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  • Facebook Open Sources Modules for Faster Deep Learning on Torch

    Facebook has open sourced a number of modules for faster training of neural networks on Torch.

  • Atom API 1.0 is Stable

    The Atom’s team has announced a pre-release but stable version of the editor’s API.

  • Major release for L20n, Mozilla's Localisation Framework

    Mozilla has released version 1.0 of L20n, an open source, localisation-specific scripting language.

  • RESTier: A New Framework for Building OData Services

    The Microsoft OData Team has made available the preview version of RESTier, a middleware development framework for building OData 4.0 RESTful APIs. RESTier is based on ASP.NET Web API.

  • jQuery Takes Over the Pointer Events Polyfill from Google

    The Chromium team announced back in August that Google is no longer working on implementing Pointer Events in Chrome in order to focus on Touch Events. Now they have given control to the Pointer Events polyfill library to jQuery which is hoping to “drive developer adoption of this unified event system” and eventually see “all browsers implement this standard natively.”

  • Prana: A Sidecar Application for NetflixOSS-based Services

    Netflix has released Prana, an open-source "sidecar" application the company developed to allow heterogeneous microservice applications to use the NetflixOSS JVM-based platform support libraries.

  • Google Open Sources Cloud Dataflow Java SDK

    Google announced earlier this year their Cloud Dataflow, a service and SDK for processing large amounts of data in batches or real time. Now they have open sourced the Dataflow Java SDK, enabling developers to see how it works and possibly use the SDK for services running on-premises or in other clouds.

  • Cloud Foundry Foundation Forms with 40 Member Companies

    Cloud Foundry Foundation is formed to established formal open governance model for the Cloud Foundry open source Platform as a Service (PaaS).

  • Serial Key Generating for .NET

    While many applications are now being sold through app stores, mid-sized and big-ticket software is still offered directly to customers via web sites. For these kinds of projects, out-of-band licensing is still a major concern. One way to manage licenses is via serial keys using libraries such as SKGL.

  • Io.js, Node.js Fork, Plans First Release for January 2015

    Io.js officially launched this week. A GitHub fork of joyent/node where contributions, releases, and contributorship are under an open governance model, plans its first release for January 2015. With some core members of the Node.js community dissatisfied with Joyent's Advisory board, and by Node's lack of releases, core team member Fedor Indutny set up io.js.

  • A First Look to .NET Core

    Microsoft announced at connect() that .NET Core would be open sourced and it would provide a single code base to support all platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. Recently, Immo Landwerth, Program Manager at Microsoft, has given more details about what .NET Core is and how it will provide "the foundation for all future .NET platforms."

  • .NET Foundation Round-up

    The .NET Foundation Advisory Council has extended the community feedback period to Friday, December 5th. After the fifth, the Foundation will begin to officially form next year’s council. You can read more about the Advisory Council, propose changes, and discuss nominations on the .NET Foundation Forum.

  • Facebook Flow Provides More Static Typing for JavaScript

    Announced during @Scale 2014, Facebook has open sourced Flow, a static type checker for JavaScript. Flow joins Microsoft TypeScript and Google AtScript to provide web developers with a tool meant to catch some bugs in the code before they manifest at runtime.

  • Docker Client Comes to Microsoft Windows

    After announcing the partnership with Docker, Microsoft has built a native Docker client. The command line interface (CLI) is fully compatible with Docker client running on Linux.

  • Lovefield: An SQL-like Query Engine by Google

    Lovefield is a JavaScript library providing an SQL-like query engine to web developers who want the benefits of a relational database.

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