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AutoUpdater.NET: An Easy to Use Alternative to ClickOnce
For applications distributed outside of the Windows Store, having an update mechanism is crucial. For roughly a decade ClickOnce was the standard approach used for .NET applications, but many still find it hard to customize and troubleshoot. So alternatives such as Ravi Patel’s AutoUpdater.NET were developed.
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CppDepend now Supports C and C++14
CppDepend is a primarily a source code analyzer, with features geared towards making it easier to understand large code bases with complex interdependencies. In addition, it can integrate with static analyzers. With the introduction of version 5, CppDepend now supports C and C++14.
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Written in PowerShell, a HTTP API for Executing PowerShell Scripts
REST and REST-like interfaces over HTTP are all the rage these days. Not too long ago we told you about Oracle releasing a prototype of their HTTP-based API for MySQL. Not to be out done, Steve Lee of Microsoft has released sample code for exposing PowerShell over HTTP. And to make it interesting, this web server is written entirely in PowerShell.
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Rust Plans Roadmap to 1.0 Beta
The development team for the Rust systems programming language has released its schedule for the first beta release of the forthcoming 1.0 release. Rust is designed to provide the features of modern programming languages while retaining the power of C/C++.
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New for Internet Explorer: HTTP/2 Support
As part of the Windows 10 Technical Preview, Internet Explorer will offer HTTP/2 support, performance improvements to the Chakra JavaScript engine, and a top-level domains parsing algorithm based on publicsuffix.org.
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RubyMotion Releases Android Public Beta
RubyMotion recently announced that its Android Support had entered public beta, which should allow early adopters to get started now developing for the Android platform. RubyMotion is a terminal based toolchain used to create native iOS, Mac, and now with this beta version, Android applications, using the popular Ruby language and tools.
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Updated Feature List for C# 6 and VB 12
As the next version of C# gets closer, features that are not quite ready have to be cut. The features. Newly removed from the list are primary constructors and declaration expressions.
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Java One - Final Day and Community Keynote
Summary of the JavaOne 2014 Community Keynote, including material dropped from the opening keynote.
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JavaOne Press Panel - Java EE and IoT
Oracle execs discuss developments and roadmap in Java EE and Internet of Things
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Emerging Languages: A Look at The Last Five Years
In a recent article, Alex Payne, organizer of the Emerging Languages Camp, provides insight on how the language landscape has changed in the last five years and how it might change in future. InfoQ has talked with him.
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Xen Bug Forces Amazon and Rackspace to Reboot Their Services
Last week Amazon Web Services and Rackspace notified customers that their servers would be rebooted as a part of Xen hypervisor patching. This is the second time that AWS has scheduled reboots as a part of its cloud infrastructure maintenance, and AWS published guidance for building applications resilient to reboots and restarts.
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Version Numbers, Backwards Compatibility, and Windows 10
There is a lot of speculation as to why the next version of Windows will be called “Windows 10”. And while we’ll probably never know what happened behind the closed doors of the marketing department, there are solid technical reasons why it can’t be called “Windows 9”.
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Kickstart Agile the Kanban Way
Successful adoption of agile is related to the approach that is used to introduce changes in the organization. Organization can do a top down “mandated” implementation or use a different approach. Kanban can be used as a way to kick start agile, allowing teams to opt-in to agile practices when they feel ready for it to create a sustainable new way of working .
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Stack Overflow Adds Live JavaScript to Answers
Developers have a new browser-based code editor to play with, but this time, it's embedded in another tool. Stack Overflow, the popular question and answer site for software developers, announced the release of a new tool that lets users run JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code right in the question page.
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JavaOne Press Panel - Community and Java SE
Oracle execs hail community involvement in success and adoption of Java 8, announce better security features, but small number of new features.