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Facebook Announces Parse SDK for Apple's tvOS and watchOS 2
Facebook's Parse SDK includes now support for Apple’s tvOS and watchOS 2 will enable building native immersive apps for the Apple TV and the Apple Watch, Facebook’s engineer Nikita Lutsenko writes. Additionally, the new SDK also features integration with Facebook’s recently announced tvOS SDK to make onboarding easier.
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What Impact Will OpenJDK Have on Android Development?
We distill here some of the reactions around the web regarding Google’s adoption of OpenJDK for future Android versions.
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The State of Testing in 2016
The state of testing survey aims to provide insights on a number of aspects of the testing profession. Reviewing things like the adoption of test techniques and practices, test automation, and many of the other challenges that testers are facing today. The survey, made by testers for testers, is organized by Joel Montvelisky from PractiTest together with Lalit Bhamare from Tea-Time with Testers.
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Interview with Tony Tam on the Open API Initiative and Latest Swagger News
After the Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Open API Initiative (OAI) in the beginning of November with an impressive list of founding members, API developers had questions about the role OAI would play driving consensus around standards. Tony Tam addressed some of these questions later in November at the API Strategy and Practice Conference in Austin, Texas.
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Support Ending for the .NET Framework 4.0, 4.5 and 4.5.1 on Tuesday
In less than a week Microsoft will formally end support for versions 4.0, 4.5, and 4.5.1 of the .NET Framework. Users should upgrade to a later version such as the slightly incompatible .NET 4.5.2.
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Test First Approaches With Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development
InfoQ interviewed Gil Zilberfeld about the benefits that a test first approach can bring, the concepts of Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and examples of teams using BDD and TDD, and how you can explore BDD and TDD without doing any coding.
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Swift overtakes Objective-C in TIOBE index
Swift has overtaken Objective-C in the TIOBE index, an internet-sourced rating of programming languages based on a variety of different sources.
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Microsoft Soon to End Support for IE 8, 9 and 10
Microsoft is to stop supporting IE 8, 9 and 10, inviting users to switch to IE 11 or Edge.
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Elixir 1.2 Brings Enhancements, Performance Improvements
José Valim has announced version 1.2 of the dynamic, functional Programming language Elixir. Valim, creator of Elixir, says the release "brings enhancements, bug fixes, performance improvements and more," noting that it requires at least Erlang 18+.
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Rico Mariani on Why Visual Studio Isn’t 64-bit
For a long time now developers have been asking why Visual Studio hasn’t made to switch to 64-bit. Rather than effort or opportunity cost, the primary reason is performance. Rico Mariani of Microsoft explains.
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Linux Community Mourns the Passing of Ian Murdock
Members of the Debian and free software community at-large were shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of Ian Murdock. Murdock, the created started Debian Linux in 1993 and has been an active member of the open source community since.
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V8 4.9 Released with 91% ECMAScript 2015 Support
Google has released version 4.9 of the V8 JavaScript engine, bringing it to 91% completion with ECMAScript 2015.
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Introducing XPlot, a Chart Generation Library for F#
XPlot is a cross-platform data visualization package for F# powered by JavaScript charting libraries Google Charts and Plotly. The XPlot library can be used interactively from F# Interactive, but charts can also be embedded in F# applications and in HTML reports.
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Azure Role-based Access Control Reaches General Availability
In October, 2015 Microsoft announced its Azure Role Based Access Control (RBAC) feature has reached General Availability. The purpose of this feature is to allow organizations finer granularity when providing individuals and groups access to Azure resources and services.
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AVG Plugin Exposes Chrome User Data
Anti-virus software vendor AVG has produced a plugin for Google Chrome that negates that browser's security settings, leaving users at risk of having their information stolen or possibly having their system compromised.