Complete JavaScript IDE
WebStorm 3.0 adds support for Node.js, CoffeeScript, JSLint, JavaScript Unit Testing and includes enhancements of the JavaScript and XSLT debuggers.
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CXXI Brings Advanced C++ Interop To Mono
CXXI, a new C++ Interop framework, allows easy interoperability between C# and C++ in Mono. Developers can, from C#, easily instantiate C++ objects, invoke C++ methods, subclass C++ classes, and more.
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CloudBees Releases Jenkins Enterprise
CloudBees releases Jenkins Enterprise which offers commercial support, extended long time releases up to a year and extra proprietary plugins useful to companies with large scale Jenkins installations.
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PhoneGap Now Fully Supports WP7
PhoneGap now supports all native functionality on Windows Phone 7 being on par with iOS and Android.
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Code Signing For Individual Developers
Code Signing is a mechanism for software users to trust executable code that is published on the internet before downloading and running it. Until now, this was practically beyond the reach of the individual developer, due to costs and processes involved. However, some stores are now offering Thawte code-signing certificates for individual developers for $99 per year.
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Scrum Alliance to Strengthen ScrumMaster (CSM) Certification
The CSM Certification from the Scrum Alliance is granted to individuals that participate in a two day certification course and complete a pass/pass (e.g. can’t be failed) test. The testing process will be changed in 2012 to include a pass/fail test, and a new Professional Development Unit (PDUs) program will be rolled out no later than January 2013 for CSM’s to maintain their certification.
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Sensor Networks - GEOCens finished its Pilot Phase
In December the GEOCens (Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Sensing) is finishing its pilot phase, as the not-for-profit organization Cybera has recently published at GISUser.com. The software architecture is supposed to improve researcher access to international environmental data drawn from more than 60,000 sensors and 2,800 web map servers.