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News
Back To School - September CS MOOCs Wednesday 03 September
If September puts you in the mood for an educational challenge consider joining one of the MOOCs that start this month.
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Duetto Morphs To Cheerp Wednesday 03 September
A C/C++ compiler for the Web has been released. It brings the advantage of bi-directional interoperability between C or C++ code and JavaScript code.
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Self-Running Apps With JXCore Tuesday 02 September
The JXCore fork of Node.js has added the option for you to compile your Node.js apps into self-running apps.
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New Version of OpenCV in Alpha Tuesday 02 September
The OpenCV team has announced OpenCV 3.x. Changes include a move to core plus plugins architecture, a lot of new functionality and optimizations that deliver a substantial speedup.
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Yahoo drops YUI Tuesday 02 September
Yahoo has stopped work on its Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) project because of the rise of technologies such as Node.js.
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Sniff - A Language for Arduino and Pi Monday 01 September
Sniff, a language that is based on Scratch in which you write regular text-based code rather than dragging and dropping blocks to create programs, has reached Beta 8.
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China Plans To Oust Windows Monday 01 September
China is making progress with its own operating system designed to replace Windows, Android and iOS. Should we be worried?
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Spheree The 3D Snow Globe Breakthrough Saturday 30 August
This approach to 3D projection could be the technology we have been waiting for. Multiple pico-projectors are used to create a seamless 3D experience.
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eGenix PyRun 2.0.1 Released Friday 29 August
A new release of PyRun, the open source, one-file, no installation version of Python. has just been released by eGenix.
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Visual Studio Online For Free Friday 29 August
If your team is using Visual Studio Online, which is free for up to five users, any ‘occasional’ contributors will be able to access the online project development environment without paying.
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PHP 5.6.0. Released Friday 29 August
PHP 5.6 brings with it new and improved features including an interactive debugger, and has some backward incompatible changes.
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Google Frees Up More Patents Thursday 28 August
Google has added 152 patents to the list of ones you can copy in your own open-source version and are covered by its OPN Pledge, whereby Google won't sue unless it is sued first.
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Ruby and R for Enigma Thursday 28 August
Two client libraries have been written for accessing the Enigma API which extends the ability to access data, metadate and stats on the government datasets held by Enigma.
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LiquidFun V1.1 Runs In A Browser Thursday 28 August
We reported on Google's LiquidFun V1 earlier in the year as, as much fun as you can have without actual liquids getting involved. Now we have LiquidFun V1.1 and you can have as much fun in a browser.
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The Core
XML in C# - Using XElement Tuesday 02 September
.NET has some really easy-to-use facilities for creating and editing XML. Many of these facilities were introduced to make Linq to XML work better, but you can make use of them in more general situations.
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