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Zend Developer Pulse 2013 Survey Emphasises on HTML5, Geolocation and Amazon Web Services
Zend, the company which builds PHP platform has released the results of its annual Developer Pulse 2013 survey and it indicates the growth of HTML5, native apps, Objective C, Java, Geo-location support, Amazon Web Services including general work habits of developers.
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Architectural Changes in JSON.NET 5
Newtonsoft’s JSON.NET has received a pair of architectural updates to make it easier to use in projects that involve third party libraries. The two features are known as DefaultSettings and Extension Data.
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Standard Java API for JSON
JSR-353, the Java API for JSON Processing (JSON-P), has reached final approval ballot this month. JSON-P (similar to JAXP) consists of a Streaming API (similar to StAX) and an Object Model API (similar to DOM). Please note that this API does not include JSON data binding (similar to JAXB), and is unrelated to the more popular JSONP or "JSON with padding".
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Phil Japikse on Telerik DevTools for .NET Q2 2013
Telerik has announced the roadmap for DevTools for .NET Q2 2013 which includes addition of new controls and features to their Ajax, Windows Forms, Reporting, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 product suites.
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Netflix Gives Up Silverlight, Chooses HTML5
Netflix has announced their intent to switch their video player from Silverlight to HTML5, the first implementation of the new player being done in Chrome/Chrome OS, with Windows and Mac OS X following soon.
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JSON Validation Roundup
Create any “flexible” or “extensible” file format and sooner or later a group of developers will start complaining about validation. For JSON, several options are starting to spring up.
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Windows Azure Updated with Hadoop, HTML5/JS, CORS, PhoneGap, Mercurial and Dropbox
The recently released Windows Azure updates include support for Hadoop service, HTML5/JS, CORS, PhoneGap including Mercurial, Dropbox, CodePlex and Bitbucket deployment integration.
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Oracle Updates NetBeans for HTML5
With the latest 7.3 release of NetBeans, Oracle has updated the IDE so developers can more easily build HTML5-based user interfaces for mobile and web applications, with code completion capabilities for HTML, JavaScript, and CSS3, and a new Nashorn-powered JavaScript editor. Netbeans also gains a new stand-alone JPQL editor that allows developers to test JPQL queries directly from the IDE.
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Modern.ie Helps Developers Test Code for Browsers
Microsoft has released modern.ie which enables you to test websites on various versions of IE with a series of tools including tips to build modern sites while supporting old versions of Internet Explorer.
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JavaScript Now First Among Equals on GNOME
The GNOME desktop environment popular on Linux-based systems is making JavaScript its primary language for application development. While other languages will be supported, JavaScript will receive the most support. This controversial decision has sparked debate over the merits of the selection.
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Twitter Open Sources Flight, an Event-based Component Framework
Twitter has open sourced Flight, the JavaScript framework used internally in production to provide functionality for their website.
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Lienzo 1.0: A Scene Graph API In Java For The HTML5 Canvas
Lienzo 1.0 is a new GWT library offering an advanced API over the HTML5 Canvas. AS well as the low level operations already offered by Canvas in GWT, Lienzo adds a rich set of GUI primitives such as shapes, zooming, animations, drag-and-drop, event handling and more
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Yeoman: Modern Workflows for Modern Webapps
Front-end developers should take a note of the release of Yeoman, a front-end development workflow.
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Apache Flex Graduates as TLP, but Its Future Remains Uncertain
ASF recently announced the Apache Flex graduation as a top level project (TLP) after being in incubation for about one year after Adobe entrusted the SDK’s source code, tools and dependencies to ASF.
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Ambient Light and Proximity Enter the DOM
The W3C has introduced a series of APIs that allow developers to interact with a device and a variety of peripherals. Two of these specifications, "Proximity Events" and "Ambient Light Events" have entered their Last Call stages as drafts and in the coming months will enter the Candidate Recommendation stage wherein implementations will begin to appear.