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Edge.js Combines Node.js with .NET
The Edge.js project combines Node.js with the .NET platform. Developers can use C# on Node.js or provide Node.js functionality to C# applications-- allowing them to use the best tool for each task. InfoQ had the opportunity to speak with author Tomasz Janczuk about the project and his future plans.
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Stanford Offers Free Introductory Course on iOS Programming
Stanford University is offering a free introductionary course "Coding Together: Developing Apps for iPhone and iPad (Winter 2013)" on iTunes U. All lectures can be downloaded as video podcasts along with slides in PDF format. The material is suitable for Objective-C and iOS programming beginners, though knowledge of object-oriented concepts and languages is required.
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Interview with Neil Bartlett about OSGi and the new Bndtools 2.0 release
Neil Bartlett, current maintainer of the popular Bndtools Eclipse plugin for OSGi has announced the release of Bndtools 2.0. InfoQ has interviewed Neil Bartlett to learn more about Bndtools and about OSGi in general.
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ZeroTurnaround has Announced the Availability of LiveRebel 2.6
ZeroTurnaround has announced the availability of LiveRebel 2.6, its software release automation tool. InfoQ has interviewed Krishnan Badrinarayanan Product Manager to learn more about LiveRebel and the latest release.
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Develop Utility, Productivity, Financial and Media Apps with RadControls for Windows 8
Telerik has recently released RadControls for Windows 8, which enables developers to build touch optimized applications for desktop and mobile devices.
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Should You Create User Stories for Technical Debt?
Agile teams sometimes struggle with the planning of pure technical tasks that have no direct value for the user of a system, but have to be done to deliver working software. Should you create user stories to handle such technical tasks and technical debt, or not?
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Camunda Forks Alfresco Activiti
Camunda, a Berlin-based software and consulting company specializing in BPM, has announced that they are forking Alfresco Activiti to launch a new product called camunda BPM. The new product replaces camunda fox, the firm's previous Activiti-based BPM offering.
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Quickstart for New Users of Opscode Chef
OpsCode is providing a new avenue for learning chef aimed at equipping new users with what they need to start building "Infrastructure as Code". The content leads users through a quickstart, common cases, screen casts, and troubleshooting.
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Xtend 2.4 Adds Active Annotations, Android Support and More
Xtend is a statically compiled programming language for the JVM but which has type inference to reduce boilerplate code. The new Xtend 2.4 release adds active annotations, which can be used to generate standard patterns and reduce coding errors, as well as Android support and collection literals. InfoQ caught up with Sven Efftinge to find out what else is new with the Xtend 2.4 release.
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Filepicker - Upload, Download, Connect and Synchronize Files from your App to the Users Cloud
Filepicker.io enables you to upload and store files from your own application via Facebook, Dropbox, Instagra, Flickr and etc including from your own computer.
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Canvas-Based Chart.js Version 0.1 Released
Chart.js, a canvas-driven Javascript charting library, was released under the MIT open source license by Nick Downie on March 17th as an alternative to SVG-based charting libraries.
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Java 8 Starting to Find Its Way into .Net/Mono
In last week’s development snapshot, IKVM added experimental support for static methods in interfaces and default interfaces methods. These Java 8 features are primarily to support the internal workings of Java libraries, they won’t be readily usable from other .NET languages.
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GitSync for Plastic SCM with Native Git Protocols and Visual Studio 2012 Support
GitSync for Plastic SCM has been released with support for native Git network protocols and Visual Studio 2012 support.
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PuppetLabs and Opscode Reveal How They Built Their Open Source Communities
Being nice to people and being explicit and transparent about how things are done are key ingredients for growing communities say both, Luke Kanies, CEO and founder of PuppetLabs, and Adam Jacob, co-founder of Opscode and creator of Chef. They both claim that you need to be genuine in the way you interact with your communities.
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Terracotta's BigMemory 4.0 and In-Genius Products Offer Real-time Insights From Big Data Sources
Terracotta’s BigMemory 4.0 and In-Genius products offer real-time analytics and insights from Big Data sources and integration with Hadoop. Terracotta recently announced the release of the new version of in-memory data platform BigMemory and In-Genius, an in-memory intelligence platform for Big Data.