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    Plasma Workspaces to go into feature freeze with version 4.11

    Plasma logo Plasma Workspaces 4.11 is to receive two years of stabilisation updates from its release, under a long-term support (LTS) scheme. KDE applications are not affected by the freeze and more feature releases of the desktop are expected more »

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    Continuous database migration with Liquibase and Flyway

    Continuous database migration with Liquibase and Flyway An application's version-controlled source code is stored in the repository. Why not that of the database? To reproduce arbitrary database states in development, test or production environments, two powerful Java libraries are at hand that can be seamlessly integrated into a build for an agile Continuous Delivery more »

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    Fedora Raspberry Pi remix reborn as Pidora

    Pidora logo Seneca College has released Pidora 18, its Fedora remix optimised for the Raspberry Pi mini-computer. It features a special headless mode that makes it easy to install the distribution over the network more »

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    Location, location, location

    Location, location, location The rapid rise in the number of mobile devices has led to a concomitant rise in the amount of location data available. Proprietary services are emerging to take advantage of that data, but open source has a strong foothold in the form of OpenStreetMap more »

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    Samsung Galaxy S4 already hacked

    Android phone icon Less than a month after the smartphone's commercial launch, Dan Rosenberg found a design flaw in Samsung's secured bootloader that allows arbitrary kernels to be booted even on a locked phone more »

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    Skype's ominous link checking: Facts and speculation

    Skype Listening In icon Our associate's discovery that URLs sent through Skype are then visited by Microsoft has caused quite a stir. A little more information has now emerged and leads to even more questions more »

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    Google Code disables direct file downloads

    Google Code logo Google has announced that it will discontinue the ability for new projects on Google Code to host direct downloads of files. Existing downloads will continue to be available more »

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    Continuous database migration with Liquibase and Flyway

    Continuous database migration with Liquibase and Flyway An application's version-controlled source code is stored in the repository. Why not that of the database? To reproduce arbitrary database states in development, test or production environments, two powerful Java libraries are at hand that can be seamlessly integrated into a build for an agile Continuous Delivery more »

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    Thursday, 23 May 2013

    New Maven plugins for simpler architecture management

    Spanner icon NoPackageCyclesEnforcerRule automatically detects cyclical dependencies between classes from different packages; Macker helps define specific dependencies between packages and automatically verifies those rules more »

    Wednesday, 22 May 2013

    Digia previews "Boot to Qt" platform

    Qt logo Digia is bringing Android's base layer and Qt's UI framework together to make a platform that's aimed at embedded device makers who want a slick user interface on their systems more »

    SQLite gets memory-mapped I/O

    SQLite icon The memory-mapped I/O can potentially double the performance of the embeddable SQL engine but care needs to be taken with its use. Other enhancements make SQLite databases easier to identify and improve error reporting more »

    Tuesday, 21 May 2013

    Zend Framework 2.2 focuses on consistency

    Zend Framework logo A first stable series 2.2 version of the PHP web framework is now available. The new release includes additions such as a new diagnostic feature for ZFTool and supports dynamic DDL queries more »

    Jira 6 adds mobile interface, revamps web interface

    Jira logo The latest version of the Jira issue tracker revamps the web interface, adds new ways of tracking issues, integrates a mobile interface and adds pre-configured workflows for agile developers more »

    Google I/O: How to build battery-efficient apps

    Android Phone development icon At the Google I/O conference, developer Ilya Grigorik gave some advice on how to optimise mobile applications for the maximum energy efficiency and gave an overview of how various mobile radio networks interact with web protocols more »

    HeidiSQL 8.0 arrives with polished user interface

    HeidiSQL logo The latest version of the open source SQL client for Windows brings a query history function, supports search and replace in results and introduces folders that allow users to organise the software's user interface better more »

    Arduino launches Wi-Fi board and ready-to-roll robotics platform

    Arduino logo Arduino has launched a new family of development boards and its first full robotics platform. The Arduino Yún is a Wi-Fi enabled board running Linux and the Arduino Robot is the company's first robotics platform that is fully functional out of the box more »

