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New Developer Tools for SQL Server, SharePoint, and Office
Microsoft updated several tools for developers targeting SQL Server, SharePoint, and Office. The Business Intelligence tools support analysis, integration, and reporting for SQL Server. The Office/SharePoint tools suite bring support for the 2013 versions of each and .NET Framework 4.5.
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Cloud Optimization Takes Center Stage with Free Microsoft, AWS Services
While a cottage industry has grown around providing services to optimize cloud usage and costs, large cloud providers themselves are beginning to promote their own optimization offerings. Microsoft recently purchased a cloud performance management company and made its product free to customers. Competitor AWS is aggressively promoting their own “Trusted Advisor” program with a free trial period.
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jQuery Mobile 1.3.0 Released
The jQuery Foundation released version 1.3.0 of its JavaScript and HTML5/CSS framework jQuery Mobile. The update focusses on responsive web design and introduces new widgets for mobile applications.
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Jelastic 1.9 with FTP, NGINX caching, Apache TomEE and MariaDB 10
Jelastic has announced the availability of version 1.9 with support for FTP/FTPS, NGINX caching, Apache TomEE and MariaDB 10.
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QCon New York 2013: 50/100 speakers confirmed; Talks from NASA, Twitter, LinkedIn, Netflix
Over 50 speakers have been confirmed for the second annual QCon New York 2013. QCon New York will take place at the New York Marriott just outside of Manhattan (at the Brooklyn Bridge) on June 10-14, 2013. Registration is open and new speakers and sessions are being posted to the conference site every week.You can get in early by reserving your seat now saving up to $500 by Mar 15th.
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Culture Game Extract #6 Now Available from InfoQ
Dan Mezick has written The Culture Game – a how-to book describing 16 learning patterns derived from Agile. InfoQ is publishing a series of extracts from the book. The last extract discusses the concepts of of personal mastery and belief change.
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Grunt 0.4.0 Released: An Emphasis On Modularity
The Grunt team updated their Javascript task runner to version 0.4.0 on February 18th in their ongoing effort to decouple the library into more modular parts.
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Google and MPEG LA End All Disputes on VP8
Google has obtained a license for any algorithm that may be essential to VP8 and MPEG LA has a patent for it. Google has the option to sublicense VP8 royalty-free to third party implementers, opening the way for wide adoption of the VP8 codec.
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Stimulsoft Released Report Designer For WinRT
Stimulsoft has released a new report designer for WinRT that enables you to create and edit reports on any device running Windows 8.
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Vagrant Support for Amazon AWS and Rackspace
HashiCorp's latest addition to support Amazon AWS and Rackspace as providers for Vagrant enables new usage scenarios: for the first time it will be possible to spin up Virtual Machines in the cloud instead of the developer's desktop.
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Erlang/OTP R16B Brings Improved Parallelism
The newley released Erlang/OTP R16B brings several performance enhancements among its new features. Code modules can now be loaded in a non-blocking manner, networking code for ports has been improved, and VM processes have been parallelized.
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How can Agile make you Faster?
Delivering faster is one of the reasons that enterprises mention why want to use agile for software development. How can agile be used to become faster?
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Red Gate Announces Simply Web Dev - Curated Guide for ASP.NET MVC
Red Gate Software based in UK has launched a new portal that enables students and developers to learn ASP.NET MVC with the help of wide range of resources.
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Will Java 8 Solve PermGen OutOfMemoryError?
As part of Oracle's ongoing project to merge the HotSpot and JRockit codebases, Oracle has announced that they will remove PermGen from the Java 8 version of the HotSpot JVM. The effects of the removal of PermGen can now be checked with Java 8 Early Access builds, it is time to find out if all PermGen problems have been resolved.
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Final Preview of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Released
The anticipated final preview of VS2012/TFS2012 Update 2 has been released. It brings a few more updates including the highlighting of the new LightSwitch HTML client.