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Amazon Expands Android App Distribution to 200 Countries
Amazon recently expanded its Android App distribution network to 200 countries including the launch of Amazon Coins, which can be used to purchase apps.
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Sauce Labs Appium Now Can Test Android and Firefox OS Apps
Sauce Labs has extended Appium to support automated testing for Android and Firefox OS applications. Support for iOS was introduced earlier this year.
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Visual Studio 2012.3 Go Live and First Words on V.Next
Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 has reached go-live status, bringing with it a host of important bug fixes. But the big news is confirmation of Microsoft's shift to focus on V.Next, the successor to 2012.
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Oracle to Change the Release Numbering for Java SE
"To avoid the confusion caused by renumbering releases", Oracle has announced that it is adopting a new numbering scheme for JDK 5.0, JDK 6 and JDK 7. "The next Limited Update for JDK 7 will be numbered 7u40, and the next 3 CPUs after that will be numbered 7u45, 7u51, and 7u55.”
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CloudMunch Launches a Full-Stack DevOps Platform
CloudMunch launched its full-stack DevOps platform - a dashboard of pre-integrated tools for version control, build management, validation, automated testing, deployment and cloud connectors. The company claims its platform significantly simplifies deployment of applications and infrastructure.
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Dart-Compiled Dart Compiler Compiles Dart Code in Browser
Google has relaunched try.dartlang.org, the online playground that allows users try out Dart without having to download and install the Dart SDK. Unlike its predecessor, the new version compiles Dart code to JavaScript in the browser and, as a result, also works offline. It also supports dart:html, Dart's library for HTML DOM manipulation.
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WebMatrix 3 Adds Windows Azure Integration, Remote Editing, Git and TFS Source Control Support
Microsoft WebMatrix 3 provides an ability for the developers to create and manage Windows Azure based websites including support for remote editing, Git and TFS source control.
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IBM and Microsoft push Opscode Chef
IBM and Opscode are working together to help IBM customers leverage Chef. Additionally Microsoft and Opscode have joined forces to help automate Microsoft's cloud service Azure.
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Latest Dart VM Beats JVM in DeltaBlue Benchmark
Shortly after Dart2js outperformed hand-written JavaScript, the latest Dart VM now beats JVM 7 64-bit Server, and other versions, in the DeltaBlue benchmark.
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Making Immutable Object Graphs Easier in C#
Creating a simple immutable class in C# is easy, but eventually you’ll want to create deep graphs that, for efficiencies sake, should be created via a builder. Or perhaps you want to make non-destructive updates by creating methods. Building out all these builders and methods can be quite tedious and thus error prone. Andrew L Arnott offers a solution that relies on T4 based code generators.
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10gen Introduces Incremental Backup Service For MongoDB
10gen recently announced limited release of their MongoDB Backup Service providing incremental backups and point-in-time recovery.
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AIDE 2.0 Introduces Support for Native C/C++ Apps
AIDE 2.0 adds support for C/C++, a new Design View, better UI and improved Git integration. AIDE is an Android IDE running on Android.
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Quickly Create Mono Bindings with Objective Sharpie
Objective Sharpie is the child of Aaron Bockover. This tool creates C# bindings suitable for use in Mono for Objective C SDKs. Objective Sharpie works by using Clang to parse Objective C header files. Since the process is automated, and has full access to the header, binding errors should be non-existent for most libraries.
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Architectural Changes in JSON.NET 5
Newtonsoft’s JSON.NET has received a pair of architectural updates to make it easier to use in projects that involve third party libraries. The two features are known as DefaultSettings and Extension Data.
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Manage Cloud Enabled Jelastic Hosting Using NetBeans IDE
Jelastic, Java and PHP based cloud hosting platform has released a new plugin that enables developers to manage their web applications from within the NetBeans IDE.