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GitHub Adds Web-Based File Edit and Commit Feature
GitHub just added a new feature: files in the web view of a Git repository can now be edited and then committed in the browser. A similar feature was added to Google Code a few months ago.
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Thoughtworks Technology Radar July 2011
ThoughtWorks recently published its Technology Radar; a report to help technology leaders understand emerging technologies, identify strategic platforms and tools and prepare their organizations for them.
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TFS To Get Modify-Merge-Commit Style Version Control
The next version of Team Foundation Server will include a feature called Local Workspaces, which will allow Subversion Style “Modify-Merge-Commit” Version Control. This will make it much easier for developers new to TFS get acquainted to the Version Control Model compared to the current model of “Server Workspaces”, and make working offline easier.
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Thymeleaf: XML/HTML Template Engine for Java
Thymeleaf is an XML/XHTML/HTML5 template engine that works for web and non-web applications. It's an open source Java library distributed under Apache License 2.0. Thymeleaf is a replacement for JSP and other template engines like Velocity and FreeMarker. It comes in two versions, the Standard dialect and the SpringStandard (Spring MVC 3) dialect.
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Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging Minified JS As Well As CoffeeScript and other JS Languages
Debuggers for Javascript are powerful - but only for plain Javascript. Minified Javascript and languages compiling to Javascript are not supported, ie. that means no breakpoints or accurate log messages for CoffeeScript, ClojureScript etc. InfoQ looks at the current situation and at the recently launched projects at WebKit and Mozilla that aim to fix it.
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Twentieth Anniversary of the World Wide Web
This weekend represented the 20th anniversary of the announcement of the World Wide Web. The length of a patent is twenty years; had the first server been patented then we would only now be able to innovate on top of one of the cornerstones of today's global economy.
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RIM to Offer Android Applications this Summer
RIM is continuing to flirt with development platforms. With Silverlight forgotten and Flash not really having a market to speak of, the next big target is Java and the Android marketplace.
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Eclipse 3.8M1 Brings Java7 Support
Eclipse 3.8M1 has been released, which brings official Java7 support to Eclipse development environment. It will become available for Eclipse 3.7.1 in September this year.
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Web Intents: Google's Mechanism for Inter WebApp Linking
Are you spending hours writing custom code to integrate with various third party service providers from your web application? Google's Chrome team is working on a master API for moving the onus from the developer to the user through analogous late run-time binding mechanisms used by the Intents system on the Android OS.
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Java7 Hotspot Loop Bug Details
Last week, Oracle released Java7 to great acclaim. However, an issue identified by the Apache Lucene project pointed to a specific hotspot optimisation bug which kicks in when a loop is executed more than 10,000 times. How serious is this issue, and does it warrant the kind of negative press that has been played out over the last few days?
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Adam Messinger Talks to InfoQ About Java 7 and 8
Following on from last week's release of Java 7, InfoQ spoke to Adam Messinger, Vice President of Development in the Fusion Middleware group at Oracle, to get more information about the release and Oracle's plan for Java 8.
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Gorilla Logic Release FlexMonkey 5, Open Source Testing Tool for Adobe Flex and AIR
Gorilla Logic have today announced the availability of FlexMonkey 5, their open source automated testing tool for Adobe Flex and AIR.
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Debugging Mobile Web Apps: Weinre and JSConsole Now, Remote WebKit Eventually
Debuggers in mobile web browsers are anemic at best. InfoQ takes a look at existing workarounds and tools like Weinre and JSConsole, as well as the upcoming changes in mobile browsers that will bring full debugging support. Also: the two mobile browsers that already live in the future and ship remote debugging support.
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Java SE 7 Released: First Major Update Since December 2006
Java 7 is generally available from today, the first release of the Java platform since Oracle's acquisition of Sun. The release includes a number of small but welcome changes to the language, incorporates a new file API and the Fork/Join Framework, and improves dynamic language support on the JVM.
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QConSF November: Speakers, Sessions Update, Attendance up 100%
Our 5th QCon San Francisco takes place on Nov 14-18, 2011. Last year QConSF sold out early, and this year we are already 100% above last year’s registrations at this time! Registration is open and all 16 track themes have been announced. Most of the conference sessions are still in development and have not been posted online yet. Save $550 by registering before July 29th.