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OpenXava 4.5 Supports JPA Inheritance Mapping and Automated Business Logic
The latest version of OpenXava, a Java framework for rapid development of enterprise applications, supports all strategies of JPA inheritance mapping and the Automated Business Logic (ABL) library. OpenXava version 4.5 was released last month.
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Google Has Open Sourced Octane, a New JavaScript Benchmark Suite
Google has open sourced Octane, a JavaScript benchmarking suite consisting of 13 tests measuring browser performance.
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Community-Driven Research: Most Important and Mature Cross Platform Mobile Tools?
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a 4th question: "What are the Most Important and Mature Cross Platform Mobile Tools?". 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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Introducing SQL Server to MySQL Migration Tool from Oracle
Oracle recently announced a new migration tool, which provides an ability to quickly migrate data and applications from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL with less time and effort. The migration tool which has been integrated into MySQL Workbench, allows visual design, development and administration of MySQL databases with an advanced logging and security mechanism.
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On Lucene.Net: Becoming a Top-level Apache Project and Its Future
Lucene.Net, a C# port of the Lucene text search index library, has graduated the Incubator and has become a top-level Apache project. This article contains an interview with Prescott Nasser on the future of the project and Solr.Net.
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Blend for Visual Studio 2012: Updated UX Tool for Windows 8 Applications
Microsoft has announced the new Blend for Visual Studio 2012, a tool to design user interfaces for HTML and XAML applications in Windows Store 8. All versions of Visual Studio 2012 come with Blend, including Express.
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Entity Framework, Async – In Mono!
Entity Framework has been integrated into the Mono distribution as of 2.11.3 which means it can now be used even outside of the Windows platform. Mono also gets Async support on par with .NET 4.5.
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Improved User Experience with Semantic Zoom
Semantic Zoom is a new touch optimized feature in Windows 8 to present and navigate large sets of content within a single view and to display data controls that leverage deferred loading. With the help of semantic zoom, users can zoom in to inspect individual records or zoom out to see a group of data in a consumable, secondary visualization.
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Do we need an alternative to the product backlog?
A product backlog left unattended can become large and unmaintainable. The common approach of reviewing and updating the backlog regularly might be ineffective in the longer term, demanding alternatives to backlog grooming.
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PhoneGap 2.0 – One Framework, Many Platforms
Adobe Systems has recently released PhoneGap 2.0. PhoneGap provides the ability to build applications for iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Palm WebOS, Samsung Bada and Symbian. PhoneGap 2.0 includes support for Cordova WebView, which enables developers to wrap a web application as a native app by using the browser control available in all the mobile platforms.
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Programming In Non-English Languages - BabylScript
English dominates programming languages today, and projects such as BabylScript are efforts to try and make programming more accessible to non-English speakers. We speak to Ming-Yee Iu, the creator of BabylScript.
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Java 6 EOL Extended to February 2013
Oracle has announced that the end-of-life (EOL) of Java SE 6 has been moved from November 2012 to February 2013. This is to give organizations small and large more time to transition to Java SE 7. This is the second EOL extension given to Java SE 6, the original EOL date being July 2012. The last publicly available release of Java SE 6 will be in February 2013 with the release of Java SE 6u37.
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Agile 2012 Keynote: Bob Sutton on Scaling Up Excellence
The introductory keynote at Agile 2012 in Dallas entitled Scaling Up Excellence was delivered by Bob Sutton, Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and author of numerous business books including "Good Boss, Bad Boss" and "The No Asshole Rule".
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Agile 2012 Session: Stop Listening to Your Customers
Brandon Carlson gave a talk at Agile 2012 titled Stop Listening to Your Customers in which he makes the case for using deep analytics and application instrumentation to discover customer behavior and use that to help guide product requirements. He spoke about the impact of wasted effort and unused features and how just listening to customer requests will result in unused, bloated products.
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Community-Driven Research: Most Important and Adoption-Ready Agile Practices?
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a third question about the "Most Important & Adoption-Ready Agile Practices?". This is part of 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.