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Apple Introduces iOS 7.0.3 To Remove iOS 7 Bugs

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Not long ago, apple introduced its latest mobile operating system iOS 7 but it accompanied many bugs too. The biggest problem faced by iPhone and iPad users was battery drainage issue. This is not something that has happened for the first time with iOS update. In previous version of iOS similar bugs were found and later removed by Apple. Working on the same improvement policy, Apple has come up

Hadoop 2 adds YARN support

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Hadoop will now natively support Apache’s framework for job scheduling and cluster resource management. With Hadoop’s 2.2.0 version, the first stable release offered on the 2.x build, the platform sees YARN sit on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Filing System) to offer a large-scale, distributed operating system for applications dealing with big data, thus enabling simultaneous processing for

NetBeans 7.4 Released

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NetBeans IDE 7.4 is now available, with its HTML5 development support implemented in version 7.3, now expanded to Java EE and PHP applications, as well as support for mobile web development on Android and iOS. NetBeans IDE allows you to quickly and easily develop Java desktop, mobile and web applications as well as HTML5 applications with HTML, JavaScript and CSS. The IDE also provides a variety

Developer Tips: Bypass JavaScript’s Garbage Collections

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According to Google performance expert Colt McAnlis, one of the direst problems web developers face today is JavaScript performance. JavaScript parsing engines use GC (garbage collection) for memory management, a method that allows programmers make sure memory no longer used by a program is sent back to the operating system, and though that may be helpful, memory management code in languages like

5 new features being introduced in OS X Mavericks

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Apple is coming up with a new version of its OS Mavericks and it is called OS X Mavericks. There are many updates that will be seen in this new OS version but we are going to give you hints about some of the latest features that are going to be added in OS X Mavericks. 1 – iBooks If you have been an Apple user since a long time then you already know that to use iBooks, you had to be on iOS

Eclipse support added to Google Apps Script

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Aiming to help developers riddled by having to work on the Google Web page editor when using Google Apps Script, Google has now added support for a full-featured IDE in the form of an Eclipse plugin. The Eclipse editor will enable users to work on bigger than average scripts, implementing features that offer Google Drive syncing, as well as collaborative group implementation. The editor’s

Programming Tips: Five Tools to Professional Coding

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When shifting from coding as a hobby to full-fledged professional developing, here’s a set of tools one comes to appreciate. Discipline: Focusing on the task at hand and delivering it in a timely fashion and at an optimal state, becomes a major advantage one seeks in a professional coder, as opposed to a hobbyist who may write ingenious code but in an unreliable fashion. Priorities: Picking up one

Teaching Initiatives Bring Coding to Forefront

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A couple of teaching initiatives have made headlines, with non-profit Code.org aiming to reach 10 million US students with its Hour of Code program, while General Assembly is offering free online web development courses through Dash. Code.org is aiming to celebrate this year’s Computer Science Education week (Dec. 9-15) by reaching millions of students in 50 different States of the USA, spreading

Programming Tips: 4 Steps to Better Code

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Here are four tips that will help your code automatically get better. a. Use Small Methods: This tends to be the most difficult part in coding, but it’s arguably the most important as well. Keeping your methods small, helps maintain tidier code, with more descriptive method names and fewer side effects. Your code will be easier to run through and that will help you maintain a wider view of your