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.NET 4.5 Raises the Bar for Web Development Productivity
With the release of .NET 4.5 nearing, Microsoft has started to pull back the curtain on the next version of their development platform. While there has been a lot of fanfare around Metro and Windows 8, the improvements made to the core features of .NET, which have traditionally focused on web, service, and data development, may steal the show in the short term.
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World IPv6 Day
Today is World IPv6 day, when large organisations will enable IPv6 resolution of their hosts will be enabled permanently. This follows on from last year's successful tests when IPv6 connectivity was enabled for a day.
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What’s new with Roslyn, Microsoft’s Compiler APIs
Roslyn is a set of libraries for handling compilation, scripting, workspaces, and IDE services. It is an extensible model with VB and C# being the first two target languages. While still far from completion, Roslyn is targeting VB 12/C# 6, this release marks a major milestone for the project.
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ASP.NET Web API Now Uses Json.NET, Gets Several Enhancements
ASP.NET Web API Release Candidate gets several enhancements such as Json.NET as the default serializer, better testability of Http Message handlers, the IAPIExplorer API and more.
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Scrumodoro: Methods For Personal Effectiveness Within Scrum
Scrum and Pomodoro are blended by Mangus Nord to maximize both team and individual productivity.
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Developers Warned to Follow Windows 8 Metro Guidelines
Metro app developers are strongly encouraged to stay within Microsoft's carefully planned boundaries of the Windows 8 SDK for Metro style apps. InfoQ explores this and the containers used by these apps.
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Booz Allen Wins $87.7 Million Order to Provide Software Architecture Support to U.S. Army
As published by Defence Professionals the U.S. company Booz Allen has recently won an $87.8 million order to provide software architecture support for the U.S. Army’s Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS-A).
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NASA Develops Space Launch System Flight Software
Developing launch vehicle flight software requires a big focus on embedded systems and quality attributes such as safety. To develop such mission-critical software systems, sophisticated test beds are necessary. According to a NASA press release from the 31st of May, the software test bed computers for the new Space Launch System (SLS) are now available.
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Microsoft Has Changed Its Mind: Windows 8 IE Metro Renders Flash
In a surprising twist, Microsoft has made available Windows 8 Release Preview with support for Flash in IE 10 Metro and Desktop, both on x86 and ARM platforms.
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APIs Cannot be Copyrighted
The judge in the ongoing Oracle vs Google case has set out an order that the structure, sequence and organisation of APIs cannot be copyrightable. The case is effectively over, with Oracle having lost on all counts, and the only copying found to be nine lines of code. Read on to find out more.
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Lean Startup Machine Returns to Toronto
Lean Startup Machine is returning to Toronto June 8-10. I had an opportunity to chat with Jason Little, who was a member of Hire Shark, which won the previous LSM event in Toronto. Jason is returning as one of the event organizers and mentors.
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Microsoft-Led Consortium Submits OData Protocol to OASIS for Standardization
Microsoft, along with a set of other software industry leaders, is attempting to make its data query protocol OData an industry standard. A proposal has been submitted to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) with the hope of generating wider adoption of this framework.
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Visual Studio 11 Renamed "Visual Studio 2012", Release Candidate Now Available with .NET 4.5
Today Microsoft announced the availability of Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate with .NET 4.5, formerly known as “Visual Studio 11”. This release includes performance improvements, a more "Metro-style" user interface, customized installation, and new Team Foundation Server features.
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Improving Productivity and Efficiency for Fully Distributed Teams
Andrew Montalenti on his blog pixelmoneky.org talks about viability of fully distributed teams now and in the future.
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Spring Mobile 1.0 Released
SpringSource has released Spring Mobile 1.0. Spring Mobile contains extensions to Spring MVC that helps with the development of mobile web applications.