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IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 Lands with JavaFX 2.0 Support
JetBrains has begun shipping IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 which sees the IDE gaining full support for JavaFX 2.0, the latest incarnation of the Java client platform. Version 12.1 of popular IDE also includes new features for Gradle, Scala, Groovy and Play Framework users.
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Google Releases Mirror API for Glass
Google has released the Mirror API for writing Glassware applications and the final specification for Glass devices.
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Microsoft Makes Infrastructure Cloud Generally Available, Matches AWS Prices
Today, Microsoft took their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud product – called Windows Azure Infrastructure Services – out of preview and made it available to the general public. Microsoft is entering a crowded IaaS market but they’ve committed to matching cloud leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) on price while also promising enterprise-class SLAs and services.
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JSON Validation Roundup
Create any “flexible” or “extensible” file format and sooner or later a group of developers will start complaining about validation. For JSON, several options are starting to spring up.
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Windows Azure Adds Active Directory, New Backup Service, Monitoring and Log Improvements
Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows Azure Active Directory, new backup service with support for incremental backups including several monitoring and log improvements.
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Portable Class Library Support for Noda Time
Noda Time, the advanced date/time library for .NET, is now available for Windows 8, Windows Phone 7, and Windows Phone 8. This version also offers a NuGet package and a comprehensive user’s guide.
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Continuous Delivery Speeds Up Innovation
Thoughtworks recently published a whitepaper including a maturity model for continuous delivery (or CD) as a response to research indicating that most companies understand the importance of innovation, but are not able to deliver software quickly enough to meet the needs of business leaders.
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Sails 0.8.9: A Rails-Inspired Real-Time Node MVC Framework
Version 0.8.9 of Sails, a real-time MVC framework built atop node.js, was released on April 9th by Austin, TX-based Balderdash in an ongoing effort to bring a Rails-like development platform to modern web apps
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LLVM Authors Have Received One of the ACM Awards 2012
ACM has granted their 2012 awards for innovation in computing, including the Software System Award to LLVM creators.
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NoSQL Benchmark Compares Aerospike, Cassandra, Couchbase and MongoDB
A recent set of benchmarks compares Aerospike, Cassandra, Couchbase and MongoDB to see how they fare when it comes to insert throughput, maximum throughput, latency and behavior during a failover.
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CouchDB 1.3.0 Adds New Features and Algorithm Enhancements
Apache Software Foundation has released CouchDB 1.3.0 with support for Fix _session, Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) including additional features and algorithm enhancements.
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Google's Go Readies 1.1 Release
Version 1.1 of Google's Go is in beta, and brings significant reported performance increases, new toolset & language features. It maintains backwards compatibility with Go 1.0 and in most cases a recompile is the only thing needed to take advantage of this release.
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BDD Tool Cucumber with a Larger Team and Numerous Bugs Fixed
The project for Cucumber, a Behaviour Driven Development, BDD, tool, has recently increased the team and intensive work last months has brought open bugs down substantially, Aslak Hellesøy revealed when talking about the Cucumber ecosystem during a Cucumber conference day last week.
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Product Backlogs with Process Maps or Story Maps
When you have a large backlog with many user stories, structuring a product backlog with story maps or process maps can help to keep an overview and see the bigger picture.
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Dart2js Outperforms Hand-Written JavaScript in DeltaBlue Benchmark
Google released a new version of the Dart2js compiler, whose generated JavaScript code now outperforms hand-written JavaScript in the DeltaBlue benchmark, a commonly used benchmark for benchmarking object-oriented languages.