InfoQ Homepage News
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PHP 5.4 Drops Register Globals, Adds Traits
PHP 5.4, the first major update since 2009, was finalized this month. This release includes several language enhancements including support for Traits as well as the removal of some controversial features.
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Cloud Computing Can Innovate the Business Model and Will Create New Jobs
An IBM study proposes six cloud computing enablers for the business model innovation, while an IDC paper estimates that cloud computing will create 14M jobs worldwide by 2015.
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Hypersensitivity To Tool Use In The Agile Community
Steve Ropa challenges agilists on the use of tools in agile software development, and InfoQ seeks further opinions on "individuals and interactions over processes and tools".
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AppDynamics Extends APM Solution to Include End User Monitoring
Application Performance Management Vendor AppDynamics announced the addition of End User Monitoring support to their product on March 7th. The AppDynamics agent uses JavaScript to record data from the browser and incorporates it with the data collected on the server side.
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Visual Studio 11: Who Develops for the Developers?
The news on Visual Studio 11 has included a lot of information about user interface changes and project managment features. While important they are also off-center from the primary tasks most developers face everyday, writing production quality code. So what new features does Microsoft have for C++ developers in the trenches?
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Google Has Open Sourced WindowTester Pro
Google has decided to open source WindowTester Pro, a Java tool used for automated SWT and Swing GUI testing.
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HeadwaySoftware has added support for Doxygen and Understand in structure101 and restructure101
HeadwaySoftware has recently added support for Doxygen and Understand for C and C++, Delphi and Python programmers in its tools structure101 and restructure101.
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Improved JavaScript development in Visual Studio 11
Microsoft intends to make JavaScript development easier in Visual Studio 11 by significantly enhancing Intellisense, debugging support, editor functionality, and more.
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Shared View Management for ASP.NET MVC
Michael Kennedy has released a small library designed to help ASP.NET MVC developers manage unwieldy Shared Views folders. This simple addition allows developers to use sub-folders for views.
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Announcing the jQuery Foundation
A non-profit trade association by the name jQuery Foundation, inc. has been founded to handle the development, documentation, and support of the jQuery Core, UI, and Mobile projects. This role was previously held by the jQuery Board in conjunction with the Software Freedom Conservancy.
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LINQ for F#
F# 3.0, included in the Visual Studio 11 beta, gains the ability to use LINQ expressions. Other features include support for Portable Libraries and auto-implemented properties.
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Pivot-Thinking – The Neuroscience of Design
The Center of Professional Development at the Stanford University offers a free live seminar on 8th March (9.00 am / PST) addressing the thinking behind design thinking. Pivot thinking is a new research area that addresses how to bridge the gap between "convergers" and "divergers" in teams which is particularly interesting for software engineering projects.
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Coverity: Open Source Code Has Fewer Defects than Commercial One
A Coverity study concludes that open source code using static analysis has on average a lower number of defects than commercial code, but they are on par when it comes to code of similar sizes.
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A look at Visual Basic 11
Visual Basic 11 brings with it several new features including asynchronous functions and the long awaited iterators.
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Visual Studio 11 Beta Supports Multiple Test Frameworks
NUnit, XUnit.net, QUnit, Jasmine, Chutzpah are all supported in the Visual Studio 11 Beta along with MSUnit, promising better choice and over-all unit-testing experience for developers. And the list is expected to get bigger towards the final release of VS 11.