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Scala+GWT Brings Scala to the Browser, New Documentation Site and Scala Days 2012 Announced
Scala+GWT makes it possible to run Scala in the browser, the latest release supports most of the language. The new Scala+GWT Eclipse plug-in uses GWT's development mode for faster turnaround. Also, the Scala team announced a new documentation website and the date for 2012's Scala Days conference.
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Numerical Computing with F#
F# is emerging as a great choice for Numerical computing. Reasons? Functional design, libraries such as PowerPack, MathProvider and Math.NET and the interoperability of the .NET Framework.
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JDK Enhancement Process
In the middle of this year, Oracle launched a new process called the JDK Enhancement Process, or JEP for short. What is it all about?
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BndTools provides OSGi Development in Eclipse
Neil Bartlett has released BndTools 1.0, an OSGi development environment for Eclipse. BndTools provides a way of developing OSGi bundles with Eclipse. Instead of defining dependencies by direct editing of the Manifest.MF, it uses Bnd files to drive a toolchain based on the Bnd tool.
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Scrum Extensions Update - 4th Quarter 2011
This is the 4th quarter 2011 update of scrum extensions. InfoQ will be looking at proposed and approved extensions each quarter to see how scrum changes and evolves.
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Paul Clements appointed Vice President of BigLever
BigLever, one of the few companies focusing on product line engineering, has recently appointed Dr. Paul Clements Vice President of Customer Success. Clements is well-known as one of the pioneers of software architecture in general and product line engineering in particular.
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Restfuse 1.0.0 - A Library For Easy REST/HTTP Integration Tests
EclipseSource has released the first stable version for an open source JUnit extension that automates testing of REST/HTTP services supporting both synchronous and asynchronous calls.
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SQL Server Integration Services 2012 to Include ODBC Support
With SQL Server abandoning OleDB in favor of ODBC, it is no surprise that SQL Server Integration Services is finally picking up ODBC support. Another important feature slated for SSIS 2012 is the much needed support for CSV files.
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PhoneGap Status: Moving to Apache and Adobe, Plugin Modularization, PhoneGap/Build Service
Working with PhoneGap is getting easier: Plugins make PhoneGap more modular and extensible for developers. PhoneGap/Build is an online service for automatically building PhoneGap applications for different platforms. InfoQ talked to Nitobi's Brian LeRoux about the technical future of PhoneGap at Adobe and Apache.
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New DAX Editor Simplifies PowerPivot Formula Creation
Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) is a language used to construct formulas in PowerPivot tables and Excel PivotTables. Until this point there hasn't been an editor for DAX that supports syntax highlighting, IntelliSense, and other basic Visual Studio Features.
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appMobi Open Sources Its Mobile Platform During Black Friday
appMobi wants to make mobile web applications more attractive by open sourcing several technologies: JavaScript Bridge API –a cross-platform API providing access to the hardware-, mobiUs Web App Browser –a browser that looks and behaves like a native application, and HTML5 Game Acceleration – a Canvas object that improves HTML5 speed for games.
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APIs Can Be a Pain
In his new post Subbu Allamaraju discusses some of the problems with current APIs usage and suggests the introduction of an additional layer responsible for aligning APIs to the client requirements.
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Preview of Visual Studio 11: New IDE Features
Our Visual Studio 11 preview continues with an overview of some new features of the Visual Studio 11 IDE.
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Opinion: Is Scala the new EJB 2?
Stephen Colebourne, developer of the Joda Time library and spec lead for the JSR date time improvements to the Java language, has posted a thought-provoking piece on the applicability of the Scala language. He compares it to EJB 2, which he said was the nadir of the Java EE specification as being something which "added more complexity without providing the expected gains."
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Preview of Visual Studio 11: New Programming Language Features
Each release of the Visual Studio environment typically introduces new features to both its IDE and the programming languages it supports. S. Somasegar, Vice President of Microsoft's Developer Division recently presented some of the new programming language features coming in Visual Studio 11.