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YourKit Released the 2013 Version of its Profilers
For the recent 2013 version release of their Java Profiler, YourKit focused on improving its high level data collection features. The intention of the so called J2EE high level profiling is to get insight into the logical processing, rather than just providing timing information.
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Salesforce go API-first with Salesforce1
At the recent Dreamforce event in San Francisco Salesforce launched their Salesforce1 platform. The initial deliverables focus on mobile, and aim to improve on the earlier ‘Touch’ user interface by having a richer set of underlying application programming interfaces (APIs). The launch has been accompanied by new application and admin mobile apps.
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Noda Time 1.2 Released with XML, JSON Serialization and Text Formatting
The recently released Noda Time 1.2 provides support for XML and JSON serialization, text formatting and also includes an assembly that enables developers to handle JSON serialization.
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How to Scale the Product Owner Role
The product owner role from Scrum is used to interface between the business and development. In larger organization with complex products and many decisions that need to be made, having this role filled in by one person is often not feasible. InfoQ did an interview with Timo Punkka about the role of the product owner, lean portfolio management, and customer collaboration.
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Release of BizTalk Services Signals “Cloud First” Transition for Microsoft Integration Platform
After a long incubation period, Microsoft released its cloud-based integration tool called Windows Azure BizTalk Services. While reiterating their commitment to their on-premises integration tools, Microsoft has said that it will push innovation to its cloud platform first.
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Microsoft Envisions One OS Running on Mobile Devices and Sensors
During a UBS Global Technology Conference held last week, Microsoft’s Julie Larson-Green, EVP Devices and Studios, discussed her company’s approach to today’s software market, providing insights especially into the mobile device operating systems space. We selected the most interesting fragments from the session’s transcript (HTML, DOCX).
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Streaming Big Data With Amazon Kinesis
Amazon recently announced Kinesis, a service that allows developers to stream large amounts of data from different sources and process it. The service is currently in limited preview.
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Telerik LightBox Control with Templates, Items Collection, Automatic Resizing and Paging
Telerik has added LightBox control to its ASP.NET control suite with support for templates, items collection in addition to advanced features such as automatic resizing, keyboard navigation and paging.
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Visual Studio's C++14 Support Grows
A new CTP for Visual Studio 2013 allows developers to sample increased support for modern C++11/14 features. The CTP can be used with both Visual Studio Express and VS2013 Professional or greater.
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Nokia Imaging SDK 1.0 Adds Filters, WinPRT API, Enhancements and Sample Demos
Nokia has recently released Imaging SDK 1.0 at the Slush 2013 with 50 built-in filters, improvements related to memory management, WinPRT API library in both managed and native code in addition to sample apps which demonstrate the capabilities of the new features.
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Amazon Web Services announces three new instance types
Amazon Web Services have announced three new instance types for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure as a service. I2 instances use solid state disk (SSD) to deliver high input/output performance, C3 instances tie each virtual CPU to a hardware hyper-thread for compute intensive workloads, and G2 instances offer Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) for 3D applications.
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Agile 2014 Conference Call for Submissions Open
Submissions are now open for talk proposals the Agile 2014 conference to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA in July 2014
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Case Studies of Lean and Kanban from Central Europe
The 2013 international conference in Central Europe about Lean and Kanban (LKCE13) included presentations about change management, systems thinking, leadership, learning, and teamwork, and case studies from larger organizations that have applied Lean and Kanban. InfoQ interviewed Arne Roock about deployment of Lean and Kanban in agile software development.
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New Owners for Unity.Mvc and Unity.WebAPI
The team behind the website FeedbackHound has taken ownership of the Unity.Mvc and Unity.WebAPI. These open source libraries allow for integration between ASP.NET MVC & Web API and Microsoft’s IoC framework, Unity.
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Microsoft to Stop Honoring SHA1 Certificates for SSL and Code Signing
Following recommendations by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, Microsoft intends to stop honoring SHA1 for SSL and Code Signing certificates. This policy will begin in 2017 and applies to Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and later operating systems.