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GPU.NET 2.0 Brings HPC to Linux and Mac
GPU.NET 2.0 supports Mono, enabling building and deploying computational intensive applications for Linux and Mac OS X along the already supported Windows.
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SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Brings Easier Schema Upgrades, Improved Query Performance
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 brings several features such as DAC Framework for easier schema upgrades, new DMVs and XEvents for better supportability, Improved Query Performance with ForceSeek and ForceScan and Disk space control for PowerPivot.
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Cross-Compiling Scala for .NET
Scala, a popular language for the Java platform, is making inroads to .NET thanks to a project run by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and funded by Microsoft. The project heavily relies on Jeroen Frijters’ IKVM, which is a Java Virtual Machine that runs on the CLR (.NET and Mono).
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Web Workbench Introduces Sass, LESS, and CoffeeScript to Visual Studio 2010
Mindscape recently announced Web Workbench, a free extension that adds Sass, LESS, and CoffeeScript functionality to Visual Studio 2010. Sass and LESS are languages meant to simplify CSS3 development, and CoffeeScript increases JavaScript’s readability and conciseness.
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Upcoming Agile Coach Camps
Agile coaches facilitate the transformations of teams and organizations to agile methods. Agile coach camps are open space unconferences where coaches gather to share and learn. There are two upcoming coach camps, one in Bletchley Park in the UK, the other in Columbus Ohio in the US.
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Making OpenXML Easy with ClosedXML
When working with Excel documents, developers usually use raw XML or rely on the Office Automation libraries. But the Office Automation library is not appropriate for servers and working with XML can be quite tedious. ClosedXML bridges the gap by providing an easy to use Office-like API without the overhead of COM. To introduce this library we spoke with Manuel De Leon of the ClosedXML project.
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The Diary of a REST “Convert”
In his new article ZapThink’s Ronald Schmelzer tries to explain why REST is a better option for implementing SOA.
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Veracity, a New DVCS Based on a Distributed Database
Veracity is a DVCS that can be installed on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and uses a distributed database for its repository.
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Selenium 2 (a.k.a Selenium WebDriver) Is Released
The Selenium team has recently released Selenium 2 (a.k.a. Selenium WebDriver), a major update to the poplar test framework for web applications.
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Confusion Abounds When Aligning Business Architects
Organizations continue to struggle when identifying the role of business architects and persist in misaligning them to IT departments. Tom Graves, an Enterprise Architect at Tetradian Consulting, pointed out the problems this causes and challenges architects to not accept the status quo but rather, try and improve the situation.
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Xamarin Gets All IP Rights for Mono and Related Products
Mono is back where it started. Miguel de Icaza and his developers have all legal rights to continue developing Mono and all related products due to an agreement with SUSE, now part of The Attachmate Group.
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CassandraSF2011: Progress and Futures
Johnathan Ellis keynoted at Cassandra SF 2011. Ellis reviewed accomplishments including better support for multi-data center deployments, optimized read performance, included integrated caching and improved client APIs including a SQL-like language CQL. Looking forward, Ellis emphasized polish - efficient database repair, storage compression, optimized performance and an expanded CQL language.
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Cassandra Indexing Guidelines from CassandraSF2011
Ed Anuff reviewed Cassandra's built-in secondary indexes, noting that they don't work well for high cardinality values, require at least one equality comparison and return unsorted results. Anuff presented patterns for alternative indexing including wide rows and tables that use Cassandra 0.8.1's new composite comparator operators to overcome these limitations.
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Forrester Proclaims Data Virtualization Technology Coming of Age
Businesses have been strangled by high integration costs from ETL and DBMS consolidation initiatives which still leads to information silos and a broken data infrastructure. Forrester in its latest report claims that data virtualization driven by technological advances and customer successes is ready for massive adoption.
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Google Code Gets Git
Google Code has finally released support for Git repositories on Google Code, adding to the existing DVCS support with Mercurial and the CVCS support of Subversion. The only remaining player not to fully move towards Git repositories is now Apache, which has its own read-only copies of a writable Subversion repository.