AccuRev Announces New Source Code Management Version
One of the leading providers of source code management tools, AccuRev, has announced today version 5.2 of their Enterprise Edition. Regardless of the version number, if you are in the SCM market or looking to upgrade, this might merit a closer look.
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Go for Google App Engine Reaches General Availability
Google’s Go programming language is now supported in Google App Engine for all users. Google made the Go SDK available during I/O this year, but most developers have not been able to take advantage of it yet. You can get started here.
Go was created …
Read More →ClojureScript: A Clojure to JavaScript Compiler
Scott Hanselman’s follow-up to his JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web post from earlier this month has been circulating this week. Hanselman talks about both the minification and obfuscation of code, and the use of JavaScript as a target lang…
Read More →WebPutty: Browser Based CSS Editing Made Easy
WebPutty is a hosted, browser-based CSS editor. It displays a preview of your site in one pane and your CSS in the other. As you make changes, you can see how they look in the preview pane with no need to save or refresh your CSS work.
Additionally, …
Read More →Bringing Scala to .Net and Mono
Microsoft is funding a project to make Scala available within the .Net and Mono. The Scala website is running an interview with Miguel Garcia, the developer behind the project.
According to Garcia, you can already use Scala with .Net. There are some …
Read More →TameJs: A JavaScript Extension for Making Event Programming Easier
TameJs is an extension to JavaScript created by the OK Cupid team. Its purpose is to make event programming “easier to write, read, and edit.” It can be used with Node.js or other V8 projects. According to the site: “Tame is not an attempt to dumb do…
Read More →Atlassian’s New Software Testing Product Comes Out of Beta
Atlassian, the company behind the bug tracker JIRA and the wiki Confluence, announced that its newest product, Bonfire, is leaving beta.
Bonfire is a plugin for JIRA and a browser plugin for testing Web applications. You can use it to file bug report…
Read More →Finally: Java 7 Release Candidate Available for Download
Well, here it is: the official Java Development Kit (JDK) 7 release candidate. It’s the first new version of Java in five years, and the first since Oracle took over Sun. It feels like more of a stop-gap release while Oracle readies Java 8, but it’s s…
Read More →New Set-Based Programming Language: Bandicoot
Bandicoot is a new set-based programming language. According to the project site: “The language is similar to general purpose programming languages where you write functions/methods and access data through variables. Though, in Bandicoot, you always m…
Read More →dotjs: A GreaseMonkey Alternative for Power Users
dotjs is an OSX-only Chrome extension that lets you execute locally stored JavaScript files when you navigate to particular websites. You store a .js file in ~/.js and give it a name like google.com.js, and when you navigate to google.com, the script …
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