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The High Cost of Interruptions
Chris Parnin, publishing under the name “ninlabs research”, has released a study of 10,000 programming sessions recorded from 86 programmers using Eclipse and Visual Studio. His research has found that “a programmer is likely to get just one uninterrupted 2-hour session in a day” and that a programmer can take 10 to 15 minutes to resume work after an interruption.
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Crypto Obfuscator .Net v2013 with Portable Class Library and WinRT
Crypto Obfuscator .Net v2013 includes several new performance enhancements with support for Windows 8 and Automatic Exception Reporting.
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A New Streaming API for Node.js
Node.js, the server-side JavaScript platform built on top of Google’s V8 engine, has included a new Streaming API in its unstable 0.9.4 release. Nicknamed "streams2", it is scheduled to be included in the 0.10 stable release.
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Yeoman: Modern Workflows for Modern Webapps
Front-end developers should take a note of the release of Yeoman, a front-end development workflow.
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Microsoft Creates Catalog of Linux-based Virtual Machines for Windows Azure
Microsoft Open Technologies unveiled their first major offerings in the form of a repository for pre-configured virtual machines that can be quickly deployed to the Windows Azure cloud. The VM Depot is advertised as a place to discover and deploy Azure-friendly virtual machines, and may be Microsoft’s answer to the popular catalog provided for AWS users.
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Internationalization in Visual Studio 2012
Microsoft released Visual Studio 2012 with built-in support for various languages in addition to separate language packs for the development of localized applications.
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Trends in the latest Technology Radar
ThoughtWorks's latest "Technology Radar" focuses on mobile, accessible analytics, simple architectures, reproducible environments, and data persistence done right.
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Adopt-a-JSR Program Online Meetup Today
Adopt a JSR Program is an initiative to encourage Java User Group (JUG) members to get involved in the Java Community Process (JCP) by adopting a Java Specification Request (JSR). The team behind the Adopt-a-JSR program is hosting an online meetup on January 18. This is your opportunity to provide feedback and contribute to JCP process.
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Amazon Web Services Launches AWS Tools For Windows PowerShell
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released tools for the Windows PowerShell scripting environment to enhance support for Windows administrators' management of cloud infrastructure.
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Is C Still A Suitable Language Today?
Damien Katz, Couchbase, believes that C is still a great language for back-end programming, while other developers argue that C has too many flaws, supporting C++ or Java, while others like neither.
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Windows 8 and WinRT - A Close Encounter with Microsoft
Windows 8 throws open a wide range of opportunities for developers. In this marathon interview, Microsoft official spokesperson discloses facts behind the various aspects of Windows 8 and Windows RT.
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Apache Isis: Java Framework for Domain-Driven Design
Apache has released Apache Isis, a Java framework for rapidly developing domain-driven applications. Users focus on developing domain objects and Apache Isis takes care of persistence, security and the user interface. Apache Isis became an Apache top-level project in October 2012 and version 1.0 was released on December 2012.
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ZeroTurnaround Launches New Java Research and Content Organisation
ZeroTurnaround, the vendor behind the popular JRebel and LiveRebel JVM plugins, which accelerate the Java development cycle and automate app deployments to live environments without downtime, have announced a new research and content organisation called Rebel Labs. The organisation will, they claim, offer free, vendor-neutral technical resources for the Java community.
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Minimum Viable Products for Enterprises
Enterprise software startups use a minimum viable product (MVP) to learn about customers with limited effort and money. How can organizations deploy lean startup principles to develop a viable product for their stakeholders?
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Nashorn Voted In as a Successor to Rhino in the OpenJDK Project
The current OpenJDK members have voted Oracle's Project Nashorn, a new JVM-based JavaScript implementation, as a successor to Rhino which is the current JVM JavaScript implementation. Nashorn is due for release with Java 8 in late 2013. It allows JavaScript to be embedded in Java applications and to develop standalone JavaScript applications.