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Debate: What’s the Reason For MySpace’s Decline?
Some argue that MySpace has lost ground to Facebook because of their technology – Microsoft stack – and due to lack of enough talent in Los Angeles, while others opine that it is management’s fault and the departure of many people when the company was acquired by News Corp. in 2006.
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The Last Flight of the Unladen Swallow
Unladen Swallow was an attempt to bring LLVM optimisations to the CPython runtime, but hasn't seen significant activity for the last year. Now, a Unladen swallow retrospective confirms that the project is defunct and is no longer being developed. What happened?
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Microsoft releases Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7
On Mar 23, 2011, Microsoft announced the availability the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7. The toolkit, downloadable from CodePlex, installs as a Visual Studio 2010 extension, and is designed to make it easier for developers to build applications on Microsoft Windows Phone 7 devices that interact with Windows Azure.
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Is there a Write Side to the Web?
Stu Charlton presented this week a keynote at the WWW 2011 workshop for RESTful design trying to answer the question: "Can the write side of the Web scale and become nearly as serendipitous as the read side?"
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MonoMac Offers .NET Style APIs for Cocoa Development
MonoMac, the newest attempt at creating a GUI toolkit for C# on OS X, has hit its 1.0 release. MonoMac is designed to be much more consistent with other .NET/Mono libraries. This is done by offering a thicker wrapper around the Cocoa APIs that obeys the .NET Framework Design Guidelines.
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OSGi 4.3 brings some Generics and Capabilities
At EclipseCon 2011, the OSGi 4.3 specifications were announced and are available as a public final draft, to be released in the near future. Changes include adding generics to the core API, as well as a general purpose capability model to declare non-coding requirements between bundles. Read on for more information about what to expect.
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The Importance of Agile Feedback Loops
Several members of the Agile community emphasize the importance of feedback loops in the effectiveness of Agile development processes.
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James Gosling Joins Google
In a brief statement on his blog James Gosling has announced that he has joined Google.
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Model Driven Development and Domain Specific Language Best Practices
Markus Voelter has published an update to his 2008 "MDD and DSL Best Practices" article. One of his core conclusions today is that "the distinction between modeling and programming goes away almost completely."
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Visual C++ gets GPU-accelerated graphics and animations, Intrinsics
The new Visual Studio 2010 SP1 improves Visual C++ with GPU-accelerated graphics and animations support and Compiler-Intrinsics, which allow for highly efficient computing.
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Hadoop Futures at Structure Big Data: DataStax Brisk, EMC, and MapR
DataStax described Brisk their new Hadoop distribution that stores data in Cassandra, EMC published an ad that promised big news about Hadoop and Greenplum on May 9th, and GigaOm claimed that MapR Technologies is building a proprietary version of Hadoop. DataStax told InfoQ there are production Cassandra clusters of 700 nodes, storing hundreds of terbaytes, and doing 200,000 writes per second.
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MongoDB 1.8 Improves Reliability with Journaling
MongoDB's new journaling feature improves reliability with write-ahead redo logs. Log entries are written before permanent storage is updated. When a server restarts after a crash outstanding journal files will be replayed before the server goes online. Other changes include sharding performance boosts, shell tab completion, and the addition of covering and sparse indexes.
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Brisk - Unified Big-Data Platform for Low-Latency Applications and Hadoop/Hive Analytics
DataStax unveiled Brisk, a new distribution that enhances the Hadoop and Hive platform with scalable low-latency data capabilities. This results in a single platform that can act as the low-latency database for extremely high-volume web and real-time applications while providing tightly coupled Hadoop and Hive analytics.
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HTML 5 and CSS 3 Support for Expression Web
Microsoft has released an update to Expression Web 4 to support HTML 5 and CSS 3 development. This update, part of Service Pack 1, is only a partial solution; it offers IntelliSense and error-checking support but with only partial preview support. This update also includes expanded support for PHP IntelliSense.
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Eclipse Mylyn 3.5 brings Jenkins into View
Eclipse Mylyn 3.5 has just been released, bringing improvements into the task focussed view and additional bugzilla queries. But the biggest new feature is the ability to view the state of Jenkins/Hudson builds as well as drill into test failures in order to locally replicate the issue.