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Cassandra Gets Atomic Batches, Virtual Nodes, CQL Improvements
Cassandra 1.2 was recently released with several improvements such as virtual nodes, atomic batch support, better performance and more.
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Opscode Chef Integration Tests Now On OpenStack With Test Kitchen 0.7.0
Opscode has announced the availability of Test Kitchen 0.7.0 with support for using on-demand OpenStack instances to test Chef cookbooks. Test Kitchen is a tool, which helps Opscode Chef cookbook developers to validate their cookbooks before applying them to their live infrastructure.
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Things you can Check when Adopting Agile
An agile checklist is a tool which can help you to assess your agile implementation in an organization, and assist when adopting agile. Some examples of lists with things that you can check when adopting agile.
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NetAdvantage Reporting with Hierarchical Data and Enhanced Report Engine
Infragistics NetAdvantage Reporting 2012 volume 2 includes support for Hierarchical Data and Visual Studio 2012. It also ships with an Enhanced Report Engine and Pagebreak Control.
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Learn some RegEx for the New Year
If you are looking for something to learn for the new year, its hard to go wrong with regular expressions. With dialects available on every major platform, it’s a skill that will continue to pay dividends throughout your career. One way to get started is Firas Dib’s Regular Expressions 101.
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Introducing the F# Software Foundation
An independent group of developers and companies have joined forces to create the F# Software Foundation. This organization’s goal is to “is to promote, protect, and advance the F# programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of F# programmers.”
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WiX v3.7 - MSBuild, Self Update and Reference Counting
The recently released WiX 3.7 includes support for MSBuild, self update and reference counting
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Sync Block Edit Simplifies Code Editing
Sync Block Edit is a Visual Studio extension which simplifies code editing in multiple files.
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Building Type Providers for F#
Over the last year lots of Type Providers for F# were released for a variety of data sources including AppSettings, Excel, XAML, and the statistical programming language R. And with many of these being offered as open source projects, learning how to create your own has become much easier.
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Power Tools Update 1 for TFS 2012 with Backup and Restore Tool
Microsoft recently released Power Tools Update 1 for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 with Backup and Restore Tool including set of additional enhancements.
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Windows Azure Mobile Services with Push Notifications Support
Windows Azure Mobile Services team announced support for push notifications via APNS and improvements to iOS Objective C SDK.
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Solving Difficult System Problems with a DevOps Culture
Michael Stanke, director of software delivery at Puppet Labs, has written on SysAdvent about how DevOps is the development of a culture that can successfully overcome complex and difficult system thinking problems. Michael shares his experience of transitioning into a new position full of opportunities to make technical and process oriented contributions.
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HTML5 and Canvas 2D Are Feature Complete
HTML5 and Canvas 2D have reached Candidate Recommendation status, High Resolution Time and Navigation Timing are Recommendation, while HTML 5.1 and Canvas 2D Context Level 2 are Working Drafts.
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Version 5 of Programmer's Text Editor jEdit Released with Support for Scala and Dart
jEdit version 5.0.0 was recently released. It has new editing modes for Scala and Dart, and improved Mac OS X support regarding the UI and keymappings. All keyboard shortcuts are now configurable and presets are offered for Emacs and IntelliJ IDEA. This is also the first version that supports localization (French, German, Russian, Czech and Japanese are offered).
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Tools for Building Advanced Media Applications
In the //Build/, Mike Downey demonstrated the key technologies that are employed by developers to create advanced media rich applications using Windows 8.