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ZK Web Framework 6.0 Released: New Data Binding System
ZK Web Framework 6.0 released with a completely new data binding system, jQuery style selectors that run on the server, Servlet 3.0 Async support, new components and several other enhancements.
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Web API Design Book - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love
Apigee, provider of API products and technology for enterprises and developers, has announced the release of "Web API Design: Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love", a free e-book on designing Web APIs. The e-book is a collection of REST API design practices developed in collaboration with various API teams around the world undergoing the Apigee design workshop.
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WebSocket Support In Windows 8
As both the WebSocket Protocol and the WebSocket API gain full-fledged support in the Windows 8 Consumer preview, ASP.NET developers can start taking advantage of the bidirectional capabilities by using System.Web.WebSockets library.
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Go 1–The First Major Release of the Google Go Language
Go has reached the first major release, Google promising it will be stable for the years to come. YouTube uses Go in their core infrastructure.
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Frustration with the Role and Purpose of Architects on Software Projects
Is software architecture a poorly done and frequently neglected aspect of software projects? That’s the position put forth in a recent blog post by Simon Brown, an independent consultant and founder of CodingTheArchitecture.com. Brown contends that miscast architects and a casual approach to architecture on agile projects have contributed to the poor state of the architecture discipline.
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ASP.NET MVC Now Taking Contributions
Technically speaking, ASP.NET MVC has been open source all along. But as with most Microsoft projects it wasn’t “open development”, all work was done internally with occasionally drops. As of yesterday, that all changed. Everyone in the community is now able to contribute code and tests to ASP.NET MVC, Web Pages, and Web API.
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CodePlex Now Offers Git
Due to overwhelming demand, CodePlex is now offering Git for source control. Git is the third source control system available for CodePlex hosted projects, the first two being TFS and Mercurial.
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EclipseCon 2012: Community Award Winners, Eclipse 4 Application Platform, and Orion 1.0
The Eclipse Foundation has announced the winners of the annual Eclipse Community Awards on the opening day EclipseCon 2012. The awards recognize the top individuals, projects and technologies in the Eclipse ecosystem.
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Simplified UI Development with MonoTouch.SQLite
When working with iOS and MonoTouch, you may find yourself needing to display data from a SQLite table. While this can be done directly by building up your own UITableViewController, the process can be quite time consuming with quite a bit of boilerplate code. Jeffrey Stedfast has found a way to reduce simple table binding to what’s basically a single method with MonoTouch.SQLite.
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Changes and Guidance for the Task Parallel Library in .NET 4.5
With .NET 4.5 the way you work with the Task class has changed in a subtle but important way.
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OSGi Provides Early Access Specifications for Release 5
Today at OSGi DevCon, the OSGi Alliance announced the availability of the early access for Release 5 of OSGi Core and Enterprise specifications. The final release of OSGi R5 is expected later this Summer. Read on to find out what's new in the latest release of these specifications.
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More on Windows Workflow Foundation Support for PowerShell 3
Microsoft is starting to release more details on Windows PowerShell Workflow. Also known as PSWF, this feature of PowerShell 3 allows administrators to “reliably executing long-running tasks across multiple computers, devices or IT processes”. Since we are talking about Windows Workflow, the term “long-running” can mean hours or even days.
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Power Tools for TFS 11 Beta
The Power Tools for Team Foundation Server have been updated for version 11 Beta. These tools provide essential functionality that isn’t included with the main TFS release including PowerShell support, Windows Shell Extensions, and the ability to modify process templates.
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Introducing the Mono for Android UI Designer
Mono for Android will soon have its own visual UI designer. Currently a private beta is available; developers interested are encouraged to sign up for the Mono for Android Designer Beta program. We spoke with Lluis Sanchez, the UI designer architect, for more information.
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WPF Table View, a Lightweight Data Grid Built for Performance
We spoke with Graham Knight about his WPF Table View project. WPF Table View is a lightweight data grid designed to handle very large data sets with 100,000+ rows.