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Daily Dose: Big Data, Big Competition: LexisNexis To Release Hadoop Competitor

LexisNexis is set to launch open source data processing tools that supposedly outdo Hadoop, the current darling of the Big Data world. The new product line is...

0 replies - 16255 views - 06/16/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Microsoft Adding More Support for C++

In a research paper published by Google last week, C++ was found to be the best-performing programming language in the market, trumping Java, Scala, and its...

0 replies - 13563 views - 06/15/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Spring Jumps Into M2 of Version 3.1.0

 Spring, the open source application framework, reached its "second and final milestone", and version 3.1 is now available. The new features...

0 replies - 16561 views - 06/10/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: First Milestone Of Grails 1.4 Released

Grails users will be happy to see that Grails 1.4, the first milestone of the open source framework, was released this week, featuring major changes such as:-...

0 replies - 8676 views - 06/08/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Microsoft Bringing "Ops" into Visual Studio (vNext)

In this week's keynote speech at Tech*Ed North America 2011, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jason Zander announced the new features for "vNext",...

0 replies - 5246 views - 05/18/11 by Jim Moscater in News

RavenDB: Safe by default design – it works!

One of the things that I really tried to do with RavenDB is to make sure that it is safe by default, which means that it will automatically detect common...

0 replies - 3700 views - 04/17/11 by Ayende Rahien in News

How to enrich lawyers

It seems that today Google patented the Doodles, the special logos that appear on its homepage in occasion of events such as anniversaries of inventions or of...

1 replies - 3045 views - 03/22/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Daily Dose: HTML5 Goes Mobile: The-M-Project Open Source Framework

Tired of constantly adapting your code to the latest smartphone OS? The-M-Project might be the solution you've been waiting for. A new open source HTML5...

0 replies - 25661 views - 02/23/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

January 2011 Update for Windows Phone 7 dev tools - New Emulator & Utilities

The long awaited update for the official developer tools is out. And although the actual update for the phone itself is not out, you can already see what the...

0 replies - 10347 views - 02/04/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Making of - The first version of the presentation layer for Windows Phone 7

There are tons of question floating around the Internet of users asking how to take screenshots from a Windows Phone 7 application or how to capture the system...

0 replies - 6051 views - 01/25/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

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0 replies - 1936 views - 01/18/11 by Snippets Manager in Uncategorized

So you want to get that TFS-powered project from CodePlex...

CodePlex currently hosts 19845 projects. If you've used CodePlex before, then you probably know that you can get the pre-built library/executable/package if...

0 replies - 8804 views - 01/13/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

.NET Developer Tools - What you should (could) have in your toolbox

Scott Hansleman has a pretty decent list of software tools that might be useful for developer and regular users in their daily life. My intention with this...

2 replies - 17117 views - 12/26/10 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Daily Dose - ICEfaces 2.0 - A Wintery, JSF 2-based Release

The ICEfaces team has delivered the major version 2.0 this week and as the number implies, it is built on top of the relatively new JSF 2.0 spec.  The new...

0 replies - 26311 views - 12/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - The Silverlight 5 Plan

At Microsoft's developer-focused Silverlight Firestarter event, they laid out the roadmap for the next version of Silverlight - an RIA platform that is now...

0 replies - 17777 views - 12/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose