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Salesforce erects Shield for better enterprise-app security
Security has been an increasingly dominant theme in the enterprise software chorus in recent months, and on Tuesday Salesforce added a new voice to the mix with Shield, a set of platform services designed to help companies build secure apps.
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JavaScript rules the school, but C++ climbs in popularity
C++ is making big gains in the monthly Tiobe language popularity index, while JavaScript continues to rule the day.
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Oracle unwraps VM VirtualBox 5.0 with focus on security
After entering beta roughly three months ago, Oracle's VM VirtualBox 5.0 virtualization software is now generally available, offering faster performance and better security.
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How Instagram spots a trend
With a user base of over 200 million people, who collectively post 70 million new photographs and short videos a day, Instagram provides a timely view of events around the world that people are interested in. But how does the service spot emerging trends while they are still on the rise?
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Sencha's new framework helps enterprises build Web apps for all devices
Sencha's Ext JS 6 Javascript framework is now generally available, and with it comes the ability to build Web apps for desktops, tablets and smartphones. But getting the user interface right isn't always easy.
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Latest Windows 10 SDK preview helps developers build cooler photo apps
Microsoft has added a handful of image- and photography-related features in a new version of the Windows 10 SDK. It, along with the OS itself, will become generally available at the end of the month.
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Rust 1.1 speeds compiling, adds new APIs
The open source Rust systems language, developed by Mozilla Research with an emphasis on speed and thread safety, has been upgraded with a 1.1 release highlighted by improved compilation.
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Google Cloud Platform provides a home for cloud code
Users of Google's Cloud Platform services now have a convenient place to stash all the source code powering their cloud-based applications
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GitHub updates text editing for the modern era
Plotting to lure developers away from their much-loved but decades-old Emacs and Vi text editors, online code repository GitHub has officially launched Atom, touting it as the text editor for the modern era.
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Unity CEO has game development platform's bugs on his mind
Gaming platform company Unity Technologies is doubling down on improving its software quality, and letting developers know what it has planned for the future with a new public roadmap.
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Eclipse's latest release train carries Docker, Java technologies
Along with the arrival of summer, late June marks the arrival of the Eclipse Foundation's annual release train, with the open source tooling organization simultaneously releasing a multitude of technologies. This year's release train, dubbed Mars, is the 10th in the series. It improves the organization's stalwart Java IDE and adds Docker accommodations.
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Facebook open-sources IDE based on GitHub Atom
Facebook has begun opening up source code for its Nuclide IDE, which is designed to offer a unified experience for Web and native mobile development.
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MEAN vs. LAMP for the future of programming
The transition from cutting-edge curiosity to practical workhorse is not one that many technologies make. Yesterday's precocious upstarts often fail to live up to their Version 0.1 promise -- not so for the technologies that make up the fiercely acronymized MEAN stack.
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Red Hat takes the reins of OpenJDK 7
Red Hat is taking over stewardship of the OpenJDK 7 project, at the moment a generation behind the current release of Java.
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