    Monday, 20 May 2013

    "Mobile-first" Bootstrap 3 is almost ready

    Bootstrap logo The developers of the open source web frontend framework Bootstrap are designing the next version of their software to be adaptable to mobile form factors by default. Development work on Bootstrap 3 is almost complete more »

    Developer Break: Meteor, IDEA, Python, Hadoop and OSLC

    Developer Break In this edition: Meteor goes all WebSockets, IntelliJ IDEA goes all Android, Pythonic progress, development kits for Hadoop, and standards for lifecycle software more »

    Perl 5.18 goes stable

    Perl icon Twelve months and 400,000 lines of code changes have produced the latest version of Perl, 5.18. The headline feature is a reimplementation of hashing to make it truly random more »

    Saturday, 18 May 2013

    The H Roundup - Skype surveillance, Linux exploit & Android Studio

    The H Roundup logo In the week ending 18 May – Microsoft is reading what you type in Skype's chat, an exploit for the Linux kernel is discovered, Google unveils its new IDE for developing Android applications, and the International Space Station is using more Linux more »

    Friday, 17 May 2013

    Firefox 22 beta delivers WebRTC and more

    Firefox Beta Mozilla's new Firefox 22 beta brings two potentially major web technologies - WebRTC and OdinMonkey - to the desktop, aiming for integrated web real-time communications and even better JavaScript performance more »

    Google previews PHP on App Engine

    Google App Engine logo Google is now previewing App Engine support for PHP which will allow PHP developers to make use of Google's PaaS platform and various cloud services more »

    Thursday, 16 May 2013

    Talend 5.3 focused on Hadoop usability

    Talend icon Talend's latest release of its various data integration and big data applications has an eye towards making creating and deploying into a Hadoop cluster simpler more »

    Qt 5.1 enters beta

    Qt logo Qt 5.1 comes a step closer with the release of the first beta of the next version which includes technology previews of Qt for iOS and Android, new controls and layout modules more »

    Android Studio opens its doors

    Android Studio At Google I/O, the company unveiled an early preview of Android Studio, a fully featured, GUI-design-capable IDE that is heavily integrated with Google's Android SDK tools more »

    Fraunhofer FOKUS institute releases Fuzzino fuzzing library

    FOKUS logo To avoid the need to develop new fuzz testing tools, researchers at Fraunhofer FOKUS institute have created the Fuzzino open source fuzzing library that can be used to add fuzzing features to existing test tools more »

    Wednesday, 15 May 2013

    Oracle to change Java version numbers

    Java Security icon With an increase in security updates and a need to schedule non-security changes predictably, Oracle has decided to rework how Java updates get a version number more »

    Tuesday, 14 May 2013

    SpringSource fires up the asynchronous Reactor framework

    SpringSource logo The open source Reactor framework is designed for building asynchronous applications on the Java Virtual Machine. The code is able to process more than 15 million events per second with its non-blocking dispatcher more »

    Deutsche Telekom launches online code vulnerability scanner

    Developer Garden logo The Developer Garden Code Analyzer enables developers to find security vulnerabilities in their web applications and mobile apps. It supports many different languages and is available in three pricing tiers more »

    Terra and Lua offer new high performance computing strategy

    A low level counterpart language to Lua offers a new way of generating high performance code and compiling domain specific languages for HPC applications more »

    Native Android apps now possible with AIDE 2.0

    AIDE logo Integration of the Native Development Kit means that the Android IDE can now be used to develop C/C++ apps for Android devices on Android devices more »

    Dart now compiling in-browser with Dart based Dart compiler

    Now Google's JavaScript alternative can compile itself to JavaScript in the browser on the newly revamped try.dartlang.org which hopes to make the language more accessible to new and curious developers more »

    Go 1.1 brings better performance and a race detector

    Google Go logo The latest version of Google's Go programming language includes major performance improvements, a race detector for finding memory synchronisation problems and new functionality in the standard library of the language more »

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