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Automated Testing Solutions for Android
There are a number of automated testing frameworks or tools for Android applications, including but not limited to Activity Instrumentation, MonkeyRunner, Robotium, or Robolectric. LessPainful is providing automated tested on real devices as a service.
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New Extension Introduces Microsoft Office to LightSwitch
The Office Integration Pack enables Visual Studio LightSwitch developers to work with data in Microsoft Office 2010. With this extension, users are able to create documents, spreadsheets, and PDFs; send Outlook appointments and emails; and move data to and from Excel.
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Python and Django on Heroku
Python has joined the growing ranks of officially-supported languages on Heroku's polyglot platform, going into public beta this week. Python was the most-requested language for Heroku, and it brings with the Django web framework.
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AWS Targets Scientific Community with New Resources for High Performance Computing
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) team announced a set of resources targeting the high performance computing needs of the scientific community. AWS specifically highlights their “spot pricing” market as a way to do cost-effective, massive scale computing in Amazon cloud environment.
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Amazon’s New Browser, Silk, Is Using a Split Architecture
Amazon has created Silk, a WebKit-based browser using SPDY to maintain a single connection with services hosted on AWS where web pages are preloaded and prepared for being pushed to the device. The effect: faster browsing, less device power consumption and better security.
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Model-Driven Approach to Service-Oriented Enterprise (SOE)
Business-IT alignment, now part of mainstream EA, is increasingly viewed as an unnecessary overhead in a world where IT is a core business entity in the enterprise. Anirban Ray proposes a model driven approach to creating a SOE which makes a core assumption that IT is an integral part of the business which leads to business focused service offerings.
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Architectural Mirages
We have lived through many unfounded architectural promises. In his recent post William Vambenepe discusses another one – sharing a single API amongst many UI/Ajax consumers.
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Tizen, a New Open Source Mobile OS Developed by Intel and Samsung
Intel is dropping MeeGo and joining forces with Samsung to create Tizen, a new mobile OS based on HTML5 and emerging web technologies.
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Breaking Changes Planned for .NET 4.5
The actual version number for .NET 4.5 assemblies is 4.0.30319. If that looks familiar it is because that is also the version number for .NET 4.0 assemblies. Much to the chagrin of developers, Microsoft will be updating core assemblies “in-place” despite the fact that it includes breaking changes.
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SlideShare migrates from Flash to HTML5
Today, Slideshare, the popular on-line presentation hosting site, completed its transition to using HTML5 instead of Flash for its eponymous slide sharing utility. Read on to find out more about the issues experienced and the rationale for moving over to an open standard.
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There Will Be No Metro UI for Mono
Miguel de Icaza said that Xamarin won’t port Metro to other platforms, one of the reasons being Linux’ failure on the desktop. .NET developers interested in writing cross platform apps will be able to do so using Mono for the business code and rewriting the UI code for each platform.
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ASP.NET MVC Pipeline And Extensibility
ASP.NET MVC is designed with extensibility in mind and almost every part of processing pipeline is extensible using your own providers to replace the standard implementation. Simone Chiaretta, in his blog post “An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Extensibility” gives an introduction to various stages in the ASP.NET MVC Pipeline, and a brief explanation of how extensibility comes into picture.
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Modularity Maturity Model
At the OSGi Community Event, Dr Graham Charters introduced the Modularity Maturity Model, a way of scoring where projects or organisations against how their modular developments score.
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Tasktop Sync Supports Application Lifecycle Management Synchronization
The new release of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool Tasktop supports an ALM synchronization solution that addresses the visibility and traceability needs of the software development teams. Tasktop team announced the release of Tasktop Sync 1.0 version last month. They also recently released Tasktop Dev 2.1 version which builds on Eclipse Indigo release of Mylyn 3.6.
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Apache Felix Framework 4.0.0 Adds OSGi 4.3 Support
The Apache Felix project has just released the Apache Felix Framework, version 4.0.0, which adds OSGi 4.3 support to the Apache-licensed runtime. This brings it in line with Equinox, which has had OSGi 4.3 support for the last few months, and will permit applications to be written purely against the OSGi 4.3 APIs and have portability between the two systems. Read on to find out what's new.