News & Features
Thursday, 23 May 2013
NoPackageCyclesEnforcerRule automatically detects cyclical dependencies between classes from different packages; Macker helps define specific dependencies between packages and automatically verifies those rules
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013
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
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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
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Monday, 20 May 2013
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
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In this edition: Meteor goes all WebSockets, IntelliJ IDEA goes all Android, Pythonic progress, development kits for Hadoop, and standards for lifecycle software
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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
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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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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
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