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Amazon Makes Compelling Case for Hosting and Processing Your Big Data
The AWS team has announced a limited preview of Amazon Redshift, a cloud-hosted data warehouse whose cost and capabilities are poised to disrupt the industry. In addition, AWS revealed two new massive compute instance types, and a data integration tool called Data Pipeline.
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Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2013 with Persistence Framework and iOS6 Support
Telerik has announced the roadmap for ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2013 release which is slated to ship with support for Persistence Framework, iOS6 and SASS including two new controls and enhancements for the existing controls.
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Resources for Android App Development
In this article, Anand examines the Android design guidelines which provides a comprehensive coverage of various aspects associated with the application development including the details of online training and relevant books available for Android app development.
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XP Days Benelux 2012, second day sessions
The 10th anniversary edition of the XP Days Benelux 2012 conference continues on the second day. An impression of the sessions about agile adoption, self organizing and managing technical debt.
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How Competencies and Mental Shifts Help Agile Adoption
Two stories describing how professionals discovered ways to move from “using a waterfall process” to “becoming agile”, and dealt with their concerns along the way.
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Facebook Now Uses HHVM/JIT both in Development and Production
Facebook has announced using HHVM, a HipHop VM with JIT compilation, in production, a solution that has unified their development and deployment environments, providing significant performance gains for developers.
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XP Days Benelux 2012, first day sessions on agile
The 10th anniversary edition of the XP Days Benelux 2012 conference provides good opportunity for exchanging ideas and sharing experiences on agile. An impression of some of the sessions from day 1.
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LLVM Proposes Adding Modules to C
At the November LLVM developers meeting, Doug Gregor of Apple gave a presentation on adding modules to C. This provides a transitional approach to providing modules as a means to both speed up compilation time and to improve the amount of semantic information provided by libraries, which can be used to improve both IDEs and debugging.
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HTTP 2.0 First Draft Published
The editors of the HTTP specification have published an initial draft of v2 which is a straight copy of SPDY and will be used as a base for diffs going forward. Many changes are expected to be done like adding new features, removing existing ones, changing the bytes on the wire, etc. A draft ready for test implementations is expected to be published early next year.
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Nashorn Proposed as Replacement JavaScript Engine for OpenJDK
Oracle's multi-language lead Jim Laskey has proposed a new JVM-based JavaScript implementation, Nashorn, as an OpenJDK project.
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Cloud Foundry Core: Portability Across Cloud Foundry Vendors
Cloud Foundry Core is a web application that verifies public instances (Cloud Foundry Endpoints) against a common set of runtimes and services. This helps portability across companies that provide Cloud Foundry instances. At the same time a new version Micro Cloud Foundry is released with support for Java 7.0, JRuby, Play 2.0 framework and more.
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SharePoint Emulators Simplifies Unit Testing
Visual Studio 2012 SharePoint Emulators recently released by Microsoft simplifies the unit testing of SharePoint code. It provides necessary libraries for implementing Microsoft Fakes based shims.
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Update 1 Formally Released for Visual Studio 2012
The first of many scheduled updates to Visual Studio 2012 has been released as Microsoft moves away from massive service packs to an up-tempo release schedule. Formal Windows XP client support is included, among many other changes that will affect most VS2012 users.
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Google Open Sources Testacular, a JavaScript Test Runner
Google has open sourced Testacular, a JavaScript test runner based on Node.js. The tool can be used to test all major web browsers, can be integrated with CI tools, and it works with any code editor.
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Change and Permanence
How do we embrace agile software development, while protecting business transactions from harm, and dispute? The legal profession is risk adverse, and seeks permanence over change. But complex software development require adaptation to change. This article summarizes one angle on this debate.