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Google’s New IaaS Offering Runs Linux VMs in the Cloud
Google today disclosed details of Compute Engine, an IaaS offering that runs Linux VMs on demand utilizing Google’s cloud infrastructure. Google Compute Engine (GCE) supports 1, 2, 4 and 8 virtual core VMs with 3.75GB RAM per virtual core
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QCon San Francisco November 5-9 - Tracks Announced, Registration Open; Featuring GraphConnect
QCon San Francisco 2012, taking place November 5-9, is now open for registration ($800 savings until July 2nd). QCon is an enterprise software development conference for team leads, architects, and project managers covering architecture & design, Java, mobile, functional programming, Lean and Kanban, cloud computing, Big Data & NoSQL, emerging languages, and other timely topics.
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Rx 2.0 Gets .NET 4.0 Support, Handles Absolute Time Better
Reactive Extensions 2.0 RC is out and it now supports .NET 4.0 (except few features) along with 4.5. It also has several improvements in the way it deals with time.
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Eclipse Code Recommenders Proposes Code Based On Bayesian Networks
As part of the Eclipse Juno release, a new project, Eclipse Code recommenders joins the train. The idea of the code recommenders is to adjust and filter the set of proposals given when the code proposal key sequence is triggered. The proposals are suggested based on probabilities of using those methods in the current context. Read on for more.
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Xtend Extends Java
Together with the release of Eclipse Juno, the Eclipse Foundation is proud to announce the release of Xtend 1.0, a Java-compatible language with lambdas and yet full compatibility with the Java runtime.
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Eclipse Juno Brings Eclipse 4 as Standard
Today, the Eclipse Foundation announced the release of Eclipse Juno, the ninth annual simultaneous release train including over 70 projects and for the first time the Eclipse 4 platform in the standard packages. Read on to find out what's new and noteworthy.
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CRaSH: An Extensible Command Line Shell For Monitoring A Running JVM
The Common ReusAble SHell (CRaSH) is an interactive shell (with history support and autocompletion) that attaches to a running JVM and can execute several commands for retrieving JVM statistics or changing JVM internals on the fly. It can be used for remote monitoring and administration of existing Java applications and it is fully extensible via custom Groovy scripts.
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Dan North Discusses The Art Of Misdirection
Dan North has recently discussed the impact of opportunity costs in his article "The Art of Misdirection." Opportunity Cost is about choosing an obvious solution for a particular problem context, although sometimes an alternative option may be the better choice. Software engineers, in particular, are subject to such opportunity costs as they are constantly facing decisions in their daily work.
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Mobile Platforms: What is the Developer Mindshare, Intentshare, App-building Costs and Revenue?
A new survey from VisionMobile shows how developers perceive mobile platforms and what are the costs to develop mobile apps and associated revenues.
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SPDY versus WebSockets?
Lori MacVittie has recently posted an article describing why she believes SPDY will gain much wider acceptance in the Web than WebSockets. For her and several others, the differentiating aspect between these protocols is the way in which they use HTTP and SPDY wins because of this.
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Puppet Labs and EMC open source next-generation provisioning tool: Razor
Puppet Labs and EMC announced last month the availability of Razor, an open source cloud-provisioning tool that allows automated provisioning and inventory of bare metal machines as well as virtual machines based on user-defined tagging rules. The tool currently deploys as a Puppet module and is licensed under Apache 2.0.
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Trying to Answer the Question: Why Some Languages Succeed While Others Fail?
Two researchers at UC Berkeley have investigated programming languages adoption from a sociological perspective. This article summarizes their research and includes an interview with the authors.
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Make Your ASP.NET Web Apps Work On Mobile
The View-switcher feature in ASP.NET MVC 4 makes it easier to make existing desktop-focussed web apps play nice on mobile devices. Scott Hanselman demoes how to use this feature and shares other tips.
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An Alternative Build System: Gradle 1.0 Released
Gradle 1.0, a build system powered by a Groovy DSL, has been released. Gradle is compatible with Ant tasks, Maven repositories, and has support for the popular IDEs. It attempts to find the sweet spot between the flexibility of Ant and convention-over-configuration of Maven.
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How managers as leaders can make your team more successful
In a series of blog posts Johanna Rothman speaks up against the common view of leader and manager roles. She argues that management without leadership can not be successful.