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Entity Framework Power Tools Beta 3 Released
Microsoft has recently released Entity Framework Power Tools Beta 3 with several bug fixes and features such as Reverse Engineer Code First.
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Jelastic Adds PHP to Their Platform for Service Hosting Providers
Besides Java, Jelastic has added PHP to their platform for service hosting providers. This article contains an interview with Dmitry Sotnikov, COO at Jelastic, with more inside information about their PaaS solution.
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What’s Up with CU-RTC-Web?
Microsoft CU-RTC-Web is an alternative approach to WebRTC meant to show some of WebRTC’s weaknesses and to push it forward.
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Windows Azure Store Expanded to More Countries
Windows Azure Store has been refreshed with new add-ons and expanded the availability the availability to 11 countries.
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jQuery's Github-Driven Plugin Repository Launched
The jQuery Foundation launched its new plugin repository on January 16th in an attempt to bolster and consolidate third-party development against the jQuery core library.
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LINQ Insight 2.0 Released with RavenDB
LINQ Insight 2.0 has been released with support for RavenDB, List<T>, array parameters and includes several performance improvements.
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Twitter Open Sources Flight, an Event-based Component Framework
Twitter has open sourced Flight, the JavaScript framework used internally in production to provide functionality for their website.
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Announcing QCon New York 2013 (June 12-14); Registration Open; Tracks Announced
Registration is now open for QCon New York 2013 (Jun 12-14). Some of this year's 15 tracks include: Polyglot Architectures, Hot Technologies in Financial Services, Java Innovations, Lean Startup Applied, Continuous Delivery, Applied Data Science, the JavaScript Ecosystem, HTML5, Mobile Development, and more. Register before Feb 15th and save $650.
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Phoenix: Running SQL Queries on Apache HBase [Updated]
Salesforce.com has open sourced Phoenix, a Java layer enabling developers to run SQL queries on Apache HBase. Update: An interview on Phoenix with James Taylor, Lead Developer at Salesforce.com, has been appended.
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Meteor 0.5.3 Released; Improved Performance and Real-Time Reactive Updating
The Meteor Development Group released version 0.5.3 of their full-stack framework on January 7th, balancing a short-list of new features with increased back-end stability.
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Visual Studio Gets Git
Git, the popular open source distributed version control system is now natively supported by Visual Studio 2012 and the Team Foundation Service. Microsoft's new plug in provides native support and provides an alternative to the centralized source control model.
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Daniel Jebaraj on Orubase
We spoke with Daniel Jebaraj about Orubase, Syncfusion’s framework for building line-of-business mobile applications.
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Oracle Will Stop Providing Security Updates for Java 6 Next Month
The last publicly available release of Java 6 is to be released on February 19th 2013. After that date all new security updates, patches, and fixes for both the runtime and SDK of Java SE 6 will only be available through My Oracle Support, and will therefore only be available to users with a commercial license with Oracle.
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How to Measure and Analyze Happiness
Companies have reported that focusing on things that make their employees happy can give benefits. But how can you measure and analyze employee happiness? Some insights in the why of happiness, and the results and lessons learned from those who used it.
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Oracle's Head of Security Promises to Fix Issues and Improve Communication
Following a spate of high-profile security issues, Oracle's head of Java Security, Milton Smith, is promising that the vendor will fix issues with the platform, and improve its communication to community members.