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SOLID Database Design With PostgreSQL
Chris Travers recently published a series of articles titled “Building SOLID Databases”. He explains several ideas on how to apply some of the common OOP principles such as Single Responsibility Principle, Interface Segregation, Dependency Inversion to improve data models and database code.
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Oracle Updates NetBeans for HTML5
With the latest 7.3 release of NetBeans, Oracle has updated the IDE so developers can more easily build HTML5-based user interfaces for mobile and web applications, with code completion capabilities for HTML, JavaScript, and CSS3, and a new Nashorn-powered JavaScript editor. Netbeans also gains a new stand-alone JPQL editor that allows developers to test JPQL queries directly from the IDE.
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Brent Ozar on Improving Productivity with SQL Server
Brent Ozar, renowned SQL Server consultant recently shared few techniques for improving productivity with SQL Server.
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Adopt a JSR Follow-up Online Meeting Tomorrow
Following a first online call on January 18th, involving over 40 JUG leaders/members from around the world, the people behind the 'Adopt a JSR' program are hosting a follow up online meeting on Wednesday February 27th.
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Servant: Web Based Management Tool for Internet Information Services
Servant enables you to manage various settings of Internet Information Services (IIS) directly from your browser.
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Competition between Real-time Hadoop Implementations Heats Up
Hortonworks’ new Stinger initiative joins Apache Drill and Cloudera Impala in competition for the best real-time Hadoop implementation.
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Latest News on webOS, Tizen, Bada and Firefox OS
LG buys webOS. Samsung kills Bada and strengthens Tizen. Firefox OS attracts more carriers and first devices seen at MWC 2013.
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"February Revolution" Aims to Focus Software Delivery on Business Outcomes
In February 2013 a group of authors, speakers, consultants and practitioners met to identify the common elements in their approaches to focusing software delivery on business outcomes. The group identified some underlying principles and practical steps that organisations and teams can take to help ensure the products they "build the right product" to maximize business value.
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Experience Based Principles for Succeeding at SOA
After many years of working in the SOA field, Jean-Jacques Dubray has written down what he believes are four principles for helping to achieve successful SOA.
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To Live and Code in Kinvey MBaaS
Second in a series of articles about the organizations back of the burgeoning category of Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), InfoQ takes a gander at Cambridge, Massachusetts company Kinvey, Inc. Kinvey’s third party data integrations, support for multiple platforms, notifications, versioned API’s and business logic features expedite the developer’s backend.
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Facebook Introduces Chef To Manage Its Web-Tier
Facebook rolled out Private Chef, Opscode's commercial infrastructure automation product, to manage its web-tier. To ensure that Chef meets Facebook's scalability requirements they helped design the latest version of Chef Server, which is a total re-write using Erlang.
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WCF Data Services 5.3.0 with Instance Annotations and request URL
Microsoft has released WCF Data Services 5.3.0 with support for instance annotations in JSON payloads, modifying request URL in the OnStartProcessingRequest method including few bug fixes.
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Visual Studio Round Up
Microsoft moves DevLabs to the Visual Studio Gallery. February brings the third CTP for VS2012's Update 2. And Axum is remembered.
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Modern.ie Helps Developers Test Code for Browsers
Microsoft has released modern.ie which enables you to test websites on various versions of IE with a series of tools including tips to build modern sites while supporting old versions of Internet Explorer.
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Microsoft’s Cloud Guidance Addresses SQL Server
Microsoft's guidance on how to deploy a SQL solution in Azure addresses many concerns such as service level agreements, maintenance, and scalability. Additionally, a framework is offered which helps developers make this decision based upon their solution's specific needs.