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Improving Responsiveness in Visual Studio 2012
Microsoft has spent time producing quantifiable editing performance improvements. By using an approach that combines an "Immediate Delay Tracker" and Event Tracing for Windows, solid gains have been reported.
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Four Tips on How to Plan Innovative Experiments
In a short video presentation Vijay Govindarajan from Tuck School of Business talks about innovation and shares his tips on how to plan successful experiments in companies.
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Node.js Gets SQL Server Driver, Better Windows Tooling
Microsoft continues to invest in Node.js, this time by introducing a new, open source SQL Server Driver and new Node-specific features in WebMatrix.
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Microsoft Test Manager 2012 Adds Manual Testing Support for Win8 Tablets
Of all the forms of testing there is one that simply cannot be skipped. It doesn’t matter how good your automated tests are, manual testing still has to be performed before an application ships. With the release of MS Test Manager 2012, Microsoft intends to make it manual tests significantly easier.
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OSGi Release 5 Specifications add Repositories and Version Ranges
The OSGi Alliance have released the specifications for Release 5 of their namesake framework, standardising the OSGi Bundle Repository, utilising the generic Capability requirements model, and introducing programmatic access to version ranges. This joins the recently-released OSGi 4.3 Compendium and Residential specifications. OSGi R5 is implemented in Equinox, due to be released later this month.
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Microsoft, Dell, ASUS and Sexism
During the Norwegian Developers Conference (NDC) last week Microsoft's regional subsidiary featured a group of dancing girls jumping around on stage to a Scooter-esque song with some rather inappropriate lyrics
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Interview: Improving the Performance of Android ICS
In this interview, Bernhard Rosenkränzer, a Linaro engineer, explains how they improved the performance of Android 4.0.4 from 20% to 500%.
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MEF for Windows 8 Metro and TPL Data Flow Moved to NuGet
Microsoft has decided to remove MEF for Windows 8 Metro and TPL Data Flow from the .NET 4.5 framework release. Instead they will be offered as NuGet packages so that improvements can be released outside of the full .NET release cycle.
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Google Announces PageSpeed Insights 2.0
Google has released PageSpeed Insights 2.0 with an interface redesign, extensions for Chrome and Firefox, automatic page optimizations with an online service or via SDK, an API, support for mobile devices and more analysis rules.
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Using NDepend and LINQ to Examine Code
NDepend has released a new version of their flagship static code analysis product. NDepend 4 introductes Code Query LINQ, NDepend.API, and VS 2012 support.
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Eclipse Community Survey 2012
The Eclipse Community Survey results for 2012 have been published, showing a significant increase of Git over other version control systems. It also highlights that whilst Spring is still widely used, EJBs and OSGi are popular frameworks as well. Finally, the use of Maven seems to be increasing, at least in displacing PDE build.
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Is Chef Ready for the Enterprise?
During last month’s first Chef conference in San Francisco, Chris Brown, Opscode CTO, presented the “state of the union” regarding the future of Chef, claiming that the known infrastructure management tool is now ready to use in complex enterprise environments running on heterogeneous platforms.
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Comparing NHibernate and Entity Framework
Developer Ricardo Peres of Portugal has published a seemingly unbiased comparison of the leading .NET ORMs: NHibernate and Entity Framework. While we recommend anyone considering both to read his article, Differences Between NHibernate and Entity Framework, we are going to tough on some of the key differences.
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Resources On Async Tasks
Async Tasks, included in the Task Parallel Library, is a great way to write asynchronous code in – we look at a few resources that show how to use this API in different scenarios and what are the various considerations.
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Does Agile Make the PMO Obsolete?
At the recent Agile Australia conference Agile coach Renee Troughton spoke about her experiences changing the governance model at large organizations in Australia and New Zealand. Other commentators talk about the need for "Fluid IT" and discuss governance models that radically change or remove the need for the PMO.