InfoQ Homepage News
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jClarity Offers new Tools that Simplify Java Performance Tuning
In a world crowded with in-process and distributed Java profilers, jClarity is a new company with a niche in enterprise and the cloud, offering several tools designed with the goal of simplicity.
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Community-Driven Research: Major Software Development Trends for 2013
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a 14th question about: "Major Software Development Trends for 2013". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Windows Azure Storage New Pricing Structure Revealed
Microsoft recently revealed new pricing structure for Windows Azure Storage along with several improvements.
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Should we stop using Story Points and Velocity ?
Agilists in the community are debating the use of Story Points and Velocity, making people question the use of these in estimation and measurement of overall progress. The common underlying reason is these metrics are often prone to abuse and are seldom used effectively.
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Silverlight.net Unplugged
Microsoft closed the official Silverlight resource site and redirected it to the MSDN developer center spreading rumours about the end of Silverlight.
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Orubase Version 1 with Project Wizard, SQLite and Encryption Support
Syncfusion has announced the availability of Orubase Version 1 which ships with Project Wizard, SQLite and Encryption Support.
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Architecture, Strategy at Center of First AWS Conference
Last week, 6,000 attendees from around the globe were in Las Vegas, NV for the first-ever Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent conference. InfoQ was there to interview thought leaders and identify the key messages of the conference.
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Telerik Announces Coded UI Test Support for WPF
Telerik RadControls for WPF Q3 2012 enables developers to test user interfaces as it ships with Level 1 coded UI test support.
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Community-Driven Research: Top Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Toolsets
InfoQ's research initiative continues with an 13th question: "Top Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Toolsets". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Research into Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism in C#
Some big names from Microsoft, Microsoft Research and the University of Washington have been working on a new variant of C# that introduces the concept of readable and immutable references at the language level. To this effect each reference has one of four permission qualifiers that modify variables and parameters: writable, readable, immutable, and isolated.
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JetBrains Releases IntelliJ IDEA 12
JetBrains has announced IntelliJ IDEA 12 having a better compiler, support for Java 8, an Android UI Designer, a new look, better Spring and Play 2.0 support, and a large number of enhancements across supported languages and frameworks.
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Should Developers Start Learning C++?
With the introduction of C++ 11 and C++ CX there has been a lot of renewed interest in the language. And a lot of developers, especially Windows developers, are wondering if they should set aside C# and Java in favor of it. John Sonmez argues no.
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Changing people’s behavior by changing the environment
A recent article by Bob Marshall in Business Technology takes a look at how to change people’s behavior in organizations, by addressing the environment in which they do their work.
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Google Play Services 2.0 Adds Maps and Photo Sphere API
Google has released version 2.0 of their Play Services for Android applications. The new additions represent the Maps and Photo Sphere APIs, and are available for all applications running on Android 2.2+.
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Math.NET Numerics with F#, Intel MKL and Vector Slicing Support
Math.NET recently released numerics library with improved F# including support for Windows Phone 8 and vector slicing.