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Getting the Avengers with Marvel Comics API
Recently, Marvel has made available a public API and a RESTful service which provides access to their comics metadata.
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Interactive SQL in Apache Hadoop with Impala and Hive
In the race for interactive SQL in Big Data environments, there are two open source based front-runners, Impala and Hive with the Stinger project. Cloudera recently announced that Impala is up to 69 times faster than Hive 0.12 and can outperform DBMS. Other than raw speed, we take a look at other considerations in choosing a SQL engine for Hadoop and also Tez, an application framework for YARN.
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Weathr, a Comprehensive Demonstration of C++ 14, DirectX, and XAML
Weathr is a fully functional 3D weather app that demonstrates the use of modern C++ (both ISO and C++/CX), DirectX, and XAML. It also shows the use of PPL and lambda expressions for asynchronous communication with REST-based servers.
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First CTP Released for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
A CTP has been released for the second upcoming update to Visual Studio 2013. This CTP brings updates to several areas and provides several new and expanded features unlike Update 1.
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Microsoft OpenTech Brings SQLite to Windows Phone and Windows Store
Microsoft is now offering an official version of SQLite for Windows Phone, Windows Store, and .NET 4.5. The library is available as a Portable Class Library, so developers can use as a basis for their own portable libraries.
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Build Web, Hybrid or Native Web Apps with Telerik Platform
Telerik Platform provides a mechanism to build web, hybrid and native based iOS, Android and Windows Phone apps either using web based dashboard, desktop or Visual Studio.
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Resources to Start Developing for Firefox OS
Firefox OS pursues “the goal of building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web” and lets users install and run applications created using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It is based on Linux and Mozilla's Gecko and is a completely open stack that is 100 per cent free from proprietary technology. It allows developers to contribute to its code base or develop mobile apps.
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Plugins Provide New Customizations to VS2013
New extensions AutoHistory and File Nesting bring some interesting usability enhancements to Visual Studio 2013. Read on for how they provide new ways to customize your editing experience.
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Balancing Experiments and Deliveries in Product Development
Experimentation using for instance lean startup can help you learn about your customers and find out which features and product would be valuable. The value however comes from building products and actually delivering them to customers. You need to find ways to balance between experimentation and delivery.
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The Colossal Problem with Bletchley Park and TMNOC
Today is the 70th anniversary of Colossus, the first electronic computer ever created. Its purpose was to crack the Lorenz encrypted messages, and started operations on 5th February 1944. However, all is not well at Bletchley Park as the National Museum of Computing is being increasingly marginalised in a bitter dispute.
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QCon New York 2014 (Jun 11-13): Track Topics Announced; Featuring OSGi DevCon 2014
The 15 track topics have been finalized for the third annual QCon New York (Jun 9-13) including: Creating Culture, Continuous Delivery, Data Science, Architecture Case Studies, JavaScript, Mobile, and more. New this year: OSGi DevCon 2014 will be co-located with QCon New York, taking place at the New York Marriott Brooklyn Bridge. Register before Feb 15th and save $600 for both events.
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HybridCluster announce free non-commercial licenses
HybridCluster have announced a free for non-commercial use license for their cloud hosting platform. The platform supports Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) applications, and provides high availability and auto scaling with a combination of ‘AwesomeProxy’ a proprietary multi-protocol proxy server, lightweight containers and a ZFS based storage fabric.
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Google Cast SDK Adds MPEG-DASH, Adaptive and HTTP Live Streaming Support
Google has released Cast SDK with which developers will be able to integrate Chromecast into both new and existing mobile apps and websites with support for adaptive streaming, MPEG-DASH, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and SmoothStreaming.
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DataFu Enters Incubation Status at Apache
LinkedIn’s DataFu project, a collection of libraries for Hadoop, has now officially entered the incubation status at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) since the first week of January.
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Google Acquires Nest: Big Data Comes to Energy
Google has acquired Nest, maker of smart thermostat and smoke detectors, for $3.2 billion in cash, making it another major data source that will help Google understand how people live.