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PhoneFactor Acquisition Enhances Security of Microsoft Applications with Multi Factor Authentication
Microsoft has recently acquired PhoneFactor, which provides multi factor authentication by making use of user's phone. According to official sources at Microsoft, this development will bring new security mechanism for Microsoft products.
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Valgrind Support for MonoTouch
MonoTouch developers may now use Valgrind-based dynamic analysis tools on their iOS applications.
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Prezi's CTO on how to remain a lean startup after 4 years
Peter Halacsy, CTO of Prezi, spoke today at DevOps Days in Rome about the evolution of the company in the past 3 years as a lean startup. He discussed how embracing failure is the only way to grow and improve the business. These principles affected all aspects of the company, from its structure to people recruitment, responsibility, technology stack and mostly the culture.
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ReportPlus: Create and Access Dashboards, Reports from an iPad
Infragistics recently announced the availability of ReportPlus which enables you to create and access data, dashboards and reports from an iPad.
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Ruby on Rails vs. Node.js at LinkedIn
LinkedIn replaced their back-end mobile infrastructure built on Ruby on Rails with Node.js some time ago for performance and scalability reasons. A former LinkedIn team member reacted explaining what went wrong, in his opinion.
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ASP.NET to Add Support for LESS and CoffeeScript
The ASP.NET roadmap has been updated with their post-VS 2012 plans. The next set of features will focus on OData functionality and new/updated templates for MVC. Editor support for LESS and CoffeeScript is also in the works.
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Another Week, Another Java Security Issue Found
Polish security start-up Security Explorations has found another hole that allows hackers to bypass critical security measures, affecting Java SE 5, 6 and 7 - the last eight year's worth of Java releases.
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Oracle Honors London Java Community, Gosling at JavaOne
Today’s Java Community Keynote honored recipients of this year’s Duke’s Choice awards including the London Java Community for its innovative Adopt a JSR program. James Gosling showed of Liquid Robotics’ new robot, Wave Glider, that harnesses ocean wave energy. Other recipients included the Apache Hadoop project, AgroSense, Duchess, NATO, and Parleys.com. This year’s student winner is Ram Kashyap.
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ASP.NET Web API And Dependency Injection
ASP.NET Web API comes with a Dependency Resolver interface that lets you inject dependencies into your controller. However Mark Seemann suggests it is better to use the IHttpControllerActivator interface for this purpose, with a couple of examples.
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Virtualization, Open Source Cloud and PaaS Adoption Numbers
Zenoss has conducted a survey among IT operations specialists in order to evaluate virtualization, open source cloud and PaaS adoption. This article contains a digest of the survey results.
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Breeze: Develop Data Aware Web Applications with Caching, Change tracking and Validation
Breeze framework enables you to develop rich data centric web applications with intuitive user interfaces with features such as caching, change tracking, validation and batch saves. Breeze is written in HTML and JavaScript and is available as open source.
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Precog: Big Data Analytics as a Service
Precog has recently announced a Big Data warehousing and analysis service which takes care of the data capture, storage, transformation, analysis and visualization process and the infrastructure on which it runs, but leaving open various access points throughout the service via RESTful APIs enabling developers and data scientists to control the entire process.
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TypeScript Released to Improve JavaScript Development
Microsoft has released TypeScript to improve JavaScript application development. Their new language is a superset of JavaScript specification that brings the benefits of type checking and static code analysis while still generating native JavaScript that can be deployed anywhere.
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Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference Kicks off in London
O’Reilly’s Velocity conferences target web ops and performance professionals who like you to learn from their peers, exchange ideas with experts, and share best practices and lessons learned. The Velocity Europe 2012 event focuses on the core issues and opportunities that are specific to the European performance and ops community, as well as the most significant worldwide themes and players.
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Java ME Embedded and Java Embedded Suite: New Java Technologies for the Embedded Market
Oracle has released Java ME Embedded 3.2 and Java Embedded Suite 7.0, two new additions to Oracle's line of Java Embedded technologies. Java ME Embedded is a Java runtime optimized for microcontrollers and other resource-constrained devices. Java Embedded Suite is a Java application platform for embedded systems, which consists of Java SE Embedded, GlassFish Embedded, Jersey and Java DB.