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DB2 Express Now Offers 16 GB of RAM
IBM has relaxed the memory restrictions on the free version of their flagship database. Version 10.5 of DB2 Express-C can now use up to 16 GB of RAM. The product already allowed for unlimited database sizes on disc but is limited to a single socket (2 cores).
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Building iOS/C# User Interfaces: Importing, Imperative, Drawing, or Drag and Drop
Xamarin.iOS now supports three development models for designing iOS user interfaces with C#: importing from XCode, drag-and-drop using Xamarin Studio, drawing in PaintCode, or purely imperative using raw C#.
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Remove Waste From Your Backlog with the Priority Game
The priority game is an exercise which Michael Franken did at the GOTO Amsterdam 2013 conference, to make large backlogs manageable. He showed how Scrum can help you to focus and remove waste by not making things that are probably never used by customers.
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Introducing DevOps to Traditional Enterprises
Niek Bartholomeus recently finishing composing a four post DevOps focused blog series about leading the implementation of configuration management and release management in a traditional enterprise. Niek covers the theory of DevOps, then an analysis of the problems with software delivery within a traditional enterprise, and finally the application of specific DevOps practices.
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.NET Memory Profiling in Visual Studio 2013
Visual Studio 2013 comes with a better memory profiler for .NET applications, but it is still far behind the other commercial offerings.
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RESTful Web Services Framework Jersey 2.0 Released, Implementing JAX-RS 2.0 Specification
Final version of the RESTful Web Services Framework Jersey 2.0 was recently released. New features includes a Client API, Hypermedia support, Filters and interceptors, and support for asynchronous Clients and Services. Jersey 2.0 is a reference implementation of the JAX-RS 2.0 API Specification, (JSR 339), released late May.
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Meet Nanoko: a Javascript SOA Platform and Build Process
Built by Ubidreams and Dynamis Technologies, Nanoko is a Javascript build process designed to provide modularity and reusability, complementing existing tools instead of reinventing them.
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S is for Security
Frank Breedijk, security officer at Schuberg Philis, talks about the friction points between security and DevOps and how to collaborate to avoid them. Examples include automating security tests and environments, reducing scope of security audits to relevant system components only or allowing security fixes to jump the queue of changes to production.
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Windows Phone 8 Beta Apps - Few Important Points
Windows Phone 8 apps need to be tested during the beta phase before being published on the store. Michael Crump answers few questions which developers should know during the development of beta apps.
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Why the Lean Start-up Changes Everything
Steve Blank makes the argument that mainstream adoption of the lean start-up is not only attainable, but would provide the basis for a newer innovation based economy.
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FunScript: Using the Power of F# for Writing Web Apps
FunScript is an F# compiler library enabling developers to write single-page web applications in F# and running them in the browser or on the server via Node.js.
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Multi-Factor Authentication For Windows Azure Hosted Apps
Microsoft recently announced preview of Multi-Factor Authentication in Windows Azure. This can be enabled for Windows Azure Management portal, Microsoft Online Services such as Office 365, as well as custom applications.
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Multi-Touch Behaviors Package for Windows Phone and Silverlight Now Available on NuGet
Davide Zordan has recently released a new package on NuGet which enables developers to build Windows Phone 8 and Silverlight applications enabled with gesture behaviors.
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Portable Compression Libraries for .NET 4.5, Windows Store and Windows Phone
Microsoft has released a beta of a new portable library called Bcl.Compression that adds support for zip archives and compress streams (i.e. deflate and gzip) for the Portable Http Client. Unfortunately it requires a native library so Silverlight and Windows Phone 7.x developers are out of luck.
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Eclipse goes to GitHub
With the migration of Eclipse repositories to Git, the Eclipse Foundation is looking to make it easier for people to contribute code via enabling a Contributor License Agreement and facilitating projects to be hosted on GitHub to take advantage of social features.