News & Features
Saturday, 18 May 2013
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
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Friday, 17 May 2013
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
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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
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Thursday, 16 May 2013
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
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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
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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
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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
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Wednesday, 15 May 2013
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
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Tuesday, 14 May 2013
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
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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
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A low level counterpart language to Lua offers a new way of generating high performance code and compiling domain specific languages for HPC applications
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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
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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
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Monday, 13 May 2013
With support for writing to foreign data sources, federating PostgreSQL servers, enhanced view support, more JSON functions, and faster failover, the beta of PostgreSQL 9.3 has plenty for developers to test
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The latest version of Video.js, the open source JavaScript library designed for working with web video, has changed its licence from LGPLv3 to Apache 2.0 and brings improved performance and better design
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Python leader Guido van Rossum has blessed a proposal to include to include an enumeration type in the language's standard library with the upcoming release, which is expected for February 2014
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Saturday, 11 May 2013
In the week ending 11 May Your next programming language, Debian Wheezy is released, Blender now renders models in cartoon style, hackers gain access to all .edu domains, and Linux is the "benchmark of quality"
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Friday, 10 May 2013
Now offering a speed boost of 5.7 times faster than CPython 2.7, PyPy 2.0 is the latest release of the JIT-compiling Python interpreter available for most x86-based platforms
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The Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications XE 2013 enables developers to use the latest version of the vendor-independent language specification under Xeon Phi coprocessors
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In this edition: PHP releases, Team Foundation Server 2012 Power Tools, CMMN 1.0 gets standardised, a read-eval-print loop for PHP Jelastic integrates with NetBeans, and an MPEG1 decoder written in JavaScript
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Thursday, 09 May 2013
ARM support has arrived for the JIT-compiling Python interpreter, and that includes the Raspberry Pi. Although early days for PyPy on ARM, it appears to be performing well compared to the traditional C-based interpreter
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Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Ubuntu's phone and tablet developments have set Canonical on a path to create a new package format for simpler, single directory, no dependency apps, but some may find the format a little familiar
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Building a product or site and want to be mentored in how to build a healthy open business? Then there's a good chance the Mozilla WebFWD programme is for you as it seeks entrepreneurs and innovators for its fourth round of open education
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Almost a year after the project graduated from the Apache incubator, the graph processing platform's developers have released version 1.0 of Apache Giraph with enhancements to use memory and multicore CPUs more efficiently
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Tuesday, 07 May 2013
Multiple Ruby versions, long-running jobs, event driven I/O, JRuby, Rubinus, and Ruby 2.0 are all part of the 4.0 update to Phusion Passenger, designed to comfortably deploy Ruby and Python applications with Apache and NGINX
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