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Oracle Reinstates Free Time Zone Updates for Java 7
The internet has been buzzing this week with the news that Oracle has ceased to provide free time zone updates outside of the standard JDK release cycle. However, at the end of yesterday the firm appeared to have a change of heart.
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CLR Memory Diagnostics Enables you to Automate Inspection Tasks
The recently relesed Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime or CLR Memory Diagnostics (ClrMD) component enables you to automate inspection tasks and access debugging information using set of advanced APIs.
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Windows Azure Service Bus Gets Better Interoperability With AMQP
Microsoft recently announced general availability of AMQP support for Windows Azure Service Bus. The feature has been in preview for about six months now and allows interoperability between applications built on various technologies and different operating systems.
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Cloud Foundry Announces New Version, Deprecates Old
Cloud Foundry has announced the deprecation of its current service and planned launch of Cloud Foundry V2. The new service will become a paid service along with a new architecture and new features including a web console, team development and buildpacks for customizing languages and runtime environments. There will also be support for custom domains and a services marketplace.
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SQLite WinRT Wrapper with Lightweight APIs
SQLite WinRT Wrapper has been released on CodePlex which provides lightweight APIs for the development of Windows Phone 8 applications. It includes functions for opening a database, execution and creation of SQL statement in addition to binding parameters and iteration over statement results.
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Agile Singapore Conference Announced
The first Agile Singapore conference will be held on November 7-8 2013. The conference is community organized with Jim McCarthy and David Hussman as the opening and closing keynote speakers.
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Google Provides a Mobile Backend Starter for Android Apps
Google is offering back-end functionality for Android applications including data storage, cloud messaging, and authentication.
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Google Extends Their Services with Cloud SQL
Google is making MySQL available in the cloud as a fully managed service, including a JSON API for programmatic management.
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Bling and the future of IDEs
At EclipseCon 2013, L33t Labs revealed a port of SWT running on OpenGL, and used it to demonstrate an Eclipse instance with graphical effects animated by the OpenGL hardware. They have recently released a video of the effects shown, but it raises an important question on the UX of future IDEs.
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Build Simplicity into a System with Simple Event-Driven Components
Use events for interactions between small business components to bring simplicity to a system’s architecture, Russ Miles suggests in a recent presentation about simple event-driven components, as a follow-up on his talk a month earlier where he laid the architectural ground for his ideas about simplicity.
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JDK 8 (Almost) Feature Complete
JDK 8 has reached Milestone 7 in JDK 8 build b91. M7 is the Feature Complete milestone, where all features and unit tests have been implemented and integrated. Unfortunately, not all features were delivered on time. Three JEPs (JDK Enhancement Proposal) are still in progress, althought they are estimated to be completed for JDK build b93.
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Windows 8.1 for Business Users
Windows 8.1 represents Microsoft's attempt to smooth the rough edges of user's transition to their vision of a touch-based future on the desktop. Windows 8 has a reputation of being consumer-focused, and 8.1 is intended in part to provide more features for business users.
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Finding Ways to Improve Business – IT Collaboration
Collaboration between business and IT can be a problem in enterprises. People are finding ways to better support the business needs and increase the business value of IT, using business IT fusion, DevOps or sociocracy.
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WSO2 API Manager 1.4.0 Introduces Multi-Tenancy
The latest WSO2 API Manager adds native multi-tenancy, automatic generation of API documentation, and SAML-based SSO, running both on servers or in the cloud.
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Andi Gutmans on PHP, Cloud Computing and Security
InfoQ recently spoke to Zend CEO Andi Gutmans to know about the future of cloud computing, role of PHP in mobile apps and security related aspects.