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QCon New York Update (June 10-14): JavaScript, HTML5, Future of Mobile Tracks; Schedule Now Live
The schedule is live for QCon New York 2013 with registrations 60% ahead of last year at this time and 65/100 speakers confirmed. Hear about the latest tools, trends, and innovations in Mobile, JavaScript, and HTML5 development across three in-depth tracks and many tutorials. You can get in early by reserving your seat now, saving $400 by Apr 19th.
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Google Promises Not to Sue for Using Their Pledged Patents [Updated]
Google is promising not to take legal action against any party using pledged patents for open source or free software “unless first attacked.”
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GCC 4.8 Completes Move to C++
GCC has become fully implemented in C++ in its new 4.8 release, but the improvements aren't solely internal. The compiler has increased support for C++11, Google's Go, and new compiler optimizations.
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EclipseCon 2013 Roundup
EclipseCon 2013 was hosted in Boston this week, and covered diverse topics from OSGi in the cloud and Eclipse in space. Read on to find more about the key points covered and the winners of the Eclipse community awards.
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Study: Clojure, CoffeeScript and Haskell Are the Most Expressive General-purpose Languages
According to a study, the most expressive general-purpose languages are Clojure, CoffeeScript and Haskell. The study uses LoC/commit as the measuring unit of expressiveness.
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Release Cadence Report - Survey Launched
Ryan Cromwell has released the Release Cadence Report Survey. Based on the premise that the rate at which software is released is one of the most important metrics teams should be monitoring and reporting on he has launched a survey which examines five areas of team activities. The survey will remain open until 24 May 2013, following which the results will be made available to the community.
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WCF Data Services 5.4.0 Released with Client Hooks and Instance Annotations on Atom Payloads
Microsoft has announced the availability of WCF Data Services 5.4.0 release candidate with new features and several bug fixes.
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Docker: Automated and Consistent Software Deployments
dotCloud, a PaaS provider, has open sourced Docker, a key component of their platform. Docker is a LinuX Container (LXC) technology augmented with a a high level API providing a lightweight virtualization solution that runs Unix processes in isolation. It provides a way to automate software deployment in a secure and repeatable environment.
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Use Canary Deployments to Test in Production
Companies use "Canary Deployments" to test software in production by routing a subset of users to new functionality as part of continuous delivery according to Nolio in their 1st video in a series about DevOps Best Practices. A "Canary Deployment" is a type of incremental release performed by deploying a new version of software side by side with its production version counterpart.
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Git in JavaScript Kickstarter Project Funded in 28 Hours
Tim Caswell, a well-known member of the JavaScript and Node.js communities, came up with the idea to reimplement Git in JavaScript and managed to get the project funded on Kickstarter within 28 hours with over 360 backers. The project is another example of Atwood's Law: "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."
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Backbone.js 1.0 Released
After 2.5 years of development, version 1.0 of Backbone.js has been released. Backbone.js is the popular JavaScript Model/View library used for many popular single-page web applications, including USA Today, Rdio and Airbnb.
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Windows Azure Updated with Hadoop, HTML5/JS, CORS, PhoneGap, Mercurial and Dropbox
The recently released Windows Azure updates include support for Hadoop service, HTML5/JS, CORS, PhoneGap including Mercurial, Dropbox, CodePlex and Bitbucket deployment integration.
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Windows Embedded 8 Released
Windows Embedded 8 has been released by Microsoft and entered general availability. Intended to be used by OEMs and in specialized environments, this series of releases marks Embedded's alignment with Windows 8's code base.
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Has Web Style Worked?
Almost 7 years ago Tim Bray declared SOA dead and the future was Web Style. In a recent blog post Jean-Jacques Dubray looks back over the years and decides that Web Style hasn't worked and, given the plethora of non-Web Style services in the Programmable Web directory, is in fact itself dead. He also looks at what this means for computing and the future of application development.
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Integrate BarCodes into Windows Phone Apps
RadControls for Windows Phone Q1 2013 includes components to generate and integrate bar codes into Windows Phone 7 and 8 apps.