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50 Spots left for QConSF; Google’s Dart Keynote Added
The 5th annual QCon San Francisco is taking place just 3 weeks from now, the chance to register is quickly approaching. Registration is double last year's at this time! We only have 50 tickets left so book early to make sure you get a spot.
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Hadoop-as-a-Service from Amazon, Cloudera, Microsoft and IBM
Companies rely more and more on big data when making their decisions. Amazon, Cloudera, and IBM have announced their Hadoop-as-a-Service offerings, while Microsoft promises to do the same next year.
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Practical SOA for Solution Architects
A new WSO2 white paper entitled “Practical SOA for the Solution Architect" describes a practical approach to designing and implementing a SOA system while realizing the full SOA benefits.
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Building Visual Studio Extensions with Roslyn
Yesterday we talked about the Roslyn Compiler and Workspace APIs. Today we take a look at the Roslyn Service APIs and how they can be used to extend Visual Studio. The extensions we will look at today are Code Issue, Quick Fix, Code Refactoring, Completion Provider, and Outliner.
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Microsoft Unveils its Compiler as a Service
Early reports suggested that the Rosyln project would just be a better runtime-accessible compiler and REPL-style interpreter, but it turns out that it is much more ambitious. By opening up the entire compiler pipeline Microsoft hopes that developers will create a wide variety of tools at many levels.
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Cassandra 1.0.0. Is Ready for the Enterprise
Apache has announced the release of Cassandra 1.0.0, the first major milestone of the distributed column-based data store coming with data compression and several performance improvements and optimizations.
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'Denali' No More: SQL Server 2012 Announced, Focuses on BI and Big Data
Microsoft announced that the next version of SQL Server, known by the codename "Denali", will be called SQL Server 2012. It will feature the big data capabilities of Apache Hadoop and Power View, a touch-based business intelligence tool.
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Stop Thinking During Refactoring
Refactoring is a technique for changing the internal structure of the program without changing its external behavior. On the face of it, refactoring seems to involve a good amount of thinking, however, too much thinking could be detrimental as well.
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Android 4.0 Unifies Tablets and Phones with New Features
Android 4.0 runs both on tablets and phones, having new features for UI, communication, sharing, media, connectivity, input types and enterprise.
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Does NoSQL have an impact on REST?
Statelessness has been a central principle of RESTful design and implementation. However, with the advent of NoSQL implementations, Ganesh Prasad wonders whether that is no longer true and suggests that REST+NoSQL offers a way to remove this restriction, providing stateful sessions, scalability and fault tolerance.
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Usergrid: a New Open Source Platform for Mobile and Rich Client Applications
Last week, Ed Anuff, founder of Usergrid, announced the first source code release available on GitHub. Usergrid is a comprehensive platform stack for mobile and rich client applications. It can be deployed as a highly scalable Cloud service, it is built in Java and runs on top of Cassandra.
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New in Google Cloud: SDK 1.5.5, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Prediction API and Premier Accounts
Google Cloud Services has announced a new version of the App Engine SDK (1.5.5) -the frontend request deadline has been raised from 30 sec. to 60 sec., Python 2.7-, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage and Prediction API are out of Code Labs, and Premier Accounts.
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PojoSR brings Service Registry to Java
Karl Pauls has released PojoSR 0.1.6, a service registry that enables OSGi bundles to be loaded and services wired together without the need for a full OSGi runtime stack. PojoSR differs from the full OSGi platform in that it does not use nested classloaders; so badly behaved libraries like Hibernate – which are often tripped up in a structured OSGi environment – continue to work as normal.
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HealthVault Update Continues Microsoft Investment in Electronic Medical Records
Microsoft HealthVault, the web-based solution launched in 2007 for electronic medical records, recently released new capabilities for end users and platform developers. This release introduced incremental changes to a maturing offering in this emerging area of healthcare IT.
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A Tribute to Steve Jobs' Contribution to Software Engineering
During the 12 years Steve spent away from Apple, he brought to market a number of software technologies and paradigms that are at the foundation of modern computing, languages and software engineering practices. At InfoQ, we would like to pay our tribute to Steve through a lesser known, but nonetheless probably as significant contribution to our lives.