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Stored Procedures and Entity Framework
Much has been written on the topic of ORMs and its failings. Most of the objections fall into two categories: Separation of Concerns and Object Oriented Design. For the Entity Framework we have good news for one these.
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Azul Offers Free Zing JVM to Open Source Community Projects
Azul Systems have announced that they are making their pauseless Zing JVM freely available to Open Source developers and projects for use in development and testing.
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IIS 8 And Web Deploy 3.0 - A Closer Look
IIS 8 gets released along with Windows Server 2012. This comes with several interesting features such as NUMA-support, WebSockets, security improvements and better web deployment tools.
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Interview on Rust, a Systems Programming Language Developed by Mozilla
Rust is a systems programming language developed by Mozilla and targeted at high performance applications. This post contains an interview with Graydon Hoare, Rust’s creator.
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Developers and ASP.NET: Whats Next?
Visual Studio provides ASP.NET developers with numerous development options. At aspConf 2012, Scott Hanselman demonstrates some of the upcoming features that will promote easier development and describes his vision for One ASP.NET.
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Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 are ready to go!
In addition to Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 being released to manufacturing, Microsoft has completed its tool suit - Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5.
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Build ASP.NET Sites Easily with Kentico CMS 7
Kentico CMS 7 introduces an advanced workflow option which enables developers to create a workflow using a new visual designer. Developers will also be able to specify email templates for each type of notification email and define excluded roles in the workflow security.
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Government Guidelines for Agile Adoption
Recently both the US and UK government accounting oversight bodies issued reports and guidelines on the use of Agile practices for government funded development projects. Both the United States GAO and the United Kingdom NAO recommend the use of Agile as being the best way for building software products in government departments, and they provide guidance for agile adoption and governance.
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Introducing the New Features of F# 3.0
The upcoming release of .NET Framework 4.5 brings in several new features for F# 3.0 (F Sharp) language such as a new type attribute, triple-quoted string literals, auto-properties, and unused variable warnings in addition to the core features such as type providers and LINQ queries.
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Netflix Unleashes Chaos Monkey as its Latest Open Source Tool
Netflix has just open-sourced its much talked about “Chaos Monkey” software which intentionally takes servers offline as a way to test the resiliency of a cloud environment. This is another in a long line of internally developed tools that Netflix has chosen to freely share with the technical community.
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Terracotta BigMemory 3.7: Multi-Terabyte Support, Improved Search, Enhanced Security
Terracotta Inc has released BigMemory 3.7, an off-heap store snap-in for Enterprise Ehcache. BigMemory speeds up applications by keeping data in memory, without the long garbage collection pauses that is common for large JVM heap sizes. New in this version is support for multi-terabyte servers, lower search indexing overhead, and enhanced security.
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Fast Hashes Kill Cryptographic Security
Troy Hunt demonstrates how the password hashes provided by SqlMembershipProvider are vulnerable to brute force attacks and offers some remedies.
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Reactions to Mark Reinhold's Recent Announcement of Project Jigsaw's Delay
Java developers across the ecosystem have been swift to react to Mark Reinhold's announcement last week that project Jigsaw, Oracle's planned modularity framework for Java, will now be delayed until Java 9.
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Increasing Visual Studio 2012 UI Responsiveness
Microsoft continues to build performance improvements into Visual Studio 2012. We take a look at some improvements to the Toolbox that could help all users, but especially those with large solutions.
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University of Groningen Offers Repertory Grid Tool for Capturing Architecture Decisions
Dan Tofan from the University of Groningen provides the open source software tool RGT (Repertory Grid Tool) to software architects for capturing and evaluating their architecture decisions. Using the tool architects can better document their decisions and reflect about them.