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Azure Toolkit for Eclipse Added Support for WebSphere Liberty and Application Insights
The Java development team at Microsoft Open Tech has released the latest version of Azure Toolkit for Eclipse that includes support for IBM WebSphere Liberty and Microsoft Application Insights. Available on Github, Azure Toolkit for Eclipse with Java is a plugin for developing, testing and deploying Java projects on Microsoft Azure.
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Introducing Behaviour-Driven Development
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) can help in overcoming the gap between the developer’s understanding of what needs to be built and the business’ understanding of the technical challenges caused by the requirements. The reason is improvement in communication between the two groups, Alistair Stead and Konstantin Kudryashov explains in their Beginner’s guide to BDD.
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Node.js Releases Version 0.12
Node.js has released version 0.12, its first significant release since 2013's 0.10. The much-anticipated version 0.12, once described as "imminent" in January 2014, comes with a raft of Module and JS API changes, an updated version of V8, and many debugging enhancements. Significantly, it also comes with initial support for ECMAScript Internationalization API 1.0 (ECMA-402).
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Config Management Camp: Beyond Configuration Management
Mitchell Hashimoto, founder of HashiCorp and creator of Vagrant, presented the first Config Management Camp keynote, describing the status of the datacenter in the past and today, the existing problems and outlining solutions, such as distributed systems, failure tolerance or usage of containers.
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Apple Prepares Swift 1.2 For Release
Apple has made available Swift 1.2 with a developer release of Xcode 6.3. A number of improvements have been made to both the compilation speed and also performance of the compiled code. Read on to find out what else is new, and what steps need to be taken for migrating from earlier versions of Swift.
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Is.js Offers Simple Way to Check Data
The micro-check library is.js offers JavaScript developers a quick way to check data for type conformance, regexp matching, arithmetic comparison, and more.
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Google Dumps SPDY after HTTP/2 Enters "Last Call"
Google has announced giving up SPDY after HTTP/2.0 has integrated the protocol and its standardization is in its final stages.
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Reveal 1.5 Released, Adding 35 New Features Including Auto-Layout Support
Itty Bitty apps last week released (http://revealapp.com/features/#debug) version 1.5 of their iOS layout debugging app Reveal; which features 35 new features and a refreshed user interface.
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FOSDEM Virtualization: Docker Integration in oVirt and Live Migration of Containers with CRIU
Federico Simoncelli, principal software engineer in the virtualization department at Red Hat, explained the integration status between oVirt, Docker containers and Kubernetes, and Andrey Vagin, software engineer at Parallels, covered the work done in the CRIU project to enable live migration of containers, at the virtualization developer room at FOSDEM.
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CoffeeScript 1.9 is Available, Introduces Generators Support
CoffeeScript 1.9 has finally introduced support for long awaited generators, which promise to prevent callback hell and help writing async code.
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Going Beyond Agility with Antifragility
Antifragility emphasizes embracing chaos or randomness through adapting and evolving. It can help enterprises to be more able to deal with and even gain from uncertainty and disorder, making them more flexible and adaptive to events that happen.
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New Task Parallel Library Features in .NET 4.6
.NET’s Task Parallel Library is seeing a tune-up in the soon to be released .NET 4.6. In addition to some helper methods that reduce code, and possibly memory usage, TPL is gaining a solution to a tricky problem with SetResult.
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CoreOS Release Rocket and App Container Specification v0.3.1.
CoreOS have released v0.3.1. of the Rocket container runtime and associated App Container (appc) specification, which includes new user-facing features and several important implementation changes that contribute to the stated goals of security and composability.
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Using Cost of Delay to Quantify Value and Urgency
Joshua Arnold facilitated a workshop about Cost of Delay at the Lean Kanban France 2014 conference. InfoQ did an interview with Arnold in which he talks about the cost of delay: what it is, why it matters, the importance of quantifying it and some tips for getting started.
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Udi Dahan on Defining Service Boundaries
Udi Dahan, a SOA consultant, held the presentation Finding Service Boundaries – Illustrated in Healthcare at NDC London 2014, providing advice on establishing the service boundaries in a SOA or microservice architecture.