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Google's Chromium team is in the early stages of building an integrated development environment codenamed Spark http://sdt.bz/66405, built using their recently released scalable web app language, Dart 1.0 http://sdt.bz/66370. The IDE contains a Polymer-based GUI widgets library, free and available on GitHub https://github.com/dart-lang/spark. Google's Francois Beaufort dropped the news today on Google+ https://plus.google.com/+FrancoisBeaufort/posts/giSLiGvA4ye.
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rjmarvin writes:
A new surge of callers posing predominately as Microsoft technicians are attempting and sometimes succeeding in scamming customers http://sdt.bz/66400, convincing them their PCs are infected and directing them to install malware-ridden software or give the callers remote access to the computer. The fraudsters also solicit payment for the fake services rendered. This comes only a year after the FTC cracked down on fake tech support calls, charging six scam operators last October http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/10/pecon.shtm.
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rjmarvin writes:
The new institute http://cmmiinstitute.com/ is dedicated to elevating organizational performance http://sdt.bz/66396 of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI.) Originally housed in Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute, the framework improved and extended its scope beyond software and the mission of the SEI, to help developers be able to rapidly gain relevant capabilities to drive their business goals through an online self-assessment tool as well as new professional credentials for practitioners by the beginning of 2014.
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rjmarvin writes:
Salesforce.com rolled out a completely rewritten CRM platform http://sdt.bz/66395 at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco today. The Salesforce 1 platform has APIs layered throughout to facilitate developer access outside the Salesforce cloud. Salesforce also partnered with HP to unveil the Salesforce Superpod, a section of the website running on HP's enterprise cloud software.
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rjmarvin writes:
While object-oriented programming is often easier to pick up, functional programming is a bit tougher on the uptake. When teaching FP over OOP, there's a clear sequence of how to transform the data. The teachable core of FP starts with a sequence of data, and then goes through Filtering, Assigning, Reducing, Transforming and Slicing, or FARTS http://sdt.bz/66385. Crude? Sure. Effective? Damn straight.
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rjmarvin writes:
Microsoft and Facebook's ongoing development partnership is taking a step towards ending password fatigue http://sdt.bz/66381. The companies http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2013/11/14/facebook-login-comes-to-windows-and-windows-phone.aspx announced https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2013/11/14/microsoft-adds-facebook-login-support-to-windows-8-and-windows-phone-8/ that Microsoft has integrated Facebook login APIs into Windows 8/8.1 and Windows Phone. Developer can now integrate the logins into any app, enabling user login with a single click or tap reusing Facebook credentials stored on the device. The implementation also funnels other app interactions through Facebook, like sharing high scores and events, and playing games against Facebook friends.
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rjmarvin writes:
A team of computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed the GOTCHA (Generating panOptic Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) system that uses inkblots http://sdt.bz/66378 to add extra security to websites after password thefts. According to the scientists, these the randomness of the puzzles eschew algorithmic cracking. When a user creates a password using GOTCHA, their computer will then generate a number of random, multi-colored inkblots for the user to describe with a text phrase. The phrases are stored along with the password in a random order so that when the user returns and enters their password, the inkblots are shown along with their list of descriptive phrases. The user must then match the phrases with the correct inkblot.
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rjmarvin writes:
The five winning apps http://sdt.bz/66376 of the AIG Rugby Innovation Challenge were announced today, each incorporating Opta data streams into rugby apps designed to enhance the fan experience or teach users about the game. The challenge http://aigrugby.challengepost.com/ gave developers access to data feeds like results, stats and xy coordinates to create mobile apps, judged by a panel including New Zealand All Blacks players and entrepreneur Mark Cuban to win cash and promotional prizes. The app challenge shows how the proliferation http://sdt.bz/64209 of Big Data can dramatically change the fan sporting experience.
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rjmarvin writes:
Rumors citing "unnamed sources" have reported that Microsoft has chosen its current COO Kevin Turner http://sdt.bz/66371 as Steve Ballmer's successor...for the next 2-3 years anyway, before he's replaced by rumored frontrunner and former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop. The rumor from Chinese website WPDang http://www.wpdang.com/archives/119513.html comes a week after Microsoft reportedly narrowed down its shortlist for CEO http://sdt.bz/65325 to a select few candidates including Elop and Ford CEO Alan Mulally.
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rjmarvin writes:
At the Android Developer Conference today in San Francisco, Google developer relations tech lead Reto Meier gave a keynote speech on Android KitKat http://sdt.bz/66365, where he talked about the three new categories of Android 4.4 APIs: those that help with design, efficiency and innovation, including Scenes, Transitions and system-wide closed captioning APIs. Meier also detailed KitKat's slimmer memory and hardware changes before ending with some project management advice for developers.
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rjmarvin writes:
Today, the long-awaited release of Visual Studio 2013 brought a host of new features like CodeLens and Browser Link http://sdt.bz/65298, and even the surprise announcement of Visual Studio Online http://sdt.bz/65362, a complementing browser-based IDE for quick Windows Azure builds. But the even more interesting story is how agile development cadence adoption caused Microsoft to change how it works, how it maintains relationships with its partners and customers, and how it views the future of development in its creation http://sdt.bz/65273 of Visual Studio 2013.
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rjmarvin writes:
Microsoft today announced a web-based development environment for app creation to complement Visual Studio 2013, called Visual Studio Online. Microsoft Senior V.P. S. Somasegar told SD Times http://sdt.bz/65362 the new web-based IDE is designed for quick tasks related to building Windows Azure websites and services. Microsoft will be releasing the Visual Studio Online Application Insights service in limited preview http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/visual-studio-2013 to show developers how to deploy and perform in conjunction with Visual Studio 2013's new features http://sdt.bz/65273.
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rjmarvin writes:
As part of a multi-state and federal billing fraud lawsuit based on whistleblower allegations http://sdt.bz/65359, Fortune 500 company CA Technologies agreed to pay a settlement of $11 million. $8 million will go back to the federal government, and the other $3 million will be divided between 9 different states including New York, California and Hawaii. The allegations stem from a 2006 whistleblower lawsuit by former CA employee Ann Marie Shaw, alleging the company violated the False Claims Act through fraudulent billing of hundreds of public agencies on software maintenance renewal contracts from 2001 through 2009.
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rjmarvin writes:
A leaked internal email sent by Google researcher Mark Miller in 2010 reveals a two-pronged strategy http://sdt.bz/65357 to replace the "fundamentally flawed" JavaScript with Google's own programming language, Google Dash, commonly known now as Dart https://www.dartlang.org/. The lengthy email https://gist.github.com/paulmillr/1208618 lays out Google's goal of trying to improve JavaScript, while ultimately supplanting it with Dash as "the lingua franca of Web development on the open Web platform.”
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rjmarvin writes:
The Big Data software company announced it has closed $17 million in financing http://sdt.bz/65352 led by Sutter Hill Ventures with additional contributions from CrunchFund. FoundationDB's architecture looks to combine NoSQL with ACID transactions.
