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Expired SSL Certificates Break Azure and TFS
Windows Azure experienced a 9 hour outage on February 22 that affected all users who relied on the storage system, including those using Team Foundation Service. InfoQ examines the details that have emerged surrounding the root causes of the failure.
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Latest News from Microsoft and Amazon Regarding Android
Microsoft Azure now has an Android SDK including notification push to Android devices. Amazon makes available a Mobile Ads API that can be used to display adds from their network on any Android device in parallel with those from Google AdMob.
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PhoneGap 2.5 Enables Application Cache and InAppBrowser Geolocation
PhoneGap 2.5 has been released with support for application cache and InAppBrowser geolocation including several updates and bug fixes.
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Eclipse Orion 2.0 Now Runs Locally on Node.js
Eclipse Orion 2.0 has been recently released with support for Node.js, Projects, more and improved Shell commands, better JavaScript code assist and performance improvements.
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Anime version of Scrum overview diagram available from Scrum Primer website
The authors of the Scrum Primer, which includes a graphic explaining the Scrum process which is available for download and use under the creative commons license, have released an anime cartoon version of the diagram, also under a creative commons license.
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Entity Framework 6 Alpha 3 with Code First Stored Procedures and Connection Resiliency
Microsoft has released Entity Framework 6 Alpha 3 with support for code first stored procedures, connection resiliency, pull request from iceclow and UnaiZorrilla.
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Casablanca's C++ SDK Whitelisted for Open Source
Microsoft's C++ REST SDK, codenamed Casablanca, has been open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license. Casablanca provides developers with a multiplatform way to write C++11 code that interacts with REST services.
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Reactions to Yahoo!’s Decision to Forbid Employee Telecommuting
Yahoo!’s recent decision to call all employees to work from company’s offices has raised some questions especially throughout the telecommuting community. Is this a disguised move to lay off people? Is it a misunderstanding of how remoting is to be managed? Is this the right move for Yahoo!?
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Eclipse RAP 2.0 Released - Same Acronym, Different Name
On January 11th, Eclipse RAP 2.0 was released, after 6 years of development. InfoQ talked to the project lead about the release.
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How Swarming Helps Agile Teams to Deliver
Swarming is a technique that helps agile teams to deliver working software fast and frequently. What is swarming, what are the benefits of swarming, and when and how to apply it?
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Vaadin 7 Arrives with GWT as an Integrated Component
Vaadin has released version 7 of its Java-based web application framework. The Vaadin 7 platform is the framework's first major update since 2009.
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Concurrent Releases Lingual, a SQL DSL for Hadoop
Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise Big Data application platform company, today announced Lingual, an open source project enabling fast and simple Big Data application development on Apache Hadoop using SQL.
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Applying Validation for Queryable API in ASP.NET Web API OData
In ASP.NET Web API OData, it is important to enable validation in Queryable API if you make use of queries outside the organization and this article examines the various scenarios where you can enable validation.
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Greenplum Pivotal HD Combines the Strengths of SQL and Hadoop
EMC Greenplum has announced Pivotal HD, a new Hadoop distribution including a fully compliant SQL MPP database running on HDFS and being “hundreds of times faster than Hive”.
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Using the Domain Driven Design Bounded Context Concept to Shrink a Large Domain Model
Bounded Context concept from Domain Driven Design (DDD) can be used to divide a large model into smaller models using the Database Context (DbContext class) in Entity Framework (EF). Bounded Context creates smaller, more cohesive models with boundaries between models.