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Lienzo 1.0: A Scene Graph API In Java For The HTML5 Canvas
Lienzo 1.0 is a new GWT library offering an advanced API over the HTML5 Canvas. AS well as the low level operations already offered by Canvas in GWT, Lienzo adds a rich set of GUI primitives such as shapes, zooming, animations, drag-and-drop, event handling and more
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Simba Technologies is bringing the power of SQL to Cassandra, Hadoop, BigQuery, and MongoDB
At its heart, SQL is a domain specific language designed to allow non-professional programmers to query databases and write ad hock reports. When a company moves from a relational database to a NoSQL offering the need for ad hock reporting doesn’t go away, it just becomes harder. Simba’s ODBC drivers shift the power back into the hands of the users.
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Windows Azure Notification Hubs with Common API
Microsoft recently added an enhancement to Windows Azure Management Portal by releasing Notification Hubs which enables you to broadcast push notifications to thousands of mobile devices using a common API.
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Hadoop + SQL Server + Excel = Big Data Analytics
Few months back, Microsoft announced HDInsight, Microsoft’s Hadoop distribution for managing, analysing and making sense out of large volumes of data. InfoQ connected with Val Fontama, Senior Product Marketing Manager for SQL Server, to know more about how the Enterprise Big Data @ Microsoft story is panning out.
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How do Product Owners and Teams Collaborate?
Henrik Kniberg has developed “a 1 day product ownership course compressed into a 15 minute animated presentation”. Based upon this video and some other on-line resources about the product owner role, collaboration between product owners and teams is examined.
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Updated: Ed Bott Crowns Java the New "Foistware" King
On top of repeated security breaches to the Java browser plug-in, the long-established practice of including unrelated browser add-ons with the Java runtime installer is giving end-users another reason to avoid the Java platform.
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List & Label 18 with Touch, Top-N-Reporting and In-memory Databases
List & Label 18 recently released by combit provides support for back side printing, NuGet, cross page export including integration with Amazon web services and Visual Studio 2012.
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Vert.x Joining Eclipse Foundation
Project founder Tim Fox's choice, the Eclipse Foundation, will be the future home of Vert.x after VMware confirmed that they had no objections to the plan.
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Innovation Games Celebrates Ten Years with Summit in Santa Clara
Innovation Games celebrates their 10 year anniversary with a Summit in Santa Clara California. The Summit features Alexander Osterwalder as the keynote speaker.
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A Look at LiveBindings for C++ and Delphi
Binding expressions are not a new concept, XAML and Flex developers by them. But outside of C++/CX, which is only used for WinRT programming, it isn’t something that normally seen in native programming languages. Designed for both VCL and FireMonkey, LiveBindings are the exception to the rule.
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RavenDB Founder On .NET, ACID with NoSQL, Upcoming Features
RavenDB 2.0 was recently released with several new features. In an InfoQ exclusive interview, Oren Eini (Ayende Rahien), founder and project lead of RavenDB, shares the rationale behind various decisions in the project, as well as what’s coming up.
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The High Cost of Interruptions
Chris Parnin, publishing under the name “ninlabs research”, has released a study of 10,000 programming sessions recorded from 86 programmers using Eclipse and Visual Studio. His research has found that “a programmer is likely to get just one uninterrupted 2-hour session in a day” and that a programmer can take 10 to 15 minutes to resume work after an interruption.
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Crypto Obfuscator .Net v2013 with Portable Class Library and WinRT
Crypto Obfuscator .Net v2013 includes several new performance enhancements with support for Windows 8 and Automatic Exception Reporting.
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A New Streaming API for Node.js
Node.js, the server-side JavaScript platform built on top of Google’s V8 engine, has included a new Streaming API in its unstable 0.9.4 release. Nicknamed "streams2", it is scheduled to be included in the 0.10 stable release.
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Yeoman: Modern Workflows for Modern Webapps
Front-end developers should take a note of the release of Yeoman, a front-end development workflow.