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ASP.NET MVC Testing Tips and Tricks
There are several components in an ASP.NET MVC 3 web app – models, controllers, route-handlers, views, html-helpers, client-side code etc. Most of these can be unit-tested, others need integration tests, and several good practices can help you keep your tests more maintainable and avoid making them brittle.
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Jetty gets Speedy
The Jetty project recently announced that Jetty now has SPDY support. InfoQ caught up with Greg Wilkins and Simone Bordet to find out more about the protocol, and what advantages it may bring.
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LinkedIn Engineering Releases SenseiDB 1.0.0
LinkedIn engineering releases SenseiDB 1.0.0, a NoSQL database focused on high update rates and complex semi-structured search queries, already used in production by LinkedIn in its search related pages (e.g. People/Company search)
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Rich Hickey Speaks on Datomic at Clojure/West
Rich Hickey spoke at the Clojure/West conference last weekend about his newest venture, Datomic, which he describes as “a distributed database designed to enable scalable, flexible and intelligent applications, running on cloud architectures.” Datomic sits on Amazon’s DynamoDB, and embeds Datalog, a subset of Prolog, to move queries into the application.
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T-SQL Improvements in SQL Server 2012
T-SQL received a lot of improvements in SQL Server 2012 including support for the ANSI FIRST_VALUE and LAST_VALUE functions, declarative data paging using FETCH and OFFSET, and .NET’s parsing and formatting functions.
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Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell
Microsoft has released a beta of a new tool called Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell. This tool is essentially a specialized search engine for PowerShell scripts. It allows administrators to browse and search for scripts in TechNet Script Center and PoshCode as well as their own corporate repositories.
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Hazelcast 2.0 Released with Off-Heap Storage and Distributed Backups
Version 2.0 of Hazelcast, a Java-based caching, clustering and data distribution solution, has recently been released. As part of this, the product is now offered in both commercial Enterprise and free open-source Community Editions.
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Your Tractor Was Built With Agile
A recent agile adoption at John Deere has lessons for companies that say "Can't work here." Focusing on the big bang approach instead of an incremental adoption pattern, John Deere crafted a process that works for most of its systems development.
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NoOps: Its Meaning and the Debate around It
Some PaaS companies propose NoOps solutions where the developers do the minimum amount of operations needed, the rest of it being hidden in the cloud. But the NoOps term has sparked a debate, some considering it inappropriate.
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Software Architecture for the eCar of the Future
In a recent news release the Siemens AG addressed how important new information and communications technology will be in future electric cars. A German government funded project investigates in appropriate software architecture for such cars.
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AI Researcher Judea Pearl obtains Turing Award
The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) announced on 15th March that they award Dr. Judea Pearl for “for his work on the partnership between humans and machines, part of what is generally known as artificial intelligence”.
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Exploring the Windows Azure Outage
Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform recently suffered a partial service outage due to a leap year bug. We review the cause and Microsoft's response.
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OData for LightSwitch
Microsoft is continuing its plan to make OData as ubiquitous as web services. Their latest offering allows LightSwitch 2 to both produce and consume OData services.
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Mozilla Mulls H.264 Support
Historically, Mozilla has rejected the use of non-open codecs (such as H.264), a subject that has been covered before on InfoQ. The main reason is ideological; H.264 is covered by patents and licensed by the MPEG-LA. Could this stance be softening, with the proposal to allow platform-provided codecs for video support?
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Web Workbench Adds Support for Visual Studio 11
Web Workbench, the extension that brings Sass, LESS, and Coffeescript to Visual Studio, has been updated. This release adds support for Visual Studio 11, improvements to the import process and collapsible outlining for CoffeeScript.