InfoQ Homepage News
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Resources for Windows Phone Developers
In what’s becoming a tradition, Microsoft has once again confused the version numbers of one of their key products. In brief what you need to target Windows Phone 7.5 is the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK and the August 2011 build of the Windows Phone Toolkit. Or you can give the PhoneGap beta a spin.
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Public Beta of Play! is Now Available on Heroku
Play!, a Java Web Framework is now available on Heroku as a public beta. Play! is built on Netty and is well suited for handling asynchronous I/Os. It is based on a "share-nothing" stateless programming model.
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iisnode: Node.js for Internet Information Server
The iisnode project is a module that adds Node support to Internet Information Server 7.0 and later. The primary role of IIS is to act as an application server for Node, much in the same way that it does for classic ASP and ASP.NET. Developers familiar with these technologies will find the feature list to be quite familiar.
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The Future of UI/UX in Agile
Many people who are new to Agile are confused about the place of UI and UX design on Agile teams. Previously many teams have tried keeping the work separate from the team or having the work done one sprint ahead. Recently, there has been more talk about welcoming UI and UX into Agile teams and Lean UX has been at the forefront.
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Visual Studio vNext Code Editor Improvements for C++
Sumit Kumar on the VC++ team has revealed some of the new IDE features for the next version of Visual Studio. While some of them are merely catching up to VB/C#, others suggest new features that all of the languages could take advantage of.
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Official Support for Jython in Visual Studio
Python Tools for Visual Studio, which has its first production release today, now supports all four major Python interpreters, CPython, IronPython, Jython, and PyPy. It is available with the free Visual Studio Integrated Shell or as a plugin for Visual Studio Professional.
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InfoQ’s First Minor UI Update in 5 years – feedback?
On behalf of the InfoQ team, we are happy to announce our underwhelming first minor UI re-launch in our 5 year history. This re-launch is the first in a set of incremental changes that will end with a homepage re-launch later in the year, with your feedback. This first launch maintains the same look and feel but removes the left bar while expanding the header and footer.
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.NET Extension Methods For Microsoft Translator API
Microsoft Translator API exposes Translation services for developers using REST-based and SOAP based end-points. An open source project, Bing (Microsoft) Translator .NET, creates a wrapper around these APIs by using extension methods, making it much easier to build .NET applications that can use translation.
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"Apache Killer" a DDoS using the Range HTTP Header
The "Apache Killer" lets an attacker use a single PC to wage a denial of service attack against an Apache server. So far, the Apache development team has issued an alert and workarounds in advance of rolling out a patch for the flaw in Apache HTTPD Web Server 1.3 and 2.X, but no patches.
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"A standard becomes successful when people don’t talk about it anymore" says OMG's Soley
OMG CEO Richard Soley in a recent interview shares his observations on hype cycle effects on adoption patterns and how it may affect cloud computing like it did SOA. He extolls some virtues of cloud computing for startups and also explains why it may still not be as big a deal for larger businesses, despite the hype.
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RightScale Is One Step Closer to a Unified Cloud API
RightScale, a company providing unified access to multiple clouds, has announced a new release of their cloud management platform consisting of a new MultiCloud API, a new Add Server Assistant, and a Community Translations.
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Controversial Opinions on Software Patents - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Patents are quite often in the news these days, most notably the ones related to smart phone vendors like HTC, Samsung, Google and Apple. This also holds for the rather emotional and controversial discussion about software patents which some consider as a means to ensure innovation and others as a kind of weapon. Do software patents cause more harm than good, or vice versa?
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Noda Time: An Advanced Date/Time Library for .NET
To put it bluntly, the date/time libraries in .NET are flawed. In an effort to address many, but far from all, of these problems Jon Skeet is working on a port of Joda Time called Noda Time.
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What is the Future of Flash and Flex?
Adobe wants to strengthen Flash and Flex’s position in the enterprise and especially in the mobile space. But a recent study shows that jQuery has overtaken Flash as a deployed web solution on the top 17,000 websites.
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New in RAD Studio XE2: Multiplatform, Native iOS&Android, HD&3D Animation, and Cloud
Embarcadero is preparing a new release of their RAD Studio XE2 tools which includes Delphi XE2, C++Builder XE2, RADPHP XE2, and Prism XE2, at exactly one year after the initial launch of the XE line on August 30, 2010. This release has many new features, the most interesting being support for cross-platform development, Windows 64-bit, Amazon Cloud API, Native Android and iOS, and HD&3D animation.