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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.
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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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Facebook Open Sources Proxygen, an HTTP Framework Supporting SPDY 3.1
The idea behind Proxygen is not to replace Apache but having the ability to create a specialized high-performance web server that can be embedded into existing applications providing web services. Facebook initially started to build a proxy (hence the name) server in 2011, and now they are open sourcing it after the project evolved and has been tested in production for a number of years.
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LinkedIn and Twitter Contribute Machine Learning Libraries to Open Source
Twitter’s engineering group, known for various contributions to open source from streaming MapReduce to front-end framework Bootstrap recently announced open sourcing an algorithm that can efficiently recommend content. LinkedIn also open sourced a Machine Learning library of its own, ml-ease. In this article we present the algorithms and what they mean for the open source community.
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Catching up with Neo4j
Neo4j, the open source graph database project has doubled its contributor community in the past six months, which has enabled significant improvements in the product. InfoQ caught up with Emil Efrem after his keynote titled "Graph All the Things" to understand the current and planned features for the open source version of Neo4j.
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Mono Gets Further Performance, Scalability Improvements
Mono 3.8.0 was released last week. It comes with several performance and scalability improvements across the runtime, as well as finishes the Windows port.
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Standard Markdown Becomes Common Markdown then CommonMark
A group of representatives from Stack Exchange, GitHub, Reddit, and others have started to standardize and enhance Markdown under the name Standard Markdown. Their efforts have met the opposition of John Gruber, the syntax’s creator, who does not want to see Markdown used in other projects, so the project was eventually renamed CommonMark.
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Meteor 0.9 Release Brings Controversial Packaging System
Geoff Schmidt -- co-founder of Meteor -- announced this week the release of Meteor 0.9 and and the official Meteor packaging system.
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Git 2.1 Released: What's New
Two-and-a-half months after Git 2.0, a new version of Git has been released. Though a minor update, the list of new features and improvements is large.
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P5.js Brings Creative Coding to the Masses
Lauren McCarthy has released the first public beta of p5.js, a JavaScript library that wants to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators, and beginners. p5.js is an offshoot of the Processing visual programming language, and enables non-programmers to write JavaScript code and create visual projects.
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JavaScript Error Recorder Lets Users Report Bugs in Browser
Bogomil Shopov and Robert Nyman have announced The Usersnap Console Recorder, a browsable JavaScript error- and XHR-logs recorder that is free to use for FOSS projects.
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Google Showcases Android Best Practices by Open-sourcing Google I/O App
Google has recently made available the source code of the 2014 version of the Google I/O app. The primary goal of this is to provide a practical example of best practices for Android app design and development, including essential features to most Android apps, and a customizable template for apps with similar features.
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Powerful RakNet Networking Library Open Sourced by Oculus
The RakNet networking library used in several projects (including Lego Universe, Unity, and Sony Online) has been acquired and released under a modified BSD license by new owner Oculus. This means the library can now be used in a project without cost, offering numerous powerful features.
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BrainBrowser: v2.0 of JavaScript Library for Neuroimaging Released
BrainBrowser -- the JavaScript library for web-based 3D visualization tools aimed at neuroimaging -- has released version 2.0.
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Docker Gets Ignore, Auto-Pauses Containers On Commit
Docker 1.1.0 was recently released, within a month of the 1.0 release, with several features such as .dockerignore, pausing of containers when a commit is made to them, tailing logs and several other improvements.