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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.
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Windows 7 Taskbar Integration for Websites
Microsoft’s is offering some of the same Windows 7 taskbar features to website developers that they offer to native application developers. Websites can be “pinned” by dragging them into the taskbar. Once there the website shows its own icon, tooltip, and jump list as if it were an installed application.
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Moonlight Playbacks Video Directly on GPU
Moonlight has been enhanced to support GPU-accelerated video playback. Silverlight 5 will do the same, but with extra features.
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What is a Commitment Anyway?
Commitment is defined as the act of binding yourself to a course of action. In Scrum, commitment has a strong meaning and Scrum practitioners suggest that authentic Scrum is not possible if people are not keeping commitments. In-spite of this, forums have a lot of questions about commitments not being met. Do we understand the real meaning of commitment?
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Unity 3.3 adds support for the Android
Unity technologies announced March 1st that their popular game development tool Unity now supports the Android. The pricing model is the same as for iOS, $400 for Unity Android and $1500 for Unity Android Pro.
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IBM Releases New 64-bit Java SDK for z/OS
IBM has released two new Java 6 SDKs based on its J9 VM, to take advantage of enhancements to z/OS Java security and the new z196 instructions.
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Firefox: Mozilla Wants a New Development Process, Firefox 4 and the Roadmap
The Mozilla team wants to switch Firefox development to a schedule-driven process to speed up releases. Firefox 4 has been recently released with many improvements, while the roadmap outlines plans for versions 5, 6, and 7.
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WPF on Mono? It is a matter of funding.
Miguel de Icaza, founder of the Mono project, says that support for Windows Presentation Foundation on Mono is possible, but would require funding for 15 to 20 developers over a period of two to three years. As an alternative he proposes using other toolkits, but they too need community support.
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GlassFish Server 3.1 Supports JavaEE 6 Web Profile & Full Platform, Clustering and High Availability
The latest version of GlassFish application server supports JavaEE 6 Web Profile & Full Platform, improved OSGi support, clustering and high availability. Oracle recently released version 3.1 of commercial (Oracle GlassFish Server) and community (GlassFish Server Open Source Edition) versions of the server. New release also provides centralized administration and improved JDBC monitoring.
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FlexMonkey Reloaded Released Featuring a Revamped Console
The FlexMonkey open source tool for testing Flex and AIR applications, has released a new beta version (code-named "Reloaded"), which features a completely revamped console and full FlexUnit 4 integration.
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Eclipse launches Open Beta of OrionHub
The Eclipse Foundation has announced the availability of OrionHub, a hosted implementation of Orion, the new web-based platform for build and editing.
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Entity Framework 4.1 gets DbContext API – but no Database Evolution, SPs or Cached queries
ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 is upon us – slated for a late April release, it will come with a whole set of new features, but not all of them are going to make it.
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Are RESTful Web Services really RESTful APIs?
One of the co-authors of RESTful Web Services, Leonard Richardson, believes that the term "web service" is dying out and is being replaced by "API". He wonders why this is the case, when it started to happen and whether or not this is leading to poorer product implementations.
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Object Oriented Programming is out of the CMU Computer Science Introductory Curriculum
Robert Harper and Dan Licata, Professors of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, announced last week that they have decided to "eliminate entirely" OOP from the CS introductory curriculum.