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JetBrains Launches Toolbox under New Subscription Model
As previously announced, JetBrains has launched the Toolbox, a collection of their desktop tools –IDEs, utilities and extensions – using the new subscription model which basically means paying monthly or yearly instead of one upfront payment.
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Rust 1.4 Brings Major Improvement to Cargo
The Rust core team has released 1.4 stable, with approximately 1200 changes including a major improvement to Cargo, stabilised APIs, and fixes to improve the behavior of associated types.
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Measuring the Performance of Single Page Web Applications
Measuring the performance of single page applications (SPAs) presents some unique challenges. Philip Tellis, author of the boomerang library and Chief Architect at SOASTA, and Nicholas Jansma, senior engineer at SOASTA, deep-dived into the subject at the Velocity conference in Amsterdam, providing context and specific advice on how to measure performance for that kind of web applications.
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New Releases: Ceylon 1.2, Node.js 5.0 and Atom 1.1
Ceylon, Node.js and Atom have all seen stable upgrades this week, and we have decided to write a common post covering most notable features and enhancements that come with these new versions.
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JavaOne 2015 Preview
In preparation for JavaOne 2015, InfoQ held a Q&A session with a number of speakers at this year's conference that caught our eye.
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Node.js 4.2 "Argon" Released Under Long Term Support Plan
The Node.js Foundation have released Argon, the first Node.js release covered under the Long Term Support plan.
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Angular 2: "We're Really Close"
In the keynote session at AngularConnect in London, Brad Green and friends gave attendees an overview of where Angular 2 is and made some important announcements. Angular 1 is still in full-force, but Angular 2 is shaping up to be a major force on the web and on mobile.
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Firefox Will No Longer Support Plug-ins Except for Flash
Mozilla has announced the end of NPAPI in Firefox by the end of 2016, the only plug-in continuing to be supported being Flash.
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Microsoft Enables Async/Await in Edge Preview Build
Microsoft has enabled the async/await JavaScript function syntax in a preview build of its Edge browser. The feature is likely to become part of the ES2016 standard and its implementation in browsers is a necessary step.
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Meteor Release Galaxy, a Hosting Environment for Meteor Apps
Meteor has released Galaxy, its long anticipated cloud service for managing Meteor applications. In the blog post Announcing Meteor Galaxy, Matt DeBergalis says users "deploy Meteor apps into Galaxy with the same meteor deploy command you're already used to" and that it comes with the "day-to-day basics" including application logs and SSL cert management.
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Q&A With Speakers of the Enterprise Java Track at the Upcoming JAX London
In less than a couple of weeks, a new edition of JAX London will be held at the Business Design Centre. Running from 12th to 14th October, this year’s edition has 12 tracks, covering topics from Agile and Craftsmanship to Enterprise Development through DevOps, Cloud and deep-down Java. InfoQ talked to some of the speakers at the Enterprise Java track to get a glimpse of the contents of JAX London.
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Lightweight JavaScript Library Offers Flash-Free Clipboard Integration
Clipboard.js is a lightweight library to copy text to the clipboard without using Flash.
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Reduce the Risk of Failure With Elm
At Strange Loop 2015, Richard Feldman gave an overview of how using Elm in production has sped up his team's development cycle and improved the quality of their app.
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Meteor 1.2: ECMAScript 2015 and support for AngularJS, React
Meteor 1.2 has been released, announcing ECMAScript 2015 as the official JavaScript of the Meteor platform, along with support for Angular and React.
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JavaScript Streams Introduced at Strange Loop
At the Strange Loop 2015 conference, Pam Selle introduced streams in JavaScript, showing what they're good for and how developers can use them.