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Windows Store Game Development with Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit
Microsoft recently demonstrated the samples included with Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit for the development of 3D apps and games for Windows Store.
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JAX-RS 2.0 and Bean Validation 1.1 First Java EE 7 JSRs to Win Public Approval
Java Enterprise Edition version 7 is well under way. Late last month JSR 339 and JSR 349 were adopted by the public review ballot, making them the first two JSR's to be ratified. InfoQ spoke to Marek Potociar, JSR 339 co spec lead about the latest version of the RESTful Java API.
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How to Await Just About Anything
Lucian Wischik is publishing a series of blog posts showing how Await can be used in a wide variety of situations ranging from awaiting an animation to complete to capturing the results of a command line program.
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Fastbook: Sencha Wants to Prove HTML5 Is “Ready”
Sencha has created Fastbook, an HTML5 application closely mocking Facebook’s native application and displaying similar performance both on iOS and Android in an attempt to demonstrate that “HTML5 is ready.”
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Why Bother to Develop a Windows Phone 8 App
To date Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 is still a distant fourth in the battle for the hearts and minds of Mobile OS users. Google App Director, Clay Bavor stated that they ‘have no plans to build out Windows apps.’
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Google’s Service Changes Spell Trouble for Windows 8
Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 rely on a technology known as Exchange ActiveSync. This technology is the communication protocol that allows applications in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 to synchronize email, calendar, and contact information from Google accounts. As of January 30th, that service will no longer be available new users.
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Twemproxy – Proxy For MemCached And Redis
Twemproxy is a proxy server that allows you to reduce the number of open connections to your Redis or Memcached server.
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An Errors List Underscores the Need for Static Code Analysis
Program Verification Systems, the creator of PVS-Studio, a static code analyzer for C and C++, has published a list of programming errors, some of them being found in popular open source projects such as Chromium, TortoiseSVN, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, and others.
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What is "Agile Coaching"?
When companies request support for agile adoption, the question arises what agile coaching is, and what companies expect from agile coaching?
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Entity Framework 6 Alpha 2 with Custom Code First Conventions
Microsoft recently announced the release of Entity Framework Alpha 2 with custom code first conventions and several other performance enhancements.
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.NET Tools And Practices Research Insights
The community research we published on .NET tools and practices had more than 650 votes leading to some interesting results. We attempt to draw insights.
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Spring Migration Analyzer: An Assistant For JavaEE To Spring Conversion
Spring Migration Analyzer is a command line utility, that takes as input the binary archive of a JavaEE application (e.g. an EAR file) and creates a report, containing JavaEE technologies used, along with advice on effort required to migrate them to Spring/Tomcat. It attempts to create an easier migration path for those who wish to migrate an existing JavaEE application to the Spring framework.
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Agile 2013 Conference Submissions Open
The Agile Alliance has announced that submissions are now open for speakers and reviewers for the Agile 2013 conference to be held in Nashville, in August 2013
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Couchbase Releases Couchbase Server 2.0 GA
Couchbase Server 2.0 main features include flexible JSON data model, distributed indexing and querying, incremental map-reduce, and cross data center replication.
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DotNetNuke 7 with Active Directory and SharePoint Lists
DotNetNuke 7 has been recently released with support for Active Directory and SharePoint Lists. Richard Dumas, Senior Director of DotNetNuke Corp speaks exclusively to InfoQ on the recent release.