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ASP.NET Web API – A New Way to Handle REST
Web API is the first real alternative to WCF that .NET developers have seen in the last six years. Until now emerging trends such as JSON were merely exposed as WCF extensions. With Web API, developers can leave the WCF abstraction and start working with the underlying HTTP stack.
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QCon London in 2 Weeks - Only 100 Spots Left!
QCon is now less than 2 weeks away and there are only 100 spots left before QCon London completely sells out. Register before March 2nd and receive £75 off. QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors
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The New Adobe Roadmap for Flash, AIR and Flex
Adobe has announced details regarding Flash, AIR, Flex and other related products, presenting how they see the future of these technologies. Adobe repurposes Flash for gaming and premium video.
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Ruby IDE Roundup: JetBrains Releases Rubymine 4.0, Ruby for NetBeans 7.1 in the Works
JetBrains released version 4 of their Ruby IDE RubyMine. This release focuses on better performance, and contains incremental improvements and polishing in many areas. For NetBeans 7.1, a preview release of the community Ruby support is now available.
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ASP.NET MVC 4 is Live
The first beta of ASP.NET MVC 4 has recently been released with a “go-live” license. This means that even though the release is not yet complete, Microsoft is confident enough to allow it in production use. Enhancements include improvements to the Razor view engine, asynchronous support, and more.
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Apache Celebrates 17th Anniversary with HTTP Server 2.4
Apache has released the HTTP Server version 2.4 with performance improvements, enhanced concurrency, asynchronous I/O support, lower resource footprint and others.
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Caucho's Resin Application Server Grew by a Factor of Almost Ten Last Year According to Netcraft
According to Netcraft Resin has been seeing strong growth in the last 12 months, seeing an almost tenfold growth from 480k hostnames in February 2011 to 4.7M in February 2012.
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Economics of AWS Application Hosting
With the recent advances in cloud computing and Amazon Web Services infrastructure, many companies are trying to abandon their IT shops and move their software to the cloud. In his new blog post, Charlie Oppenheimer discusses the economics of cloud computing, comparing it with traditional data centers.
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Code-First Migrations Released With Entity Framework 4.3
Entity Framework 4.3 release finally brings the Migrations feature to Developers, without having to depend on separate pre-release binaries.
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2011 State of Agile Survey Results Show Agile Adoption Stable
VersionOne have recently released the results of their State of Agile Development Survey for 2011, and as always it gives an interesting insight into Agile adoption and trends.
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Visual Basic 6 Renewed to Run on Windows 8
The venerable Visual Basic 6 platform has received another stay of execution from Microsoft with the announcement that it will continue to support the platform on the upcoming Windows 8. Overcoming age and a succession of post-VB6 products (Visual Basic .NET, C#), VB6's simplicity, popularity, and inertia have brought it to the latest frontier. Will Microsoft do more to support it?
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A New Garbage Collector and Memory Profiler for iOS/MonoTouch
MonoTouch for iOS now supports the generational garbage collector SGen. Until recently this was an experimental option only available on the full version of Mono. Along with it comes a Memory Profiler for iOS that it accessible via the MonoDevelop IDE.
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Mikado Method For Refactoring Legacy Software
Daniel Brolund presented the Mikado method in a talk-cum-workshop here in Agile India 2012. This proposes a simple method for agile teams faced with poor legacy code, which needs to be refactored in pieces as and when new goals arrive.
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JBoss AS 7.1 Reaches Full EE Profile Compliance
JBoss AS 7.1 has been released, becoming the first JBoss server to achieve full compliance with the Java EE 6 Full Profile, joining the other open-source servers in full compliance, including Apache Geronimo and Oracle GlassFish. Read on to find out more.
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The Role of Emotions in Software Engineering
A recent study by the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) investigates the importance of emotions in software engineering. In the study requirements engineering is considered